Former President Joe Biden has reportedly decided to build his presidential library in the state of Delaware. It makes sense, considering that’s where he spent the majority of his time in office.
One of the major challenges for Biden and his loyalists is going to be funding the project. When Biden dropped out of the 2024 race, many people, including a lot of Democrats, suggested that no one is going to want to donate funds to such a project. That sentiment became even stronger after Trump won.
One also has to wonder what is going to be showcased in the library. His disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan? His horrible handling of the economy? Photos of illegals pouring across the open southern border? The autopen?
ABC News reports:
Biden launches fundraising to build presidential library in Delaware
Former President Joe Biden has decided to build his presidential library in Delaware and has tapped a group of former aides, friends and political allies to begin the heavy lift of fundraising and finding a site for the museum and archive.
The Joe and Jill Biden Foundation this past week approved a 13-person governance board that is charged with steering the project. The board includes former Secretary of State Antony Blinken, longtime adviser Steve Ricchetti, prolific Democratic fundraiser Rufus Gifford and others with deep ties to the one-term president and his wife.
Biden’s library team has the daunting task of raising money for the 46th president’s legacy project at a moment when his party has become fragmented about the way ahead and many big Democratic donors have stopped writing checks.
It also remains to be seen whether corporations and institutional donors that have historically donated to presidential library projects — regardless of the party of the former president — will be more hesitant to contribute, with President Donald Trump aligning Biden on a daily basis and savaging groups he deems left-leaning.
President Trump is the least of Biden’s worries on this project. Rank and file Democrat voters are not going to want to donate to this project. They have already said so repeatedly.