Obama to hold joint fundraiser for Biden next week

FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2016, file photo, President Barack Obama listens as Vice President Joe Biden speaks in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. Biden is getting some help from Obama as he looks to fill his campaign coffers and unify the Democratic party ahead of the November election. Obama and Biden will appear together Tuesday, June 23, for a virtual grassroots fundraiser, the former vice president announced on Twitter. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File) (Carolyn Kaster, Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

WASHINGTON – Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is getting some help from his “former boss," Barack Obama, as he looks to fill his campaign coffers and unify the Democratic Party ahead of the November election.

The former president and Biden will appear together next Tuesday for a “virtual grassroots fundraiser,” the former vice president announced on Twitter. It will be the first time the two have appeared together since Obama endorsed Biden in April.

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Biden's tweet linked to a campaign fundraising page and to a form for those who want to ask a question of the two Democrats.

The announcement Monday came hours after Biden said that his campaign and associated Democratic groups had raised $81 million in May — his strongest-ever fundraising haul.

President Donald Trump's campaign has yet to release its fundraising total for the month.