Former President Barack Obama is making a push for Americans to donate to Joe Biden's 2024 presidential campaign in a video posted to the president's Twitter account.
"Your donations are the reason President Biden won the last election," Obama said in the ad.
"And when he won, he built on our progress with the ACA, he passed the biggest climate bill in world history, and he brought our economy back from crises. That's because of you."
Biden in the video said his administration has a lot more work to do, including protecting voting rights, protecting Social Security and Medicare, fighting for the fundamental to love and allowing Americans to "make our own healthcare choices" and to "read certain books to our kids."
Biden hosted Obama at the White House for lunch Tuesday as the president steps up his fundraising efforts.
The pair talk often, according to media reports, and Obama occasionally visits the White House.
Biden has cozied up to high-dollar donors at Upper East Side penthouses in New York and on West Coast decks in recent weeks. His fundraisers in Manhattan on Thursday closed out an end-of-quarter campaign blitz that his team hopes will put him on strong financial footing for a 2024 White House contest expected to set spending records.
The president is also marshaling the whole of the Democratic Party to dial for dollars, enlisting help from Govs. Gavin Newsom of California and J.B. Pritzker of Illinois as well as Obama, among others.
Biden allies insist that despite polls showing lagging enthusiasm among the Democrat base for the 80-year-old president, his party is solidly behind him.
"I've been doing this for a really long time for a number of presidents and presidential candidates," said Jeffrey Katzenberg, the Hollywood mogul, major Democrat donor and co-chair of Biden's campaign. "I've never seen from top to bottom, the Democratic enterprise kick into gear this way, from President Obama, governors, senators, congressmen, just across the board — he's gotten outstanding support."
Aides say they are trying to motivate donors, especially small-dollar contributors, to dig deeper early on.
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