Former President Joe Biden is running into a problem in his nascent effort to raise money for a presidential library: Donors are checked out.
“I want an $800,000 refund,” said John Morgan, a Florida-based personal injury lawyer. He was referring to the nearly $1 million he said he raised for Biden that went to then-Vice President Kamala Harris last year, after she assumed Biden’s role as the Democratic presidential nominee.
“I don’t believe a library will ever be built unless it’s a bookmobile from the old days,” added Morgan, who is a longtime Biden devotee.
Susie Buell, a major donor in the Democratic Party, said, “No one has asked, but I am not inclined to give to libraries.”
“I’d like him to have some nice library,” a third donor chimed in. “I just don’t see that’s where I’m going to spend my money.”
And a fourth, who was a Biden bundler and onetime administration official, replied succinctly: “Me? No way.”