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Obama, Clinton join Biden at fundraiser

Sold-out NYC event raises more than $26M

- Joey Garrison BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

Barack Obama and Bill Clinton joined President Joe Biden on Thursday night in New York at the most lucrative fundraiser of the 2024 campaign, warning fellow Democrats that Donald Trump must be defeated while making forceful cases for Biden’s reelection.

“Joe is absolutely right that we’ve got not just a nominee, but, frankly, a party and an entire infrastruc­ture that increasing­ly seems unconcerne­d with the essence of America,” Obama said of Trump and Republican­s. “The idea of self-governance and the possibilit­ies of us all fully operating and bridging our difference­s and moving forward.”

“But we also have a positive story to tell about the future,” Obama added.

The three presidents took turns taking questions during an “armchair conversati­on” moderated by Stephen Colbert, host of CBS’ “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”

Obama: ‘Sometimes we forget where we started’

The Biden campaign fundraiser, held at Radio City Music Hall before a soldout crowd of more than 5,000 donors, raised more than $26 million, the most

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The rare showing of three Democratic presidents presented a united front to help Biden bring together a Democratic coalition that’s shown signs of splinterin­g.

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