{"id":442,"date":"2020-10-13T13:57:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T13:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/fundraising-for-joe-biden\/"},"modified":"2023-02-20T08:12:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T15:12:18","slug":"fundraising-for-joe-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/2020\/10\/fundraising-for-joe-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"Fundraising for Joe Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was doing a sleep study a few weeks ago and had dropped out of the news cycle while everyone seemed to be doing fundraisers for Joe Biden! In fact, all three of my early major celebrity obsessions did Joe Biden fundraisers this summer or fall. Not a requirement, but very appreciated.<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago Cher headlined a 30-minute event that raised 2 million for Joe Biden in a LGBTQ+ virtual fundraiser.<\/p>\n

Various news outlets picked it up:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.9news.com\/article\/news\/nation-world\/cher-raised-2-million-for-biden-campaign-at-lgbtq-fundraiser\/507-b9e891d8-f001-40f2-beb7-6138d199daad<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/snyde\/ny-cher-raises-2-million-joe-biden-virtual-fundraiser-20200901-lgzjqx3bc5doba3jqyrxekvv3i-story.html<\/a><\/p>\n

"Cher helped to raise nearly $2 million for Joe Biden in a Zoom-powered fund-raiser attended by 500 lucky participants."<\/em><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/music\/news\/cher-joe-biden-lgbtq-virtual-fundraiser-a9700306.html<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/cher-biden-fundraiser-2-million-biden-campaign-lgbtq-event\/<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/politics\/2020\/8\/31\/cher-helps-raise-2m-joe-biden-during-lgbtq-virtual-fundraiser<\/a><\/p>\n

"Biden spoke of his history with Cher, saying that she \u201cfirst supported us way back last winter when it took some guts to do so. Fortunately, guts are something Cher has in abundance.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cher’s fundraiser for Joe Biden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,118],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cher-news","tag-cher","tag-joe-biden","wp-image-borders","post-preview"],"yoast_head":"\nFundraising for Joe Biden - I Found Some Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/2020\/10\/fundraising-for-joe-biden\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fundraising for Joe Biden - 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