President Biden is gearing up for a big-money fundraiser with mega-donors in the Hamptons on Saturday — ignoring calls for him drop out of the 2024 presidential after a catastrophic debate performance.
Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will head off from La Guardia airport at noon to a reception in East Hampton, NY, hosted by hedge-fund billionaire Barry Rosentein and his wife Lizanne.
The event kicks off at 2:45 at their sprawling 18-acre ocreanfront estate in the exclusive Long Island enclave.
The $147 million property set a record for most expensive residential real estate sale when the Rosenteins bought it in 2014.
Art dealer Larry Gagosian and hedge-fund manager Jim Chanos, another longtime Biden superdonor, are neighbors.
Fellow hedge-fund titan Eric Mindich and his Tony Award-winning producer wife Stacey, celebrity couple Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, and actor Michael J. Fox are all listed as members of the host committee, with tickets going for as much as $250,000 a head according to the East Hampton Press.
On Friday President Biden spent the day in New York City celebrating LGBT Pride Month and the 55th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots with Elton John.
He also hit another fundraiser at the Hammerstein Ballroom.
Team Biden — which remains adamant about their man staying in the race — also boasted Friday that the campaign raised $14 million on debate day and the morning after, besting Team Trump, which announced a haul of $8 million.
The president and first lady are scheduled to hit a second campaign reception in Middletown, NJ Saturday evening at the waterfront home of Gov. Phil Murphy.
The town’s Republican mayor, Tony Perry, warned the visit would cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars. “It’s going to be a logistical nightmare,” Perry told News12 New Jersey.
The Bidens are expected to end the weekend at the presidential retreat of Camp David in Maryland.
