Obama, George Clooney, and Julia Roberts to host LA fundraiser for Joe Biden
President Biden's campaign will use longtime Hollywood stars George Clooney and Julia Roberts to fundraise at an upcoming Los Angeles event and beyond.
The actors will be joined by former President Barack Obama for the mid-June event that is reported to include other top celebrity guests and surrogates for Biden.
The fundraiser is said to be in a style similar to a March 2024 New York City fundraiser that showcased Obama, Biden, and Bill Clinton in a discussion with talk show host Stephen Colbert. The Radio City Music Hall event took in a reported $26 million, according to NBC News.
Clooney and Roberts will be featured in a contest for supporters, CNN reported, that will run across the Biden campaign's social media channels. At the same time, the two will appear in social media posts and digital ads promoting Biden for president.
In addition, the two will lend their names to emails and text message fundraising for the campaign.
Campaign officials reportedly said that the event is primarily aimed at fending off fundraising surges from President Trump that will likely only increase now that he is the Republican candidate.
There have also been reports that Clinton and wife Hillary will take part in a fundraiser in the Eastern time zone early in the summer on behalf of President Biden. A source who was labeled as familiar with the plans gave the scoop to NBC News.
'We’re not under any illusion that he’s not going to narrow the gap.'
Obama, Clinton and Biden take the stage in NYC. \ud83d\ude2c— (@)
CNN reported that Biden's most recent campaign stops took in $10 million in 24 hours during a trip to the West Coast, which included two stops in California's Bay Area and two fundraisers in Seattle, Washington.
The Biden campaign currently holds a financial advantage over Trump, which many left-leaning outlets have stressed, and ended March 2024 with over $85 million in cash. Its totals were more than doubled in that month alone. Adding in the Democratic National Committee numbers, the Biden train is carrying about $131 million.
The Trump campaign, on the other hand, has just over half of that, with a reported $67 million in cash.
The Biden team is reportedly not counting its chickens before they hatch, though. Trump's cashflow is expected to accelerate, especially after recent events, including a $50 million fundraiser in Florida, with officials claiming they took in $76 million during the entire month.
"We're not under any illusion that he's not going to narrow the gap," a Biden campaign adviser told NBC News. "But what he can't get back is the time we've had with all this money to do what we've done."
Biden's campaign communications director, Michael Taylor, recently stated that his team has been making significant re-election efforts in battleground states and isn't concerned with the Trump campaign's bottom line.
"I'll take that over whatever dollar figure Trump and his team actually end up filing in their report," he said.
City of Wildwood, NJ spokesperson says between 80,000 and 100,000 attended Trump rally Saturday— (@)
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Julia Roberts will present Dr. Anthony Fauci with amfAR award for courage
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House's top health expert on the coronavirus, will receive an award presented by actress Julia Roberts for "courage" in the fight against AIDS.
Roberts, known for hit roles in "Pretty Woman" and "Erin Brockovich," will present Fauci with amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research's Award of Courage, during a virtual "A Gala for Our Time" event on March 4, People magazine reported Thursday. The video presentation of the award was pre-recorded and excerpts from the video were published by People.
""There's no one more deserving. You've been tireless and true for all of us and I just want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart," Roberts reportedly tells Fauci.
"Thank you so much Julia, those are such very kind words, I really do appreciate them. Coming from you, that really means a lot to me," Fauci says before thanking the "unsung heroes" of the COVID-19 health crisis.
Actress Glenn Close will also be honored with an award presented by Bette Midler.
amfAR is thrilled to honor Dr. Anthony Fauci and @GlennClose with the amfAR Award of Courage, presented by… https://t.co/JtkMtKpk4p— amfAR (@amfAR)1614273413.0
"Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. is director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, where he oversees an extensive research portfolio focused on infectious and immune-mediated diseases," amfAR states on its website. "As the long-time chief of the NIAID Laboratory of Immunoregulation, Dr. Fauci has made many seminal contributions in basic and clinical research and is one of the world's most cited biomedical scientists. He was one of the principal architects of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a program that has saved millions of lives throughout the developing world."
A Gala for Our Time will be amfAR's first virtual fundraising gala for the amfAR Fund to Fight COVID-19, which supports efforts to develop effective treatments for the coronavirus. The virtual event will be free for those who wish to register to view it and will feature numerous celebrity appearances and performances by Kelly Clarkson, Ava Max and Rita Ora.
According to People magazine, amfAR presents its award of Courage to individuals who have demonstrated a commitment to important social and humanitarian causes, particularly to amfAR and the global HIV/AIDS response.
Roberts has previously called Fauci her "personal hero."
At the #PassTheMic campaign last May, during which celebrities, health experts, and policy makers spoke about the need for a global response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Roberts spoke to Fauci, referring to him as "maybe the coolest man on the planet right now."
"Oh, this is such a thrill," Roberts told Fauci. "This is a thrill for me because there are very few experts of anything in the world and you truly have emerged as a personal hero for me. Just to have this little corner of your time for us is such a joy."
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