Obama Raises $7.6 Million at Fundraiser for Biden’s Campaign

Then-President Barack Obama together with then-Vice President Joe Biden addresses, for the first time publicly, the shock election of President Donald Trump as his successor, at the White House in Washington, on Nov. 9, 2016. Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images

WASHINGTON—Former President Barack Obama held a grassroots fundraiser on Tuesday for presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

Biden, who appeared virtually alongside Obama at the event, said it raised $7.6 million from more than 175,000 individual donors.