Vice President Kamala Harris swooped into the San Gabriel Valley on Wednesday night, June 26, attracting major campaign donors and supporters at a fundraising event hosted at a Bradbury mansion one day before the first presidential debate.
Harris arrived at 6:43 p.m. to speak at the “Biden Victory Fund” fundraiser event hosted at the Bradbury home of Dr. Asif Mahmood, tucked away in an affluent gated community in the small San Gabriel Valley city.
Bradbury, a small city at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains, in Los Angeles County, is home to about 1,000 residents.
Mahmood, a Pakistani-born local physician and pulmonologist who himself ran for Congress two years ago, introduced Harris who thanked Mahmood for his years of support.
Harris stood under an outdoor awning in the backyard of the large Bradbury home. About 50 people sat poolside on white folding chairs.
Silver catering trays lined one side of the walkway around the pool and guests stood under large white umbrellas to escape the heat prior to the vice president’s arrival.
The remarks came a day before President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump take part in the first of two presidential debates ahead of November’s election.
Harris is scheduled to speak Friday at an event in Los Angeles.
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Harris’s visit this week follows a string of high-profile visits from the Biden and Trump camps as the November election gets closer.
California is safely a blue state in terms of electing a president. And so while it won’t make a difference on the electoral map. It will when it comes to campaign coffers.
Harris last visited Southern California at the end of May. The intermittent seven-day trip included an appearance on the Jimmy Kimmel Show and flights to San Diego for a fundraiser and to Seattle for political events.
Last year, Harris spoke at a fundraiser in Brentwood, where she has a home. The fundraiser raised around $500,000 for the Biden reelection campaign.
Biden and Trump recently visited Los Angeles for fundraising events.
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Biden’s recent visit to L.A., headlined by an appearance at an LA Live event at the Peacock Theater was attended by about 7,000 people, and featured emcee and late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel who interviewed Biden, as well as former President Barack Obama and Hollywood superstars Julia Roberts and George Clooney.
It raised $30 million as Biden spoke about the economy, abortion rights and threats to America’s democracy.
But California, and Southern California at that, has been no stranger to the Republican party nor to Trump.
The former president, and the Republican party’s presumptive nominee for the presidency, appeared at a bayfront Newport Beach mansion on June 8, with promises to defeat “crooked Joe Biden” in November.
His America First platform has included pledges to keep the nation out of foreign wars and shutting down the border.
The campaign continued to slam the Biden administration on Wednesday, while also touting massive campaign contributions, even after Trump was convicted by a New York jury that found him guilty of all 34 charges in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through a hush money payment to a porn actor who said the two had sex.
“Biden is desperate to distract from the sputtering economy and open border,” read one campaign missive on Wednesday.
“The Biden Administration has a failed track record, and the American people feel it every day. Voters aren’t buying the Biden Campaign’s snake oil — and hundreds of millions in ads aren’t helping.”
Trump has not yet named his own running mate, a potential vice presidential successor to Harris. But speculation has centered around North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.
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