President Joe Biden’s campaign has tapped two of Hollywood’s biggest celebrities, Julia Roberts and George Clooney, to appear at a fundraising event in Los Angeles next month.
NBC News reported Sunday that Clooney and Roberts will join former President Barack Obama at a donor event on the West Coast in the coming weeks, while Bill and Hillary Clinton will headline a similar event on the East Coast in early summer.
The Biden campaign, which raised a record $26 million when it booked Radio City Music Hall for an event with Biden, Obama and Bill Clinton in late March, is using Democratic hitters and A-list stars to maintain its financial advantage over former President Donald Trump’s campaign.
“We’re under no illusions that it’s not going to close the gap,” a Biden campaign adviser told the network.
Biden’s campaign ended March with $85.5 million in cash on hand, after raising $43.8 million that month, nearly triple what Trump’s campaign raised.
President Joe Biden’s campaign (center) plans two more splashy fundraisers in the coming weeks that will again feature help from former President Barack Obama (left) and former President Bill Clinton (right). They appeared at a Radio City Music Hall event in March.
Hollywood greats George Clooney (left) and Julia Roberts (right) will appear alongside President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama at a Los Angeles fundraiser in June.
When donations to the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee were taken into account, the Democratic lead was $131 million over $67 million.
But after Biden’s fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall, Trump decided to match it with his own high-dollar fundraiser held at the Palm Beach home of billionaire investor John Paulson.
While it lacked the star power of former presidents, the Trump campaign said it essentially doubled what Biden’s campaign earned, reportedly bringing $50.5 million into the campaign’s coffers.
That figure has not yet been supported by Federal Election Commission filings, which have a mid-July deadline.
Shortly after, Trump went to Atlanta for a major fundraiser in the upscale Buckhead neighborhood, featuring former U.S. senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, the state’s lieutenant governor, Burt Jones, and fellow Republican mega-donor and Home Depot. -founder Bernie Marcus.
That fundraiser, along with another held in Orlando, raised $15 million, a campaign official said. told Fox News.
More recently, Trump came under fire for allegedly telling a group of oil and gas executives that he would repeal Biden’s environmental regulations, suggesting they would raise $1 billion for his campaign for the courtesy.
Former Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton will join her husband, former President Bill Clinton, and President Joe Biden for a fundraising event on the East Coast early this summer, NBC News reported Sunday.
The Washington Post reported that the conversation occurred at an “energy roundtable” in mid-April at Mar-a-Lago.
In March, CNBC reported about some of Trump’s donor problems, including the fact that small donations have slowed.
In 2023, Trump’s campaign raised 62.5 percent less cash from small donations than in 2019, the year before the presidential election.
But in recent weeks, Trump has used his highly publicized Stormy Daniels case to maintain silence in New York to send out a series of fundraising appeals, which could help lure small donors back into the fold.
The RNC told NBC it expects its April bill with the Trump campaign to be $76 million combined.
The Biden campaign is expected to release its fundraising totals as the May 20 deadline approaches.