What a haul. On the same day that he made his first campaign appearance with Barack Obama, Joe Biden’s campaign announced the fundraiser brought in more money than any events over the last year.
NEWS: Biden campaign now says today's grassroots fundraiser w/ @BarackObama raised over $11 million in total
By far the most lucrative fundraising event for Biden this cycle (by more than $5 million) https://t.co/XrlTXHFOXk
— Johnny Verhovek (@JTHVerhovek) June 23, 2020
The fundraising total was a blow to the Trump campaign, who touted earlier in the night that their Tulsa rally brought in more money than Biden’s fundraiser.
Shortly after the Trump campaign touted $10 million raised on the weekend of Trump's Tulsa rally, declaring victory based on early reports that Biden's fundraiser with Obama raised $7.6 million, Biden spox now says the campaign raised $11 million. pic.twitter.com/rhdKwM58ve
— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) June 23, 2020
Welcome to the NFL, @parscale. https://t.co/hYQnz5c9Oh
— TJ Ducklo (@TDucklo) June 24, 2020
During the virtual fundraiser, Obama also had his strongest and most direct criticism of the Trump administration (watch above). Here’s part of what the former president said:
“What we have seen over the last couple of years is a White House enabled by Republicans in Congress and a media structure that supports them that has not just differed in terms of policy but has gone at the very foundation of who we are and who we should be. That suggests facts don’t matter, science doesn’t matter, that suggests that a deadly disease is fake news. That sees the Justice Department as simply as an extension, an arm of the personal concerns of the president. That actively promotes division and considers some people in this country more real as Americans than others. That we haven’t seen out of the White House in a long time.”
This comes as a new poll gives Biden a commanding lead over Trump. As The New York Times writes, something especially interesting to note about this poll, “the former vice president has also drawn even with Mr. Trump among male voters, whites and people in middle age and older — groups that have typically been the backbones of Republican electoral success, including Mr. Trump’s in 2016.”
Joe Biden has taken a commanding, 14-point lead over President Trump in the 2020 race, according to a new poll of registered voters by The New York Times and Siena College https://t.co/vBwC7OGUbk
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 24, 2020
Biden has a 39 point lead among white college educated women. Hillary won that group by only 7 points.