--- title: Hillary Clinton Raffles Evening With Her and the Clooneys description: An evening with the Democratic front-runner and George and Amal Clooney is being raffled as part of a series of campaign events canonical: https://time.com/4263871/hillary-clinton-george-amal-clooney-fundraiser/ author: Nash Jenkins article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-18T03:50:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:46:20.667Z article:section: Politics og:title: Spend an Evening the Clooneys and Hillary Clinton og:description: The opportunity is being raffled as part of a series of fundraising events. og:url: https://time.com/4263871/hillary-clinton-george-amal-clooney-fundraiser/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta15c442a1e389e22/69888b89ab6d77b81f6a8e67/gettyimages-510547762.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4200 og:image:height: 2363 og:image:alt: Premiere Of Universal Pictures' "Hail, Caesar!" og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Spend an Evening the Clooneys and Hillary Clinton twitter:description: The opportunity is being raffled as part of a series of fundraising events. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta15c442a1e389e22/69888b89ab6d77b81f6a8e67/gettyimages-510547762.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # You Could Spend an Evening With Clinton and the Clooneys > Sponsored content. 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Lawyer Amal Clooney and actor George Clooney arrive at the premiere of Hail, Caesar! at Regency Village Theatre on Feb. 1, 2016, in Westwood, Calif. Axelle/Bauer-Griffin—FilmMagic by [Nash Jenkins](https://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/) ## Nash Jenkins Mar 18, 2016 3:50 AM UTC George and Amal Clooney will be sponsoring a series of campaign events for Hillary Clinton in California next month. You can join them, if you’d like: _People_ [reports](http://www.people.com/article/george-amal-clooney-dinner-hillary-clinton) that the Clinton campaign is running a raffle that will give her supporters the opportunity to spend an evening with her and the Clooneys. The raffle is open now — supporters in the U.S. can text CLOONEY to 47246 to throw their hats into the ring — and the event, which will center around dinner and cocktails at the Clooneys’ home, will take place in April. George Clooney has been an outspoken supporter of Clinton’s campaign, pledging last summer in an interview with Fusion to offer “whatever she wants, whatever way I can help” to get the former Secretary of State into the White House. He has also condemned Republican front-runner Donald Trump as a “xenophobic fascist” whose suggestion that the U.S. close its borders to Muslims is a “massively stupid idea.” Clooney’s voice has been politically influential in the past. In 2012, he held a [fundraiser](http://edition.cnn.com/2012/05/11/politics/california-obama-fundraiser/) for President Barack Obama during his campaign for reelection; the event grossed $15 million. \[[_People_](http://www.people.com/article/george-amal-clooney-dinner-hillary-clinton)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4263871/hillary-clinton-george-amal-clooney-fundraiser/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4263871/hillary-clinton-george-amal-clooney-fundraiser/"},"headline":"You Could Spend an Evening With Clinton and the Clooneys","datePublished":"2016-03-18T03:50:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:46:20.667Z","description":"An evening with the Democratic frontrunner and George and Amal Clooney is being raffled as part of a series of campaign events","url":"https://time.com/4263871/hillary-clinton-george-amal-clooney-fundraiser/","keywords":["2016 Election","Hillary Clinton","2016 Election","politics","George Clooney","Donald Trump","Amal Clooney"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta15c442a1e389e22/69888b89ab6d77b81f6a8e67/gettyimages-510547762.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nash Jenkins","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta15c442a1e389e22/69888b89ab6d77b81f6a8e67/gettyimages-510547762.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Premiere Of Universal Pictures' \"Hail, Caesar!\"","caption":"Premiere Of Universal Pictures' \"Hail, Caesar!\"","creditText":"Axelle/Bauer-Griffin—FilmMagic","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4263871/hillary-clinton-george-amal-clooney-fundraiser/","name":"You Could Spend an Evening With Clinton and the Clooneys"}}]}] ```