The Democratic leader is helping his party money-up…..
Ticket prices for Monday’s event are $100,000, $50,000 and $36,500.
Biden spoke virtually at his first DNC fundraiser as president late last month as Democrats began ramping up efforts to build their war chest for the 2022 midterm elections. Losing control of either the Senate or House in 2022 would be a blow to the president’s agenda, though historically the party in power does suffer losses during the midterms.
“The DNC is going to need you, because here’s the deal: We won in 2020 as a unified party, and we need to stay unified and keep doing the big consequential things,” Biden said at the June 28 event. “If we make the right decisions in the next four years, in 50 years, people will look back and say this was the moment that America won the future. But we can’t do it without you.”
The DNC has raised $90.9 million so far this year, more than it did in the entire year of 2017, and raised $14.4 million in June, the largest off-year June fundraising ever, according to a DNC spokesperson. The DNC and its joint fundraising committee, the Democratic Grassroots Victory Fund, had $67.6 million cash on hand at the end of June. But the Republican National Committee outraised the DNC in June….