Actors George Clooney and Julia Roberts as well as former President Barack Obama, of whom Joe Biden was vice-president during his two terms (2009-2017), were to attend the gala which has already brought in $28 million, according to his campaign team, a record for the Democratic Party.
By returning to American territory, Joe Biden closed a long international sequence marked by the ceremonies of the 80th anniversary of the Landings in France last week, then the G7 in Italy which ended Friday evening.
It was therefore his vice-president Kamala Harris who represented the United States at a summit on peace in Ukraine in Switzerland, without the presence of Russia.
This gala in California, presented by the Biden campaign as “a show of force” and a demonstration of “enthusiastic” support from the entertainment industry, also comes four days after a personal ordeal for Joe Biden, 81, including the son, Hunter, was convicted of illegal possession of a firearm.
Star comedian Jimmy Kimmel was to host a conversation between Joe Biden and Barack Obama.
The Democrat should hammer home his message of defending women’s rights, the right to abortion and democracy in the face of his opponent’s conception of power and society.
But he must also prepare to respond to attacks on his record age for an American president from Donald Trump, himself 78 years old since Friday, who tirelessly comments on images of stiff gait and moments of distraction. by Joe Biden.
The Republican candidate, found guilty by the courts at the end of May of accounting falsifications, went on Saturday to a black church in Detroit (north) to try to take advantage of the recent erosion of voting intentions in favor of the Democrats within this minority, where he declared that “the crook Joe Biden has done nothing for you except words.”
Detroit is the most populous city in Michigan, considered a “swing state”, likely to lean Democratic or Republican depending on the vote.
He then went to a convention bringing together voters from the right wing of the Republicans and supporters of the assault on the Capitol in January 2021.
In an 80-minute speech, frequently interrupted by applause, Donald Trump railed against Joe Biden’s climate protection program, mocked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, whom he called “commercial”, and renewed his incendiary rhetoric about what he called “Mr. Biden’s migrant invasion.”
“We have a rigged country” and “rigged elections” as well as “we have open borders,” he said.
He also challenged Joe Biden to perform the same cognitive test that he took in 2018 with the White House doctor at the time, Ronny Jackson, whose name he however scratched.
“Everyone knows Ronny Johnson, Congressman from Texas? He said he thought I was the healthiest president in history, so he was someone I really liked,” he said. he said, in front of a laughing crowd.
Donald Trump mocked Joe Biden saying he lost his way during the G7 in Italy, turning “to look at the trees”, while other world leaders looked at a paratrooper who had just landed during an aerial demonstration.
This video is misleading, however, because it leaves out footage showing Mr. Biden turning away from the other G7 leaders to gesture toward another paratrooper who had just landed to his left.
Joe Biden and Donald Trump appear neck and neck in the polls and the latter has made up a good part of his delay in terms of fundraising by riding the indignation of his supporters after his criminal conviction in New York on May 30.
The Republican candidate claimed, during his trip to Detroit, that his fundraising was “the largest in the history of politics.”
