At the June 15 event at L.A.’s Peacock Theater, some donors said this week that they noticed Biden seemed slow. He seemed frail. As he greeted donors lined up for photos, he trailed off or spoke too quietly in small talk conversation to be heard.
From left, late-night talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel, President Biden and former president Barack Obama at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on June 15. Hollywood executives, performers and thousands of other Californians filed into a Los Angeles theater last month, expecting a star-studded fundraiser for President Biden, backed by actors George Clooney and Julia Roberts, that would inject millions of dollars into Biden’s static campaign and launch him on a path to beat Donald Trump in November.
Measured by dollars, the evening was a success: it brought in more than $30 million for Biden’s campaign, setting a record for a single political fundraiser. The president, who had just flown in from Italy that morning, first met with top donors and allies in a two-hour-plus series of “It felt like he was still the smart, witty guy we’ve all followed for many years, but the volume and speed are turned way down — to an alarming level,” said one longtime Democratic supporter who, like several others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss her personal experience meeting the president after she and her husband donated $100,000.the donor said that she and Obama shared a brief joke that Biden initially seemed to miss.
“It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe ‘big F-ing deal’ Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020,” Clooney wrote. “He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.”Others who attended said they felt Biden had been engaging and energetic, particularly given the circumstances.
Emerson — whose husband served as ambassador to Germany under Obama — said she had a pleasant experience meeting Biden and Obama in the photo line. “When democracy is at stake, Jack Black answers the call,” the actor said, endorsing Biden in American-flag overalls and a “Dark Brandon” t-shirt. “Millions of people would be affected,” Obama quickly followed up. “And the reason that the Republicans say they’re opposed to it is because we did it.”
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