Lawrence: Biden’s three-president fundraiser shows party unity Trump doesn’t have

well the presidential campaign came to New York City tonight in fact it's across the street from here at Radio City Music Hall where the single biggest fundraiser of the presidential campaign took place tonight with three presidents on stage Biden Obama and Clinton the event shows the unity of the democratic party not just the Democratic party today but the Democratic Party of the last 30 years as it was led by Bill President Bill Clinton then President Barack Obama and now President Joe Biden a

similar gathering on the Republican side of the presidential campaign is impossible because the Republican party is not unified the Republican party has been Shattered by Donald Trump and so there will be no Trump fundraising event or campaign event with the one living former Republican President George W bush and none of the LI living former Republican vice presidents will be appearing at Trump rallies Dan Quail is 77 years old living in Arizona and commands no following in the Republican Part

y Dick Cheney is 83 years old and is one of the leaders of Republicans against Trump as is his daughter Liz Cheney who yesterday described what a second Trump presidency could be like it's important um to to recognize for example uh what it would mean to have a president who refuse to abide by the rulings of our courts and um when you know you have a situation where uh the reason that our courts have the power that they do and that they have to have under our constitution is because the chief ex

ecutive enforces their rulings the courts can't force their own rulings and and all you have to do is listen to what Donald Trump says look at the filings that um that his lawyers have made in the immunity case and others um he you know the the moment that the court rules in a way he disagrees with he will just ignore it he'll refuse to abide by it Donald Trump's own vice president Mike Pence has announced that he does not support Donald Trump for president now just imagine the political equival

ent in the Democratic party just imagine if Joe Biden's former running mate Barack Obama was opposing Joe Biden's reelection it is inconceivable because the Democratic party is fundamentally sane and the Republican party has been lost to trumpian Madness to the point that Mike Pence refusing to endorse Donald Trump is now considered perfectly normal in Trump World the unique ability of the democratic party to put three presidents on stage together in Radio City Music Hall the largest indoor thea

ter in the world with seats for 6,033 people means that the soldout event that the Democratic party ran tonight it means that the Biden Harris campaign have the most powerful fundraising operation in the history of American politics that soldout event raised more than $25 million which is more than the Trump campaign raised in the entire month of February that's right the Biden Harris campaign in two hours tonight raised more money than the Trump campaign raised for an entire month and that mean

s that in August September and October when the Battleground states are flooded with television commercials for the campaigns the Biden Harris campaign will have a tremendous Advantage those television advertising campaigns are aimed at undecided voters and swing voters voters who could go either way on Election Day it takes massive amounts of money in TV advertising to reach those voters because those voters do not watch programs like this they do not watch cable news they generally do not read

any newspaper articles about politics or government those voters know as much about politics and government as I know about Golf and so most of them have no idea how much Joe Biden has helped people of all ages with student debt those voters don't know about 82-year-old Karen angstrom who had her student debt forgiven she took out two student loans one for $30,000 another for $445,000 and over time with interest those loans grew to a total of $175,000 she said quote it was a burden I couldn't t

hink of it all the time it was just there in the background I thought it would be forgiven when I died Joe Biden erased that debt for that 82-year-old woman that's the kind of story that can be told in a 302 TV commercial the voters who will be informed by those commercials in the last weeks of the campaign don't yet know that Joe Biden has capped the price of insulin for diabetes patients those voters don't know about so many of the Biden accomplishments that can be easily summarized in 302 com

mercials but by the end of October with the Biden Harris campaign outspending the Trump campaign on TV advertising in the Battleground States many more voters will know about those Biden accomplishments than know about them tonight that's why fundraising is so important in this presidential campaign and Donald Trump is losing very very badly in the fundraising race according to the New York Times review of federal records Donald Trump has spent $100 million of campaign money on legal fees for Do

nald Trump averaging quote more than $90,000 a day in legal related costs for more than three years none of it paid for with his own money instead the former president has relied almost entirely on donations made in an attempt to fight the results of the 2020 election today the Biden Paris campaign posted this new ad with the President visiting eight swing States in just 18 days throughout the month Biden has crisscrossed the [Music] country visiting the Southwest the blue wall of the South his

campaign stops have focused on border security Reproductive Rights lowering Health Care and housing costs as well as celebrating chips and science act Investments [Music] before tonight's fundraiser the three presidents recorded a podcast with hosts Jason baitman Will Arnett and sha Hayes who became the first podcasters in history to have three presidents as guests at the same time hey everyone MSNBC has a new and improved app you'll get realtime alerts and Analysis live blogs in-depth essays vi

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