Obama To Appear At First Joint Biden Fundraiser

Former President Barack Obama will appear with his former vice president and the presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden, in a joint fundraiser next week. The fundraiser, which will take place on June 23rd and is billed by the Biden campaign as a “virtual grassroots event,” will be the first time the two have appeared together since Mr. Obama endorsed Biden in April.

In an email to supporters from the Biden campaign, Mr. Obama said the two will be “answering your questions and talking to folks like you.” In the email, Mr. Obama referred to the November election as “the most important election of our lifetimes.”

Biden, the Democratic National Committee and his joint fund- raising committee raised more than $80 million in May, the most the candidate has raised to date during the 2020 election cycle. According to the campaign, more than half of the donors last month were new con- tributors, and more than 1.5 million new supporters joined the campaign in recent weeks.