Hollywood Megadonor Tom Strickler Threatens Vulnerable Senate Dems: Publicly Abandon Biden or You Won’t Get Another DimeDavid Ng 18 Jul 2024
A prominent Hollywood megadonor is putting the screws to vulnerable Senate Democrats by pressuring them to publicly abandon Joe Biden, saying he won’t give them another dime unless they call on the president to quit his bid for re-election.
Tom Strickler — who co-founded the Hollywood talent agency WME, which is now part of Endeavor — has launched an all-out assault on Joe Biden’s campaign, according to a New York Times report. He has already met with Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM), delivering the senator an ultimatum.
“If you don’t publicly call for Biden to step aside,” Strickler said he told Sen. Heinrich’s team on Thursday morning, “you are not getting a dime from me.”
Strickler told the Times that he had also been planning to give the maximum legal amount in August to each of the seven most vulnerable Democratic Senate candidates, but that as of now, he would not be supporting them because they have not broken with Biden.
“It’s a message that I’ve encouraged my friends to send as well,” he told the newspaper. “If you back Biden, you will lose our support. Over and out.”
This comes just as Jeffrey Katzenberg, who serves as Biden’s campaign co-chair, held an emergency meeting Wednesday with the 81-year-old president in Las Vegas where he warned that donations are drying up due to ongoing concerns about the president’s age, according to a Semafor report.
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