Biden braces for a fundraising slowdown: From the Politics Desk
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Biden braces for a fundraising slowdown: From the Politics Desk

Politics tamfitronics Welcome to the online version ofFrom the Politics Deskan evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the campaign trail, the White House and Capitol Hill.In today’s edition, we report on President Joe Biden taking a post-debate fundraising hit and why progressives are still backing him up. Plus, chief political analyst Chuck Todd breaks down a fundamental miscalculation the Biden campaign made about the political landscape.Sign up to receive this newsletter in your inbox every weekday here.‘It’s already disastrous’: Biden campaign fundraising takes a major hitBy Natasha Korecki, Jonathan Allen and Monica AlbaPresident Joe Biden’s campaign has already suffered a major slowdown in donations, and officials are bracing for a seismic fundraising hit, with the fallout from a debate nearly two weeks ago taking a sizable...
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Clooney’s Biden intervention is about to make showbiz for ugly people even uglier
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Clooney’s Biden intervention is about to make showbiz for ugly people even uglier

Politics tamfitronics Hollywood superstar George Clooney has added his husky voice to the chorus of Democratic Party-aligned figures more or less begging US President Joe Biden to pull out of the 2024 election race. Writing inThe New York TimesClooney,a longtime campaigner and fundraiser for the Democrats, said that although he found it “devastating”, “the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fundraiser was not the Joe ‘big F-ing deal’ Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.”Clooney went on to say that the Democrats would not win the presidential election, nor the House of Representatives, nor hold onto the Senate, with Biden on the ticket: “This isn’t only my opinion; this is the opinion of every senator and congress member and...
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