Joe Biden, along with Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, collected $25 million in donations: a record. Donald Trump, on the other hand, has problems on the financial front. What does this say about the upcoming election?
New York. Maybe they weren’t exactly the images Joe Biden’s campaign team wanted. When Air Force One landed at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport on Thursday afternoon, Barack Obama casually strolled down the gangway next to the somewhat stiff Biden. The 62-year-old Obama and the 81-year-old Biden: They once stood side by side in the administration of Obama, one of the youngest presidents of the USA. Biden is the oldest.
And he relied on Obama’s charisma on Thursday. The ex-president had repeatedly expressed his skepticism about Biden’s campaign strategy in recent weeks; on Thursday he turned that aside. For an event that had been touted as “historic.” Three presidents on one stage: In addition to Obama, Bill Clinton also came to New York to collect donations for Biden. It was a high-profile appearance for Biden, whose campaign team had recently focused primarily on social media content. A ticket for the evening at the Radio City Music Hall in Rockefeller Center cost between $225 and $500,000, and the campaign raised $25 million.
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