{"id":12568,"date":"2023-12-06T13:48:41","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T13:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/06\/biden-expected-to-raise-more-than-15-million-in-star-studded-fundraising-blitz-sources\/"},"modified":"2023-12-06T13:48:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T13:48:41","slug":"biden-expected-to-raise-more-than-15-million-in-star-studded-fundraising-blitz-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/06\/biden-expected-to-raise-more-than-15-million-in-star-studded-fundraising-blitz-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden expected to raise more than $15 million in star-studded fundraising blitz: Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\"><strong>EXCLUSIVE:<\/strong> President Biden\u2019s re-election campaign is expected to raise more than $15 million this week as he travels across the nation for multiple high-profile and star-studded fundraising events, Fox News Digital has learned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Two sources close to the campaign and familiar with the president\u2019s fundraising efforts told Fox News Digital that the more $15 million will also include small-dollar donations.<\/p>\n<p>The president attended a fundraising event in Boston, Mass. on Tuesday, which featured a concert by singer-songwriter James Taylor. Front-row tickets sold for $7,500 per seat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The president is expected to attend fundraising events in Washington D.C. on Thursday near the White House.<\/p>\n<p>And on Friday, the president will travel to Los Angeles for a Hollywood fundraiser hosted by Steven Spielberg, Shona Rhimes, CEO of Paramount Pictures Jim Gianopulos, actor and filmmaker Rob Reiner, and others.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles event will be at the home of interior designer Michael Smith and his partner James Costos, who had served as former President Obama\u2019s ambassador to Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Top tickets for that event are said to be $930,000 each.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lenny Kravitz is expected to perform at the event.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Barbara Streisand and a slew of other celebrities are expected to attend. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is also expected to attend the event.<\/p>\n<p>The expected fundraising haul comes after the campaign\u2019s strongest grassroots fundraising month since the president announced his re-election campaign, a Biden campaign official told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n<p>Campaign officials told Fox News Digital that in the third quarter, 97% of all donations were under $200 and the average grassroots contribution was $40.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign announced in October that it raised more than $71 million in the third quarter of 2023. The campaign, as of October, also had nearly $91 million in cash on hand, with officials calling that figure \u2018the highest total amassed by any Democratic candidate in history at this point in the cycle.\u2019<\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCLUSIVE: President Biden\u2019s re-election campaign is expected to raise more than $15 million this week as he travels across the nation for multiple high-profile and star-studded fundraising events, Fox News Digital has learned. Two sources close to the campaign and familiar with the president\u2019s fundraising efforts told Fox News Digital that the more $15 million <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}