Biden's New York Fundraisers Draw Finance and Fashion Stars
- Jim Chanos hosts; Anna Wintour attends event at top law firm
- Candidate hints at $19.8 million in donations in two months
Joe Biden is barreling toward the end of the first campaign finance reporting period of his 2020 presidential bid with a densely packed schedule of fundraisers that have drawn a former Republican senator, an ex-Trump cabinet official and the editor of Vogue.
On Monday, Al D’Amato, who represented New York in the U.S. Senate from 1981 to 1999, was at a $2,800-a-head event at the Upper East Side penthouse of short seller Jim Chanos, as was former Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, who served as an undersecretary before being President Donald Trump’s first choice to lead the agency.
On Tuesday, Biden attended fundraisers at two law firms. An event at Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison was attended by Conde Nast creative director Anna Wintour. Biden gave shoutouts to former Representative Steve Israel and Robert Schumer, a Paul Weiss partner whose brother is the Senate Democratic leader. The former vice president appeared to offer Israel a role in his administration, joking, “you better hope I don’t win because you’re not staying in Long Island.”