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What is the best collective noun to use in describing a gathering of former and current Democrat presidents? The world might be about to find out because a first-of-its-kind fundraiser is being mooted to benefit President Joe Biden, with the 2024 presidential race aspirant destined to share a stage with predecessors Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. At least, that is the plan, an NBC News report details.

To juice enthusiasm and donations for its 77-year-old candidate, the Joe Biden presidential campaign thought it would be a good idea to bring together two people who aren’t Joe Biden. Former president Barack Obama teamed up with actor George Clooney on Tuesday for an online conversation that doubled as a fundraiser for the Biden campaign. The price of admission to this chummy two-hander started at $250 and topped out at $250,000. Obama and Clooney reportedly talked about Biden’s empathy and decency, while highlighting his decades of experience as a senator, according to Deadline. They also bashed the Trump administration for...

Former President Obama and actor George Clooney will participate in a virtual conversation and fundraiser for presumptive presidential nominee Joe Biden’s campaign, according to two sources with knowledge of the event. The event, set to take place late Tuesday afternoon, will raise money for the Biden campaign and the Democratic National Committee with tickets starting at $250 and going all the way up to $250,000, the sources said. Obama helped raise more than $11 million for his former vice president in a highly anticipated kick off fundraiser last month. He is also expected to headline other events in the remaining...

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden quoted Mao Zedong, the former communist leader of China, during a virtual fundraiser on Monday night. “We’ve got to get real economic relief into women’s hands now,” Biden said, before telling people on the call that he wanted to cite “an old Chinese proverb.” “Women hold up half the sky,” Biden said. The quote was first presented by Mao in a bid to reinforce supposed government support for equality between men and women. Mao’s rule resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of Chinese due to purges and disastrous policies. The Biden campaign...

Barack Obama was the star attraction at Joe Biden’s virtual fundraiser yesterday. In financial terms, the event was ( highly successful). More than 175,000 people donated a total of $7.6 million, according to the Biden campaign. In the daily Wall Street Journal Washington bureau email this morning, Ken Thomas adds that a separate component of the event for high-dollar donors raised $3.4 million for an overall haul of $11 million for the event. The latter event was closed to the media. Trump campaign director of strategic communications Marc Lotter plucked a highlight from Biden’s remarks even though NPR reports in...

Joe Biden's campaign canceled a fundraiser that it had scheduled with a top lawyer from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Andrew Weissmann, a former Department of Justice lawyer who had the second-most senior position in the Mueller team, was scheduled to host a "fireside chat" for a June 2 event benefiting the former vice president and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. But according to the Wall Street Journal, the event was canceled shortly after it was planned. After the planned event was revealed last week, President Trump's campaign went on the attack, arguing that...

A fundraiser for Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign said he is no longer supporting the former vice president's White House bid — and predicted that others may follow suit. Tom McInerney, a San Francisco-based attorney who was a lead bundler for former President Barack Obama, told CNBC he informed Biden's team of his decision on June 20. The news of his break comes one day after Biden delivered an uneven debate performance that provoked new doubts about his candidacy and turned a spotlight back on his controversial statements and past policy positions on civil rights and abortion. “I had actually let...

Former Vice President Joe Biden has lost the support of San Francisco-based attorney Tom McInerney, who happens to be one of the campaign's largest fundraisers. According to CNBC, McInerney told the campaign on June 20th that he would no longer help Biden fundraise. He was the first fundraiser to public pull support for Biden after the former vice president made controversial comments about working with segregationists and suddenly flip-flopping on appealing the Hyde Amendment, which bars federal funding for most abortions. He eventually said he was against the law. "At least there was some civility. We got things done. We...

Former Vice President Joe Biden, who is under fire for praising segregationists, lied about his stance on busing to desegregate public schools again on Thursday. “I never, never, never opposed voluntary busing,” Biden told an audience gathered in Chicago, Illinois. The statement, however, is in direct contradiction to Biden’s more than 40-year career in public office. “I oppose busing,” Biden told a local Delaware newspaper in 1975. “It’s an asinine concept, the utility of which has never been proven to me… I’ve gotten to the point where I think our only recourse to eliminate busing may be a constitutional amendment.”...

A fundraiser for Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign said he is no longer supporting the former vice president's White House bid — and predicted that others may follow suit. Tom McInerney, a San Francisco-based attorney who was a lead bundler for former President Barack Obama, told CNBC he informed Biden's team of his decision on June 20. The news of his break comes one day after Biden delivered an uneven debate performance that provoked new doubts about his candidacy and turned a spotlight back on his controversial statements and past policy positions on civil rights and abortion.