Donors Game Out A Kamala Harris Candidacy As Potential For Joe Biden’s Exit Looms; VP, Katzenberg On Call Today With Contributors
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: The Vice President has emerged among Hollywood donors as the top successor to head the Democratic ticket as calls for Joe Biden to step aside intensify, with a caveat. “Kamala Harris has put in the work, she’s the obvious choice for sure,” says a longtime contributor to the party and various presidential contenders says of the VP. “Can you imagine a former prosecutor up against a crook like Trump, she’d rip him apart,” another Hollywood supporter stated, noting the Vice President’s past stints as San Francisco D.A.
and California’s Attorney General. “She had a rocky first couple of years, but Harris is a real team player and out there getting a great reaction on reproductive rights,” says a producer who was a big donor to Harris’ short-lived 2020 White House bid and both the 2020 and 2024 Democratic tickets.
As a part of that team player reality and having a shared campaign committee with POTUS, the VP would instantly have access to the more than $250 million war chest the Biden-Harris reelection effort has accumulated so far.
A seamless counterbalance to Trump’s aggressive fundraising off his various indictments, conviction and recent assassination attempt, former California senator Harris could see donations that have been drying up since President Biden’s disastrous June 27 debate performance reinvigorated. “The money would start flowing again like water if Kamala was the candidate,” another Tinseltown supporter declares. “There may be some more wait and see, but everyone would get on board once we have a new candidate,” another now hesitant donor says of the check writers to both the campaign and the various super PACs Out on the campaign trail the past few days while the 81-year-old POTUS recovers
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