After wrapping up a multi-day tour of battleground states, Vice President Kamala Harris will attend a major fundraising event in San Francisco on Sunday to court West Coast donors, some of whom refused support For President Joe Biden following his poor performance at the debates in June.
Harris will attract Bay Area donors, leveraging her deep connections in the area and the political blessing of the former House speaker. Nancy Pelosiwho represented San Francisco in Congress for nearly four decades and will join Harris at Sunday's event, according to a Harris campaign spokesman.
Tickets for the Harris Victory Fund event range from $3,300 to $50,000, and according to a campaign spokesperson, the event sold out with nearly 700 people confirming their attendance, helping raise more than $12 million for the campaign.
The catch is added to the historical one The Harris-Waltz campaign raised $310 million in July, including $36 million raised in the 24 hours after Harris announced her choice of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate.
Walz will not attend Sunday's fundraiser with Harris, according to a campaign spokesman, who said the event will focus on Harris and her ties to her home state of California after the pair spent a week together traveling the country.
After campaigning in Las Vegas with Harris on Saturday, Walz will fly to Minnesota for the weekend, the Harris-Walz campaign told NBC News, adding that he will be on the East Coast next week.
Pelosi's speech on Sunday will be the latest in a major shift in the president's longtime ally and friend's stance. which played a decisive role behind the scenes role in the Democrats' pressure campaign gently nudge him out of the 2024 race.
During a performance on July 10th On MSNBC's “Morning Joe,” Biden's favorite show, the former House speaker said Biden has “little time left” to decide on his reelection plans — even though he and his campaign have insisted he will stay in the race.
In a private phone call a week after her MSNBC appearance, Pelosi warned Biden that his decision to stay in the race could cost Democrats the House and Senate, as well as the presidency, sources told NBC News.
Pelosi, who endorsed Harris about 24 hours after Biden dropped out of the race, elaborated on her thinking in an interview this week about her new book, “The Art of Power.”
She told The New Yorker's David Remnick: in a podcast that the Biden campaign was not “confronted with the fact of what was happening” and that she had “never been more impressed [Biden’s] “political operation.”
“My concern was: This is not happening, and we have to make a decision to make it happen. The president has to make a decision to make it happen,” she said.
In an interview with NBC's Andrea Mitchell on Wednesday, Pelosi said, “But it wasn't just the House. I thought it was very important, very important for us to make sure that Donald Trump never becomes president after this debate. We just need to win the election.”
She also said she had not spoken to the president since he resigned.
Asked about the possibility of returning to a friendship with Biden during a recorded interview on MSNBC's “Inside Jen Psaki” that aired Sunday, Pelosi noted the love and respect that three generations of her family, including herself and her husband, have for Biden. Paul PelosiShe added that she hopes “that continues as we move forward.”
Pelosi continued, saying that winning the November election is a top priority to “preserve his legacy.”
“One good day, and then another,” Pelosi said. “No time wasted, no resources underutilized, and no regrets the day after the election about how we could have done more.”
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