After wrapping up a multi-day battleground state tour, Vice President Kamala Harris will attend a major fundraiser in San Francisco on Sunday for West Coast donors, some of whom had pulled out President Joe Biden in June after his poor debate performance.
Harris is courting Bay Area donors using his deep regional roots and the political blessing of a former House speaker Nancy Pelosiwho has represented San Francisco for nearly four decades in Congress and will join Harris at Sunday’s event, according to a Harris campaign official.
Tickets for the Harris Victory Fund event range from $3,300 to $50,000, and a campaign official says the event has sold out with nearly 700 RSVPs, raising more than $12 million for the campaign.
The bill adds to the historic $310 million raised by the Harris-Walz campaign in July, which included $36 million raised in the 24 hours after Harris announced his choice of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as his running mate.
Walz will not attend Sunday’s fundraiser with Harris, according to a campaign official who said that after a week in one country, the focus of this event will be on Harris and his ties to his home state of California.
After campaigning in Las Vegas with Harris on Saturday, Walz will fly to Minnesota, where he will stay for the rest of the weekend, the Harris-Walz campaign told NBC News, adding that he will be on the East Coast next week.
Pelosi’s appearance on Sunday is the latest step in a major shakeup by the president’s longtime ally and friend. He played a critical, behind-the-scenes role in the Democratic pressure campaign to gently encourage him to drop out of the 2024 race.
In a July 10 appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Biden’s favorite show, the former House speaker said time was “running out” for Biden to decide on his re-election plans, despite insistence by him and his campaign that he stay on board. competitive.
In a private 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 and the presidency, sources told NBC News.
Pelosi, who endorsed Harris about 24 hours after Biden dropped out of the race, explained more about her thinking in interviews this week related to her new book, “The Art of Power.”
He told New Yorker David Remnick’s podcast that the Biden campaign “didn’t see the reality of what was going on” and that he had never been so impressed. [Biden’s] a political operation.”
“My concern was: This is not going to happen, and we have to make a decision to make this happen. The president has to make a decision to make it happen,” he said.
In an interview with NBC’s Andrea Mitchell on Wednesday, Pelosi said, “It wasn’t just about the House, though. I think it was very important, very important that we can make sure and that Donald Trump never becomes president after this debate. We just have to win the election.”
He also said he had not spoken to the president since he resigned.
This article was originally published on NBCNews.com
