Joe Biden Fundraiser Guests Include Billy Porter, Kristin Chenoweth & More

Ted Johnson
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Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, will headline a fundraiser later this month with a list of guests that include Billie Jean King, Billy Porter, Kristin Chenoweth and Melissa Etheridge.

The April 23 event will be a virtual fundraiser, in which guests participate by video chat and listen to comments from the former Vice President, presumably from his home in Wilmington, Del.

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Tickets for the event will start at $1,000 per person, rising to $2,800 per person for those who want to be listed as a sponsor or $5,600 for those who want to be listed as a “champion.” Those who raise $20,000 are listed as co-hosts, according to the invite.

Biden already has held a number of virtual events, and has, as he has throughout the campaign, opened them up to a pool reporter. On Wednesday afternoon, Biden appeared at a virtual fundraiser that featured Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) and was hosted by John Emerson, the former U.S. Ambassador to Germany, and Kimberly Marteau Emerson, a principal at KME Consulting. Among those who were connected: Norman Lear and Dee Dee Myers, according to a pool report.

Biden said that he was “blitzing digital and traditional media” through the coronavirus crisis, and addressed whether President Donald Trump has a potential advantage with the platform of nightly White House press briefings.

“The irony of all ironies is … the more the president is on the air [with the] briefings, the more his numbers go down these days,” he said. “I think people are just looking for straight talk. They’re looking for science to dictate. I think we’d be better off is we just had Dr. [Anthony] Fauci just doing the press releases and press briefings. I’m not being facetious.”

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