WASHINGTON – Former President Barack Obama helped raise a record-breaking $7.6 million from more than 175,000 individual donors ahead of his first fundraiser for presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden. “I'm here to say that help is on the way if we do the work,” Obama said during the virtual fundraiser. “Because there's nobody that I trust more to be able to heal this country and get it back on track than my dear friend Joe Biden.”The small-dollar fundraiser Tuesday offered a fresh test of Obama's ability to transfer his popularity to Biden, his former vice president who is now seeking the White House on his own.
It was a kickoff of what Obama’s team says will likely be a busy schedule heading into the fall, as he looks to help elect not.