President Joe Biden continues to thin connected his predecessors to snag grounds fundraising hauls – this clip relying connected Bill and Hillary Clinton to people $8 cardinal successful leafy bluish Virginia.
Biden, 81, and archetypal woman Jill Biden motorcaded to a fundraiser Tuesday evening that was revealed to beryllium astatine the location of erstwhile politician and Democratic National Committee seat Terry McAuliffe.
On manus were erstwhile President Bill Clinton and woman Hillary Clinton, who served arsenic caput of authorities during the Obama-Biden medication and whose unsuccessful 2016 statesmanlike run came aft Biden stepped speech and decided not to situation her.
The backyard fundraiser had 450 attendees, making it the highest grossing backyard bash successful the past of the Democratic Party, according to the Biden camp.
President Joe Biden hauled successful $8m astatine a Virginia fundraiser connected a time helium took actions that could springiness citizenship to 500,000 migrants
It featured remarks by McAuliffe and the different apical notables, and was a invited alleviation for Biden from the PR messiness that followed his $30 cardinal Hollywood fundraiser successful LA with erstwhile President Obama.
In some instances, Biden relied connected his younger predecessors (Obama is 62 and Clinton is 77) to assistance him soak up donations from apical Democratic donors.
Video of Obama leading Biden offstage aft a 30-minute interrogation with speech big Jimmy Kimmel went viral, aft the erstwhile president grabbed a 'frozen' Obama who was taking successful applause aft the lawsuit and guided him disconnected stage.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre blasted what she called 'cheap fakes' of unaltered video clips showing officials guiding the president, accusing rivals of using exertion to tally down Biden.
When DailyMail.com asked her Monday astir Biden and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni guiding him aft events, Jean-Pierre pointed to his agelong narration with Obama.
Former President Bill Clinton and erstwhile Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke astatine the event
Hillary Clinton won the Democratic information successful 2016 erstwhile Biden stepped aside, lone to suffer to Donald Trump
Former President Barack Obama guided Biden disconnected signifier pursuing a large bucks fundraiser successful Los Angeles
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tore into videos she called 'cheap fakes' that showed officials including Barack Obama guiding President Biden disconnected stage
On Saturday, video of erstwhile President Barack Obama reaching for Biden's manus and seemingly guiding the 81-year-old Commander-in-Chief disconnected the signifier astatine a Los Angeles fundraiser went viral.
'Let's not forget: President Obama, President Biden person a relationship. They are friends. They're similar family. And I deliberation that's what you saw,' she said, successful notation to video aft a $30 cardinal fundraiser wherever Biden stood stationary for respective seconds portion the assemblage applauded astatine the extremity of the lawsuit earlier Obama grabbed him by the limb and led him disconnected stage,' she said.
It came connected a time erstwhile Biden celebrated a caller enforcement enactment that could bring citizenship to 500,000 migrants who came present illegally but joined U.S. citizens. He besides took actions to bolster 'DREAMers' brought present by their parents illegally erstwhile they were children who got peculiar presumption nether the Obama administration.
Biden brought on large guns from the White House for the lawsuit including main of unit Jeff Zients, and advisors Bruce Reed and Steve Ricchetti.
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