During a campaign swing through Wisconsin last week, President Joe Biden met privately with the billionaire owner of the Milwaukee Bucks, Wes Edens, and the team’s head coach Doc Rivers, according to three people familiar with the previously unreported meeting but not authorized to speak about it publicly.
The talk took place at a downtown hotel last Wednesday following an official
event at a Milwaukee Boys and Girls Club highlighting the administration’s Reconnecting Communities initiative, a push to direct infrastructure dollars to overlooked communities.
The meeting illuminates an emerging pattern for the president, in which he sets aside time while traveling to hold one-on-one discussions with a range of individuals. That has included a new generation of mega-donors who can extend his financial advantage over presumptive Republican nominee, Donald Trump.