Biden Campaign Official Asked Point Blank: Can You 'Move Forward Without The Big Donors?'

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During a press gaggle aboard Air Force One, on Friday, Biden Campaign officials responded to reporter questions on campaign donations.

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00:00I'm wondering if you can comment on the reports that millions of dollars are being withheld

00:08from the president and potentially being redirected to House and Senate races because some donors

00:13don't want him on the ballot or are waiting to see if he's going to remain the Democratic

00:17nominee.

00:18Listen, I think I read out at the beginning of this call, or this gaggle, that we had

00:23nearly 40,000 donations during the president's press conference.

00:26The start of July has been the best start of any grassroots fundraising month that we've

00:33had in this campaign.

00:34And we're confident that as we move forward here and return the concentration, the conversation

00:38to the fundamental choice in this election between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, this campaign

00:43is going to have the resources it needs to continue to build upon the infrastructure

00:47that is already our competitive advantage in a very close and competitive election to

00:51do the work that we need to do to beat Donald Trump in November.

00:54Do you feel like you could move forward without the big donors if they did continue to withhold

00:58those donations?

00:59We are confident that donors, both grassroots, major donors, and everybody within the Biden-Harris

01:04coalition is going to understand the fundamental stakes of this election as we move forward

01:08and put in all the work that we know that we collectively need to do to defeat Donald

01:12Trump in November.

01:13You three had FaceTime with the president today.

01:15How is he feeling about his performance last night, especially the two gaffes that he made

01:20calling President Zelensky Putin?

01:22And the fact that for many Americans, not just his detractors, those are what stick

01:26out.

01:27How are you guys going to campaign against that?

01:29Yeah.

01:30Joe Biden has been making gaffes for 40 years.

01:31He made a couple of last night.

01:32He will probably continue to do so.

01:35Our opponent is somebody who every single day out on the stump is calling for a bloodbath

01:39if he loses.

01:40He's pledging to rule as a dictator on day one and is pledging to ban abortion nationwide

01:43across the country.

01:44The voters of this country are smart.

01:45The voters watched the totality of that press conference.

01:48They saw a president lead on the global stage, talk about complex issues, the ways in which

01:53he's uniting the West around Putin's aggression, the ways in which he is working on securing

01:57a ceasefire framework in the Middle East, and they saw him present a clear choice against

02:02the opponent in Donald Trump, who had just laid out all the fundamental threats that

02:05he poses to the American people.

02:07We are confident that the American people are smart enough to understand the fundamental

02:10choice in this election.

02:11And as we and the president continues to campaign relentlessly across all the battleground states,

02:16the only answer to that choice is going to be Joe Biden.

Biden Campaign Official Asked Point Blank: Can You 'Move Forward Without The Big Donors?'

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