With Help From Barack Obama, Joe Biden Has His Most Lucrative Fundraiser

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.

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.

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.”

Biden has a 39 point lead among white college educated women. Hillary won that group by only 7 points.