Joe Biden has signed with Creative Artists Agency for representation as he begins his post-presidential era.
“President Biden is one of America’s most respected and influential voices in national and global affairs,” said Richard Lovett, co-chairman of CAA. “His lifelong commitment to public service is one of unity, optimism, dignity, and possibility. We are profoundly honored to partner with him again.”
Lovett, along with fellow co-chairs Bryan Lourd and Kevin Huvane, has been among Hollywood’s prominent backers of Biden and Kamala Harris’ re-election campaign as well as other Democratic candidates.
The Century City-based mega agency already reps his White House predecessor via Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions, as well as Democratic-leaning pols like Joe Manchin, Susan Rice, Beto O’Rourke and many others across the aisle as part of its speakers bureau.
And the move for the Delaware politician marks a homecoming for Biden and the agency, which had repped him during his post-vice presidential wilderness years from 2017 through his 2020 victory over Donald Trump. In that time, Biden published a book, Promise Me, Dad, reflecting on his eldest son Beau’s battle with cancer, as well as embarked on a nationwide paid speaking tour that sold 85,000 tickets.
Biden formally oversaw the transition of power on Jan. 20 to the second Trump administration and hasn’t yet unveiled typical post-presidential moves like a book deal or speaking gigs (or any sort of first-look or streaming deal).
Days earlier, he gave a farewell TV interview to Lawrence O’Donnell at MSNBC in the Oval Office that highlighted his concern about the state of democracy stateside. “I really am concerned about how fragile democracy is. That sounds corny,” he said. “But I mean, I really, really am concerned, because you’ve heard me say it 100 times, I really think we’re in an inflection point in history here.”
The Democratic party, however, is focused on determining its identity without Biden or Harris as its standard bearers. On Feb. 1, the Democratic National Committee picked Minnesotan Ken Martin as its next chair to lead the party as Trump takes power.
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