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...Donald Trump’s campaign is expected to raise $33mn from a blockbuster fundraiser next week in Florida, as he races to narrow the funding gap with Joe Biden, who is holding his own star-studded gala later...
...He said: “I will support anyone who’s running against Joe Biden. Or [California governor] Gavin Newsom, or any other extreme-left candidate they can drum up.”...
...Billionaire investor John Paulson will host a Florida fundraiser for Donald Trump next month, as the former president tries to match Joe Biden’s money operation and pay for a growing pile of legal bills...
...Shale oil baron Harold Hamm, who co-chaired the Paulson fundraiser, told the FT the Florida fundraiser showed Trump was in “very, very good shape” in terms of his fundraising....
...Billionaire investor John Paulson will host a Florida fundraiser for Donald Trump next month, as the former president tries to match Joe Biden’s money operation and pay for growing legal bills and judgments...
...Democrat Henry Johnson also accused Hur, a registered Republican, of seeking to curry favour with Trump, who had previously appointed Hur to a stint leading the US attorney’s office in Maryland....
...Will they turn to Trump, back Joe Biden or a third-party group, or sit this one out?...
...Harold Hamm, the US shale magnate and billionaire Republican donor, told the Financial Times a victory for Biden would be “disastrous” for the sector....
...Not to mention, he’s lagging far behind US President Joe Biden in raising campaign cash....
...Billionaire donors such as Ken Griffin and Harold Hamm showered cash on anti-Trump candidates. But there was no strategy or co-ordination of their efforts....
...Although he is ahead in most of the polls for November’s election, Trump’s campaign is at a huge financial disadvantage to Joe Biden....
...Harold Hamm, a shale oil magnate who co-chaired Paulson’s event, told the FT’s Jamie Smyth that the $50mn showed Trump’s fundraising was in “very, very good shape”....
...For more on this idea, see a recent Prospect piece by Harold Meyerson. Trump is about to become his own worst enemy....
...I very much enjoyed the film itself — so much so in fact that I’m off to see it again tonight — but I think Joe Hisaishi’s score is if anything, even better than the film it was composed for....
...As the former UK prime minister Harold Wilson once said, a week is a long time in politics — an adage I often find myself repeating as the FT’s US political correspondent in a critical election year....
...Wilson’s Downing Street affair | Three decades after Harold Wilson’s death, and 48 years on from the end of his premiership, the former prime minister’s long-serving press secretary Joe Haines has told for...
...Harold Hamm, the shale oil magnate, has also indicated that he is willing to back Trump in the general election despite calling for him to withdraw from the race....
...Business was ready for either Joe Biden or Trump: “My company will survive and thrive in both.” The US Chamber of Commerce has undergone a similar evolution....
...I am a liberal Democrat who supported Karen Bass when Joe Biden was considering a running mate (“The Kamala Harris question”, Opinion, May 18)....
...The risk for Nato would be of it fracturing if capitals were individually to seek to curry favour with Trump, he added....
...When US President Joe Biden gets more engagement than him on a tweet about the Super Bowl, Musk has a spectacular tantrum....
...I would die to be in a room with Carol Burnett and Tim Curry. Million Dollar Mermaid Busby Berkeley does undefinable things in this MGM aqua-musical: his trademark kaleidoscopic routines in water....
...the balance sheets and reform the governance of the Washington-based multilateral lenders have been a central issue at the G20 summit in New Delhi this weekend, partly as a means for western states to curry...
...Both Halfords and Currys, reporting on Wednesday and Thursday respectively, sell big-ticket items, typically shunned by shoppers in an economic squeeze....
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