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Sheryl Crow, Rufus Wainwright, Jimmy Buffett, Joe Walsh and David Crosby performed for Joe Biden at a virtual fundraiser on Thursday, but the presumptive Democratic nominee turned his focus to the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis.
We cant ignore that we are in a country with an open wound right now, Biden said, according to a pool report. A wound far older and deeper than George FloydsGeorge Floyds killingand his brutal, brutal death captured on film. His final words, pleading for breathe. Let me breathe, I cant breathe. Its ripped open anew thisthis ugly underbelly of our society.
You know, if were not committed as a nation, with every ounce of purpose in our beingsnot just to binding up this wound in hope that somehow the scab once again will cover things overbut to treat the underlying injury, were never going to eventually heal, he told the 1,200 or so who were connected to the virtual event.
Whoopi Goldberg and Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) served as hosts of the fundraiser, which was billed as Rock Out On a Night In With Vice President Joe Biden, with donors from across the country connected to Biden at his home in Wilmington, DE.
Goldberg, co-host of The View, said of Biden, He is not perfect. He and I share several really great things in our life. We share the ability to get ourselves in trouble. We dont mean to, we just do. Sometimes you make a step and youre in it. This happens. But what I do know is he is the best man to get us in a better place.
https://deadline.com/2020/05/joe-biden-george-floyd-sheryl-crow-whoopi-goldberg-w-1202946262/
OAITW r.2.0
(27,870 posts)If our country fails him, we all are in the line.
Cha
(304,047 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)Joe Biden knows, 1st of all, what that better place is.
Thanks for this post, RandySF
💙 #JoeBiden2020
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Geez, how is that even presidential?
DFW
(56,261 posts)I was invited, but it started at 2 AM my time, and I know I would have dozed off.
Thanks for the report!
lark
(23,950 posts)Hope he raised lots of dough and spends it wisely.