Barack Obama comes back into the frey to help his former wingman …..
The two have been here before….
The Biden campaign has leaned on former President Barack Obama to help in its fundraising push, raising nearly $4 million from appeals geared toward grassroots donors, CNN has learned.
The main effort – a contest to meet Obama and President Joe Biden – raked in $2.6 million for the campaign, marking its best performing contest of the cycle, a campaign official told CNN. The two men met the contest winner, Cynthia Driscoll and her son Nicholas, earlier this month.
“It was great teaming up with my friend and brother, @BarackObama, to spend some time with supporters Cynthia and Nick,” Biden said Friday on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter….
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The Biden campaign has featured him in fundraising videos, emails and digital ads, and Obama is the highest-performing email signer outside of Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and their spouses, the official said.
Plans are also underway for a direct mail campaign in Obama’s name to start arriving in mailboxes over the holidays, the official said, with the money raised expected to go toward the first fundraising quarter of 2024.
Biden recently teamed up with his former boss for a video vowing to protect and expand Obamacare at a time when former President Donald Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 GOP nomination, is threatening to repeal the health care law if he wins his comeback bid…..
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