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The Biden Donor Dilemma

As the president heads to the West Coast to raise money on the heels of the Hur Report, the big-money crowd is asking existential questions and finding familiar answers. Plus: the inside story of why the R.F.K. super PAC refunded $10 million to Bezos’ security guy.

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Biden donors are repeating the party line in part because they believe it, yes, and because they have seen Biden beat Trump in 2020 and have faith that he can do it again. Photo: Andrew Thomas/NurPhoto/Getty Images
Theodore Schleifer
February 14, 2024

Next Wednesday night, Joe Biden will arrive for dinner at a historic, treasure-filled San Francisco palace hosted by the Getty family—that elite-of-the-elite surname that has connoted dignity, power, and also senescence in Pacific Heights society for half a century. Biden is attending this fundraiser, which has been kept very under the radar, at the request of Nancy Pelosi, a Getty family friend and featured guest. The event should raise some $2 million for the Biden reelection campaign, I’m told.