29 November 2024,   18:41
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Obama, Biden Reunion fundraisers raise $11 million

Barack Obama and Joe Biden reunited for their first joint appearances of the 2020 presidential campaign, hosting virtual fundraisers that the Biden campaign said brought in $11 million.

About $7.6 million was raised at an event with 175,000 grassroots donors. A smaller, more expensive event raised about $3.4 million, the campaign said.

It’s the first time the former president has raised money for Biden and just his second public appearance on his former vice president’s behalf. He released an endorsement video in April after Biden’s opponents dropped out of the Democratic primary race.

“We can’t be complacent or smug or sense that somehow it’s so obvious that this president hasn’t done a good job because, look, he won once”, - Obama said of successor Donald Trump’s victory nearly four years ago.

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