WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama is holding a private fundraiser at a hotel near the White House to bolster his re-election effort.
The Obama campaign says the fundraiser at the W Hotel is with about 20 supporters paying $40,000 a person to attend. The campaign said the president was also giving a campaign update to 25 supporters before the fundraiser.
The money will benefit the Obama Victory Fund, a joint fundraising committee of the Obama campaign, the Democratic National Committee and several state Democratic parties. Both events were closed to reporters.
Obama has trailed Republican candidate Mitt Romney in fundraising during the past three months. Obama and the DNC raised $75 million in July, well below the $101 million that Romney and the Republican National Committee raised during the month.
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Morrissey has lashed out at the London 2012 Olympics, saying that since the opening ceremony took place the nation has become ?foul with patriotism?. Morrissey urged Britain to ?wake up? (Picture: File) The Smiths singer is well known for spewing bile over all that he dislikes, with reggae, Band Aid, Elton John and Chinese people having all strayed into his crosshairs in the past, but now his harsh words have been concentrated on the Olympics. Most of Britain were celebrating three gold medals on Saturday night, but Morrissey found himself unable to watch due to the atmosphere of ?blustering jingoism? surrounding the Games. In a lengthy letter sent to members of his True To You fan club, he likens London 2012 to ?the spirit of 1939 Germany?, encouraging viewers to ?wake up?. Brits have been tuning into the London 2012 Olympics in their many millions (Picture: PA) The full text of his letter reads as follows: ?I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so foul with patriotism? The ?dazzling royals? have, quite naturally, hi-jacked the Olympics for their own empirical needs, and no oppositional voice is allowed in the free press. It is lethal to witness. ?As London is suddenly promoted as a super-wealth brand, the England outside London shivers beneath cutbacks, tight circumstances and economic disasters. Meanwhile the British media present 24-hour coverage of the ?dazzling royals?, laughing as they lavishly spend, as if such coverage is certain to make British society feel fully whole. In 2012, the British public is evidently assumed to be undersized pigmies, scarcely able to formulate thought. Jessica Ennis shows off her gold medal to the crowd in Hyde Park yesterday at a BT London Live Olympic celebration (Picture: PA) ?As I recently drove through Greece I noticed repeated graffiti seemingly everywhere on every available wall. In large blue letters it said WAKE UP WAKE UP. It could almost have been written with the British public in mind, because although the spirit of 1939 Germany now pervades throughout media-brand Britain, the 2013 grotesque inevitability of Lord and Lady Beckham (with Sir Jamie Horrible close at heel) is, believe me, a fate worse than life. WAKE UP WAKE UP.? The news comes after Morrissey criticised Olympics organisers for not including The Smiths in the music for the opening ceremony. Team GB has enjoyed unprecedented success at this year?s Games, being top of the leader board for athletics after two days of competition. Pictures: Window on the London 2012 Olympics 
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