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President Trump dined with major donors at his Northern Virginia golf course Thursday – the same venue where he is expected to break bread with the top holders of his memecoin next month. The price of admission to attend the fundraiser for MAGA Inc., a pro-Trump super PAC, reportedly started at $1 million, with multiple outlets reporting that “host” status would be given to donors contributing at least $5 million to the political group. Details of the goings-on at the dinner were not immediately available. It appears that White House pool reporters were not privy to the function. Trump previously...

Maggie Kulyk, a progressive donor and activist in the Atlanta area, has a long list of worries about President Donald Trump: His moves to bypass Congress and swiftly slash the size of government, the financial fallout of his steep tariffs and his decision to install Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, in a powerful government role. “This chaos is intentional, and it’s terrifying,” she said. But she’s also alarmed by the response from Democrats at the national level. “It has been astoundingly bad. It is as if we are dealing with an analog group in a digital world.” Since losing...

Democrats are anxious to rebuild their party on the heels of President Trump’s victory in November. But they have a major problem as they try to refashion their brand: The money isn’t there. Democratic donors — from bundlers to small dollar donors — say they are still angry about the election results and uninspired by anything their side has put forward since then. “I’ll be blunt here: The Democratic Party is f‑‑‑ing terrible. Plain and simple,” said one major Democratic donor. “In fact, it doesn’t get much worse.” A second donor was equally as pointed. “They want us to spend...

The demoralization and fear gripping blue America in the early weeks of President Trump’s administration have left liberal groups and their allies struggling for cash, hurting their ability to effectively combat the right-wing transformation of the federal government. The small-dollar online spigot that powered opposition to the first Trump administration has slowed to a trickle as shaken liberal voters withhold their donations. Charitable foundations that have long supported causes like voting rights, L.G.B.T.Q. equality and immigrants’ rights are pulling back, devoting time to prepare for expected investigations from the Republican-led Congress. And some of the country’s biggest liberal donors have...

Failed presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris (D) is reportedly still asking donors for cash for several reasons as her campaign still wallows in debt. The Daily Caller reported on Monday that her campaign is sending out fundraising messages even after she and her radical leftist running mate, Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), lost to President-elect Donald Trump (R) and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), on Tuesday. The Caller’s article said Harris’s most recent message was sent to supporters on Sunday, per emails the outlet obtained.

While we are all still in a good mood from the Trump victory, I hope everybody realizes how important FR has been not only by letting us follow the news and get real-time info and discussion on important events, but also by blazing a new trail in conservative media. It looks like the payment processing changes are having a serious negative effect on the Freepathon this quarter. If you are a monthly donor, there is a good chance your October autopay didn't process (mine didn't). I am challenging all of the monthly donors to double your payment in November to...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is zeroing in on the policy goals closest to his heart now that he’s no longer seeking a second term and will visit New Orleans on Tuesday to promote his administration’s “moonshot” initiative aiming at dramatically reducing cancer deaths. The president and first lady Jill Biden will tour medical facilities, then, at Tulane University, will help announce $150 million in awards from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health. Those will support eight teams of researchers around the country working on ways to help surgeons more successfully remove tumors for people facing cancer. The...

A member of Kamala Harris's team who is also a prominent member of the Democratic National Committee was filmed conceding that she will not 'win this year.' Kamala Harris Campaign Compliance Manager Joyce DeCerce - who is a Compliance Manager for the DNC - could be seen lamenting how Harris is 'weirdly unpopular', while seemingly admitting to making empty promises to donors. In the footage, DeCerce agrees that the campaign fundraising strategy is to 'take their money and tell them what they want to hear.' The devastating rundown comes as Harris prepares to accept her party's nomination, while airing a...

Vice President Kamala Harris will make a hastily organized address to Democratic donors on a call Friday afternoon as leaders of the party urge President Biden to step aside, according to a report. The precise purpose of the call is unknown, though Harris, 59, has publicly stood by Biden — as other Democrats say she’s the most likely candidate to replace him if he drops out before the Nov. 5 election. The call was promoted by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, a top donor to Democrats, who invited other Silicon Valley titans to join, the New York Times reports. “We continue...

If you want to understand the pain and anguish that Democrat Party voters are feeling right now then visit the website democraticunderground.com. They are enraged over the efforts of the donor class to jettison Biden like a piece of moldy fruit. If you look try not to overload your system with schadenfreude. 😎

<p>Biden told donors he is staying in the presidential race and thanked them for their support to beat Trump, according to his campaign. He also took questions from them.</p><p>He also added that he’s “not going anywhere” and promised to beat Trump.</p>

Joe Biden is said to be in 'denial' about having to withdraw from the presidential election following his dismal debate performance last week, as some of his campaign donors become ever more worried about his mental acuity. The 81-year-old commander-in-chief has insisted he is staying in the race amid calls from members of his own party to step aside and hand the reins over to a younger Democrat. But even those who are publicly vouching for Biden have admitted in private that there is no path forward with him at the top of the ticket, according to the Washington Post....

Big-money Hollywood donors are reportedly enraged at movie mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg for the “agewashing” of President Joe Biden. Katzenberg, who was named a campaign co-chair due to his prolific fundraising abilities, is being accused by his entertainment industry peers of misleading them by downplaying Biden’s age-related decline and failing to sound the alarm in time to allow the Democrats to pick a suitable replacement, The Ankler reported. “Everyone in town is furious with him. Furious,” a top Hollywood observer told The Ankler when asked about donors’ views about Katzenberg, who has long insisted that the president is “fine” even though...

Democratic swami James Carville has taken the drastic step of telling major party donors to stop contributing to politicians who still support President Biden after last week’s poor debate performance. Carville — the veteran strategist behind Bill Clinton’s successful 1992 White House run — cited Biden’s tanking poll numbers in a conference call with dozens of wealthy Dem contributors earlier this week, according to Semafor. “Seventy-two percent of people want something different — why not give it to them?’’ Carville reportedly said on the call.

Anxious Democratic donors grilled Biden campaign officials on a Zoom call Monday, pressing Biden's team on how it will deal with new concerns about his fitness for office, according to four donors on the call. Why it matters: There wasn't much panic during the special call for wealthy donors — but there was a fair degree of skepticism. Donors' questions revealed deep doubts within the Democratic Party on whether Biden has the stamina, skill and substance to go toe-to-toe with former President Trump for the next four months, defeat him on Nov. 5, and serve another four-year term. Donors didn't...

Biden campaign donors are giving the president a two-week grace period in the wake of his disastrous debate performance against former President Donald Trump, The Post has learned. Any decline in the 81-year-old president’s polling numbers after those two weeks are up will become problematic and difficult for donors to stomach, a source privy to a call with top campaign contributors on Monday told The Post. The Democratic National Finance Committee tamped down speculation that Biden could end his re-election bid during an hour-plus long Zoom call intended to put top donors at ease. “The call was very reassuring,” the...

On Saturday night in the Hamptons, the buzz at dinner parties and restaurants was about President Biden’s performance at a local, upscale fundraiser, and traffic nightmares his presence caused. While the president got largely good reviews — words like “strong” and “energetic” were used to describe his appearance at the private event after his Thursday night debate debacle — others weren’t so sure. One political veteran told Page Six, “Most people said they felt better,” after seeing Biden, “but some felt worse.” The unconvinced Democrat insider said that while some at the daytime event were reassured that Biden addressed his...

A desperate Joe Biden has hit back at the New York Times after it told him to drop out of the presidential race following his disastrous debate. The Times had previously jointly endorsed two Democratic presidential candidates Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren in 2020 instead of Biden. A senior adviser to the president told CNN: 'The last time Joe Biden lost the New York Times editorial board's endorsement, it turned out pretty well for him.' Biden would go on to win his party's nomination and defeat Trump in November 2020. But on Friday the editorial board wrote Biden 'is not...

Tech adviser Jacob Helberg, who has donated large sums to Democrats, has joined a wave of big money donors rejecting President Joe Biden and supporting former president Donald Trump in 2024. Helberg has donated $1 million to Trump’s re-election effort, making the tech adviser one of the largest financial backers of Trump’s bid to win back the White House in November. Just four years ago, Helberg was using his money and influence to support Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s doomed campaign for president, according to The Washington Post. Helberg is one of a cadre of high-powered Silicon Valley businessmen who have...

Donors who once worried more about Donald Trump now see the president’s bid for a second term as the greater threat to America. Joe Biden’s threat last week to freeze arms shipments to Israel along with reports that his administration is withholding intelligence about Hamas leaders’ whereabouts has reverberated throughout U.S. politics. Now, some Never Trump donors say the Biden administration’s policy toward the Jewish state is such a betrayal they’re considering jumping on board the Trump train. Call it the rise of the Never Bidens, donors who once were more worried about Trump but now see Joe Biden’s bid...