WASHINGTON DC (WSAU) – Before the end of June, the re-election campaign for President Joe Biden is expected to host more than 20 fundraisers.
In addition to visiting New York, Maryland, and Illinois, Biden will hold at least four fundraisers in San Francisco, California.
Biden, Jill Biden, Kamala Harris, and Douglas Emhoff will all be present at the events, according to the Associated Press, which cited a “person involved in Biden’s travel plans who insisted on anonymity to discuss the schedule.”
The news comes days after Biden’s first campaign event of the election season, which he held in Philadelphia on Saturday and attended by the AFL-CIO. On Friday, he also went to a charity event in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Former Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs told POLITICO, “We see the cadence of activity ramping up significantly.”
“It gets the president out there even more actively making a political as well as a policy case on a day-to-day basis,” Gibbs continued. “It takes a while to build a campaign. It takes a while to raise the money that they’re going to need, to get everybody in fighting shape and to kind of get in the rhythm of that.”
President Biden’s poll numbers have dipped over the past few weeks, with Rasmussen and Harvard/Harris showing former President Trump beating him by six points in a general election. Big Village, along with Redfield and Wilton Strategies, also have former President Trump leading Biden by three points.
Democratic candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has also been putting pressure on the Biden campaign after recent polls show Kennedy Jr. is currently the most popular presidential candidate and a USA Today/Suffolk University poll found that 8 out of 10 Democratic voters want a series of Democratic debates during the 2024 campaign.
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