Former President Donald Trump visited Southern California on Friday throughout his first main marketing campaign fundraiser this weekend.
Trump held an occasion in Beverly Hills on Friday evening hosted by businessman Lee Samson earlier than heading to Newport Seashore on Saturday evening for one more occasion.
Tickets for the non-public fundraiser in Beverly Hills began at $5,000, a photograph alternative with Trump was priced at $40,000, spherical desk seating was $100,000 and to turn out to be an occasion chair required $250,000, based on the Los Angeles GOP web site.
Following his conviction on 34 felony prices on Might 30, the Republican presidential candidate introduced that his marketing campaign obtained greater than $34 million that very same day.
On Thursday, Trump held an occasion in San Francisco hosted by David Sacks, a enterprise capitalist and former PayPal govt, alongside together with his spouse, Jacqueline Sacks, and enterprise capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya. He stated he raised about $12 million at that occasion.
Trump will journey to Newport Seashore for Saturday's occasion that will probably be hosted by John Phrase, the co-founder of a medical health insurance firm. Tickets for that occasion vary from $3,300 to $100,000 per particular person.
Trump is scheduled to be sentenced on July 11, days earlier than he’s anticipated to be formally introduced because the GOP's presidential nominee on the Republican Nationwide Conference in Milwaukee.
This journey marks Trump's first go to to Southern California because the Anaheim GOP Conference in September 2023.
President Joe Biden will go to Southern California subsequent weekend for a significant fundraiser on the Peacock Theater in downtown LA that can embrace appearances by former President Barack Obama and celebrities akin to George Clooney and Julia Roberts.