Last month’s Los Angeles fundraiser for Joe Biden was a roaring success, bagging more than $30mn in donations for the president’s re-election campaign and high-wattage backing from the likes of George Clooney and Julia Roberts.
As the evening wound down, the crowd was cheering, the band was playing exit music and it was time to leave the stage — except Biden appeared to freeze. His former boss, Barack Obama, came to the rescue, taking the 81-year-old president’s arm and guiding him away.
Many Democrats are now hoping Obama will again be the one to usher Biden aside after the president’s dismal performance at last week’s debate against Donald Trump convinced them his campaign for re-election in November is doomed.
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