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Vice President Kamala Harris’s homecoming in California’s San Francisco Bay Space proved very profitable.
The Democratic presidential nominee’s marketing campaign says that Harris hauled in over $12 million Sunday at a fundraiser held at San Francisco’s famed Fairmont Resort atop Nob Hill.
Harris has loved a surge in fundraising after changing President Biden three weeks in the past atop the Democrats’ 2024 ticket, and her July haul was greater than double that of former President Trump, the GOP presidential nominee.
And Harris noticed one other spike in fundraising after naming Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her working mate on Tuesday.
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Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris (L) and her working mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, gesture throughout a marketing campaign rally on the Thomas and Mack Heart, College of Nevada in Las Vegas, Nevada, on August 10, 2024. (RONDA CHURCHILL/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
The vice chairman and Walz rapidly hit the marketing campaign path, with a swing by the important thing battleground states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, and Nevada that drew massive crowds at each cease.
“The vitality is simple,” Harris instructed the viewers on the fundraiser, as she pointed in the direction of her marketing campaign swing. “The crowds are massive. However even higher is the truth that, like final night time in Las Vegas, attendees are signing up for volunteer shifts by the 1000’s.”
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However the vice chairman acknowledged that within the race towards Trump, “we’ve plenty of work to do,” and emphasised that “we will take nothing with no consideration on this vital second.”
Harris was launched on the fundraiser by former Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has represented San Francisco in Congress for practically 4 a long time.
“It is a good day, once we welcome Kamala Harris dwelling to California,” Pelosi stated. “She makes us all so proud. She brings us a lot pleasure. She provides us a lot hope.”
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris arrives to talk at a marketing campaign rally, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024, in Las Vegas. (AP Picture/Julia Nikhinson)
Feedback by Pelosi, who stays a key energy dealer within the Democratic Occasion, have been thought-about essential in persuading Biden final month to droop his re-election bid and endorse Harris following his disastrous efficiency towards Trump of their late June debate.
Biden’s rambling and uneven solutions on the debate fueled questions over whether or not the 81-year-old president had the bodily and psychological talents to deal with one other 4 years within the White Home, and sparked a refrain of calls from inside his personal get together to finish his 2024 bid.
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After Biden repeatedly insisted that he was staying within the race, Pelosi’s feedback in a excessive profile TV interview suggesting that the president had not but selected whether or not to maintain working or drop out served as a sign for different Democrats to name on Biden to finish his marketing campaign.
Pelosi, a longtime ally and good friend of the president, has praised Biden’s White Home achievements whereas additionally criticizing his now defunct re-election marketing campaign.
Former Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi admitted that there was no path to victory for President Biden throughout a current interview. (Left: (Picture by Paul Morigi/Getty Pictures), Proper: Photographer: Sergio Flores/Bloomberg by way of Getty Pictures)
Harris was born in close by Oakland, California and spent the primary 12 years of her childhood within the Bay Space. Harris served as a prosecutor in Alameda County and later in San Francisco earlier than profitable election in 2002 as town’s district legal professional.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a longtime Harris ally who was additionally a prime surrogate for Biden earlier than the president dropped his re-election bid, additionally appeared at Sunday’s fundraiser.
Tickets for the occasion ranged from $3,300 to get within the door all the way in which as much as $500,000, in accordance with an invite obtained by Fox Information.
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Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter primarily based in New Hampshire.
