Vice President Kamala Harris’ return to the San Francisco Bay Area in California has proven to be a lucrative one.
The Democratic presidential candidate’s campaign says Harris raised more than $12 million Sunday at a fundraiser held at San Francisco’s famed Fairmont Hotel atop Nob Hill.
Harris has enjoyed a fundraising boost after replacing President Biden three weeks ago as the 2024 Democratic leader, and her July haul was more than double that of former President Trump, the Republican presidential nominee.
And Harris saw another fundraising boost after naming Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate on Tuesday.
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Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris (L) and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, gesture during a campaign rally at the Thomas and Mack Center, University of Nevada in Las Vegas, Nevada, August 10, 2024. (RONDA CHURCHILL/AFP via Getty Images)
The vice president and Walz quickly hit the campaign trail, touring the key states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona and Nevada, drawing large crowds at each stop.
“The energy is undeniable,” Harris told the crowd at the fundraiser, pointing to her campaign movement. “The crowd is huge. But what’s even better is that, like last night in Las Vegas, people are signing up by the thousands to volunteer.”
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But the vice president acknowledged that in the race against Trump, “we have a lot of work to do” and stressed that “we cannot take anything for granted in this critical moment.”
Harris was introduced at the fundraiser by former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has represented San Francisco in Congress for nearly four decades.
“It’s a great day to welcome Kamala Harris to California,” Pelosi said. “She makes us all so proud. She brings us so much joy and hope.”
Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris arrives to speak at a campaign rally, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)
Comments from Pelosi, who remains a key power broker within the Democratic Party, were seen as crucial in persuading Biden last month to suspend his re-election bid and back Harris after her disastrous performance against Trump in their late June debate.
Biden’s rambling and uneven debate responses fueled questions about the 81-year-old president’s physical and mental capacity to handle four more years in the White House, and sparked a chorus of calls within his own party to end his 2024 bid.
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After Biden repeatedly insisted he was staying in the race, Pelosi’s comments in a high-profile television interview suggesting the president had not yet decided whether to continue running or drop out served as a signal to other Democrats to call on Biden to end his campaign.
Pelosi, a longtime ally and friend of the president, praised Biden’s accomplishments in the White House while criticizing his now-defunct reelection campaign.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi admitted in a recent interview that there is no path to victory for President Biden. (Left: (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images), Right: Photographer: Sergio Flores/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Harris was born in Oakland, California, and spent the first twelve years of her childhood in the San Francisco Bay Area. Harris served as a prosecutor in Alameda County and then in San Francisco before being elected district attorney of the city in 2002.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a longtime Harris ally who was also a top Biden appointee before the president dropped his reelection bid, was also at Sunday’s fundraiser.
Tickets for the event cost between $3,300 to get in and $500,000, according to an invitation obtained by Fox News.
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