WASHINGTON – The stars turned out Thursday at President Joe Biden's campaign fundraiser with former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.
According to the campaign, Stephen Colbert, host of CBS's “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” will host an “armchair conversation” with Biden, Obama and Clinton at the big-ticket event at Radio City Music Hall in New York.
Actress Mindy Kaling, who appeared on television shows “The Office” and “The Mindy Project,” will host the show. The evening will feature musical guests Lizzo, Queen Latifah, Ben Platt, Cynthia Erivo and Lea Michele.
The fundraiser is expected to be the most lucrative yet for Biden's re-election campaign, which has significantly outperformed former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee.
Fundraiser guests who pay enough will be able to have their portraits taken with the three presidents by world-renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz, known for her images of celebrities.
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Donors can also participate in a virtual conversation with the three presidents, moderated by Biden campaign manager Julie Chávez Rodriguez.
The event is expected to raise at least $10 million and draw at least 3,000 people, Chris Korge, a veteran Democratic fundraiser and finance chairman of the Biden Victory Fund, told NBC News. A photo with all three presidents costs $100,000 or more, according to NBC, but tickets to the broadcast are just $250 each.
Korge co-organized the fundraiser with DreamWorks founder Jeffrey Katzenberg, the campaign's co-chair. Rufus Gifford, chairman of campaign finance; and Anna Wintour, U.S. artistic director of Condé Nast.
The Biden campaign and other joint committees raised $53 million in February, giving the incumbent president $155 million on hand – the most ever for a Democratic presidential candidate at this point in the election cycle.
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