Clinton will also speak at a $33,400-per-person fundraiser for the Hillary Victory Fund at Clooney’s Studio City home.
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Todd asked: ‘Let me start with a dinner you co-hosted on Friday night. “They’re absolutely right. It’s an obscene amount of money”. “We can talk about why they ended up that way, but first we have to bring them to heel”.
Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, her challenger for the party’s nomination, sharply questioned each other’s judgement in a contentious exchange on Thursday in the early moments of a high-stakes US presidential debate.
“We’ve had a very spirited primary campaign, which I think is great, but just remember, it’s not enough to say what’s wrong, you’ve got to tell people what you’re going to do to make it right”, Clinton said. The number is a reference to the average donation to Sanders’ campaign, which he regularly touts on the campaign trail. Her lead balloons to almost 700 when the support of super delegates – party leaders who are free to back any candidate – are added.
A combined 5.57 million total viewers watched the Democratic debate on CNN and local cable news net NY1 Thursday, according to Nielsen, as Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders battled over banking regulations, tax returns, NY values and other hot topics.
Clinton and the Clooneys will hold another fundraiser Saturday at George Clooney’s mansion in Los Angeles. Premium seats near Clinton and Clooney and his wife Amal went for $353,400 per couple, according to the invitation.
Actor George Clooney would like to get big money out of politics – so he doesn’t have to raise it.
The results of the Democratic race will not be final until the Democratic National Convention, scheduled for July 25-28 in Philadelphia.
Among those present was actress Frances Fisher, a longtime Sanders supporter who held a “Feel the Bern” sign.
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Another protestor on a megaphone was more damning: “We know that this is political bribery, openly accepted in our country!” Most of the earnings came from Sanders’ $174,000 Senate salary, though Jane Sanders reported collecting $4,900 as a commissioner with the Texas Low Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission.
