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Obama raises $7.6 million at fundraiser for Biden's campaign

Obama raises $7.6 million at fundraiser for Biden's campaign
Posted at 9:26 AM, Jun 24, 2020
and last updated 2020-06-24 09:26:56-04

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Barack Obama has helped raise a record-breaking $7.6 million from more than 175,000 individual donors in a grassroots fundraiser for presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

Obama is warning Democrats against being “complacent or smug” about the presidential race.

He is telling them to get engaged with the campaign and says, “whatever you've done is not enough.”

The small-dollar fundraiser Tuesday kicked off what Obama’s team says will likely be a busy schedule heading into the fall, as he looks to help elect not just Biden but also Democrats running for House and Senate.