{"id":591865,"date":"2023-09-20T03:53:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T00:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/eric-clapton-helps-raise-1-million-for-rfk-jr-campaign\/"},"modified":"2023-09-20T03:53:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T00:53:43","slug":"eric-clapton-helps-raise-1-million-for-rfk-jr-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/eric-clapton-helps-raise-1-million-for-rfk-jr-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"#Eric Clapton helps raise $1 million for RFK Jr. campaign\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/RFK-Jr..png?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Eric Clapton helped raise $1 million for Democratic candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s presidential campaign at a private fundraiser on Monday night, Kennedy\u2019s campaign announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Clapton and his band performed at an event, which raised a total of $2.2 million, including $1 million for Kennedy\u2019s campaign and $1.2 million for a political action committee supporting him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI am deeply grateful to Eric Clapton for bringing his musical artistry and rebellious spirit to my gathering in Los Angeles last night,\u201d Kennedy said in the press release, which described the Monday night event as a \u201conce-in-a-lifetime musical performance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy\u2019s campaign announced in late August that Clapton would perform at the private fundraiser, which reportedly offered tickets starting at $3,300, up to a maximum of $6,600.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy and Clapton have both been outspoken about their skepticism of vaccines, which has resulted in fierce blowback from the public.<\/p>\n<p>In the statement Tuesday, Kennedy praised Clapton but did not mention their shared skepticism about COVID-19 vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI sometimes think that in our divided society, it is music rather than any kind of intellectual agreement that has the most potential to bring us together again,\u201d Kennedy said in the press release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEric sings from the depths of the human condition. If he sees in me the possibility of bringing unity to our country, it is only possible because artists like him invoke a buried faith in the limitless power of human beings to overcome any obstacle,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Kennedy is one of two long-shot Democratic presidential bids to challenge incumbent President Biden for the Democratic nomination. While neither Kennedy nor author Marianne Williamson have made any significant headway against the president, Kennedy has been critical of efforts of establishment Democrats to block any serious threat to Biden\u2019s campaign.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. All rights reserved. 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Kennedy Jr.\u2019s presidential campaign at a private fundraiser on Monday night, Kennedy\u2019s campaign announced Tuesday. Clapton and his band performed at an event, which raised a total of $2.2 million, including $1 million for Kennedy\u2019s campaign and $1.2 million for a political action committee&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":591866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/RFK-Jr..png?w=1280","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[78209,134343,73798,117364,73014,90482,991,115,91516,134345],"class_list":["post-591865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2024-presidential-election","tag-campaign","tag-defense","tag-eric-clapton","tag-health-care","tag-house","tag-joe-biden","tag-news","tag-robert-f-kennedy-jr","tag-state-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}