President Barack Obama will attend his 100th reelection fundraiser Thursday night, and GOP officials are using the occasion to portray him as focused on politics, rather than on the nation’s stalled economy.
Obama has had 100 fundraisers since he announced in April that he would run for reelection. But according to a calculation by the Republican National Committee, Obama has had only about 25 recorded meetings with his Defense Secretary, Treasury Secretary or his Secretary of State over that period.
The President’s 100 fundraisers add up to 10 times as many town halls as he has had with with the public, 14 times as many press conferences, and 50 times as many joint meetings with all four leaders in the House and Senate, the RNC said in a statement. The statement is intended to shape media coverage of Obama’s planned four fundraisers in New York this evening.
A matching RNC video ends with the claim that “After four years of failed policies, he’ll need every penny.”
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