Here’s a Hollywood ending that President Joe Biden wants to bring to life: an incumbent facing tough polling numbers and questions about his advanced age overcomes a brash opponent to win a second term at the White House.

With strikes by writers and actors now over, Biden is beginning to make that pitch to the Southern California set in person. He and first lady Jill Biden plan to attend six fundraising events and meetings between them this weekend in the Los Angeles area, asking some of the glitziest names in town to open their checkbooks for his reelection campaign.

Some of the events will be public and others private over roughly 36 hours in California. But organizers say Biden should raise more this weekend than in any similar time frame since announcing his campaign in April. He may also potentially take in more than any presidential candidate has in greater Los Angeles this far out from Election Day.

“The pent-up excitement, enthusiasm is really unprecedented,” said Jeffrey Katzenberg, a co-founder of DreamWorks Pictures and longtime Democratic presidential fundraiser in Los Angeles, who is one of the Biden campaign’s national co-chairs. “People are excited. They’re mobilized. And they’ve been waiting months to show their support for him.”

  • @givesomefucks
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    -810 months ago

    So…

    His poll numbers are terrible against the legitimately worst president in American history.

    And rather than even attempt to hold some of the campaign promises that got him elected, he’s going to beg for donations from incredibly rich people who are completely out of touch with what real Americans lives are like…

    I just want a single option that cares about the American people instead of just chasing donations so they can get elected and not accomplish anything.

    If the only positive to Biden is he’s not trump, well, that’s 99.999999999999999% of the worlds population.

    So why the fuck is that the bare minimum?

    • GodlessCommie
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      -1310 months ago

      Because lying and gaslighting the public is cheaper than actually doing any of the things he promised. He’s currently allowing the slaughter of Palestinians and the fucking VBNMW shitlibs are still saying ‘most progressive since FDR’

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        10 months ago

        Would you rather we have a president who’s problem is that the genocide isn’t coming here too?

        Because that’s what the Palestinians who live here right now hear when you privs try to waffle about why you shouldn’t be judged for letting the fascists win. Honestly even more so with that particular comparison to the president that enacted population displacement on Japanese Americans.

        Would it be more progressive if us Palestinian sacrifices on the altar of “but Dems bad” all got a mandatory vacation to heart ridge instead?

        • GodlessCommie
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          -410 months ago

          I doubt many of them are concerned what someone like Trump might do when the incumbent is letting their families get slaughtered.

          Since you dont know, blue is fascist too