The strike has forced him to avoid some of his biggest donors, except the one helping run his campaign.
. In the front yard of ex-HBO executive James Costos’s Brentwood home, Biden was fêted by a crowd of 300 who’d been gathered by some of the entertainment business’ highest-flying dealmakers, including Jeffrey Katzenberg , Chris Silbermann , Peter Chernin , and Tom Rothman . With everyone there hitting the legal maximum for donations, it took Biden just a few hours to bring in $750,000.
It didn’t take long for Biden and his advisors to reach a consensus on what to do about Hollywood’s money once the strikes began this spring. With the president leaning heavily on his support from organized labor in his re-election campaign and standing prominently with the strikers as part of that posture, there was no way “Union Joe” could hazard being seen as sympathetic to the studios, no matter how obvious it was that he needs the money.
Ultimately, major Hollywood figures on both sides of the strike are not just supportive of Biden but looped into his broader political operation. “The Katzenbergs of the world are deeply embedded into the culture of the administration right now, but so is a lot of Hollywood that’s not studio heads,” says one senior national-level union official.
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