As Biden struggles, First Lady to visit GA for lavish fundraiser

Dr. Biden to make two-day visit to GA

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First Lady Dr. Jill Biden will travel to Georgia on Thursday to host a high-dollar fundraiser for her husband’s re-election campaign. She will be sticking around for a stop at Emory University on Friday.

Dr. Biden will be joined at the lavish campaign event by Sally Yates, a former federal prosecutor who briefly served as acting U.S. Attorney General in the early days of the Trump administration.

Those planning to attend Thursday’s fundraiser will have to shell out a pretty penny. According to the official invitation, a regular attendee will have to pay $1,000 for a ticket. But tickets for attendees who would like to have their picture taken with the First Lady are even higher, costing as much as $10,000 per person.

Then on Friday, the First Lady is set to meet with doctors and researchers at Atlanta’s Emory University to discuss cancer research, one of the White House’s key priorities.

Dr. Biden’s two-day trip to Georgia comes as her husband faces enormous political headwinds in his re-election campaign. With a government shutdown roughly two weeks away, Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy this week launched an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden over his son Hunter’s foreign business dealings, though they have not yet shared any evidence linking the President to a crime.

Another grim reality facing the President is that voters largely do not want him to run again. His approval rating remains at just 41 percent nationwide, according to FiveThirtyEight. And a CNN poll from last week found that roughly two-thirds of Democratic voters say they wish the party would nominate someone other than Biden in 2024.

President Biden, who will be 82 years old on Inauguration Day 2025, is also having to contend with questions about his age and whether or not he will be able to serve a full second term.

But between the First Lady’s visit this week and Vice President Kamala Harris’ trips to Georgia this year, it’s clear that Biden’s campaign is relying heavily on the President’s closest surrogates and allies to fire up voters who are dreading what is shaping up to be a rematch with Donald Trump.