ANALYSIS — President Joe Biden and former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton raked in more than $25 million at a glitzy New York City fundraiser Thursday night, a show of unity that Republicans have struggled to match.
Political analysts for months have noted there appears to be more enthusiasm among Republican voters, with key blocs of the Democrats’ base — including Black, Latino and Arab American voters — frustrated with Biden for different reasons. Biden and other top Democratic officials hope the star-studded event will help whip up enthusiasm about his record as president — and prevent Trump’s return to the White House.
Biden — with Obama hitching a ride from Joint Base Andrews outside Washington, D.C., to New York — came to the storied Radio City Music Hall with some political momentum. Some recent polls have shown him closing the gap with Trump or pulling ahead of the presumed GOP nominee in key swing states, and Biden is fresh off campaign stops in a number of key swing states, adding to his massive fundraising edge over Trump along the way.
