President Joe Biden landed at San Francisco Worldwide Airport on Wednesday afternoon as he visits the Bay Space for a number of fundraising occasions till departure on Thursday.
The president started his current marketing campaign in Los Angeles on Tuesday, making an attempt to make up for misplaced time whereas largely avoiding the Southern California stronghold for Democratic donors throughout final 12 months's strikes by the Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA.
After making remarks at an official occasion in Culver Metropolis the place he mentioned the cancellation of federal pupil loans to 153,000Biden left Los Angeles on Air Pressure One and arrived at San Francisco Worldwide Airport round 3 pm He was greeted when he landed by Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and San Francisco Mayor London Breed.
He and Pelosi have been then flown by way of Marine One helicopter to San Francisco's Marina Inexperienced earlier than showing at two non-public marketing campaign occasions within the metropolis. The primary occasion passed off at 4:15 pm — later revealed to be on the residence of investor and enterprise capitalist John Doerr — and the second began at 6:45 pm on Wednesday evening.
Whereas the White Home has not launched any particular data relating to the 2 marketing campaign occasions, the second occasion was a dinner hosted by businessman Gordon Getty, actual property mogul George Marcus and his spouse Judy. The dinner may even embrace Pelosi as a visitor.
It was later confirmed that the situation for the fundraiser was Getty's residence.
On Thursday, the president will make an look at one other non-public marketing campaign occasion in Los Altos Hills earlier than leaving the area within the afternoon, in accordance with the White Home. Thursday morning, the situation of the two:45 pm occasion was confirmed to be the house of actual property developer Robert Klein. He and his spouse Danielle are the hosts.
Earlier within the day, President Biden met with Yulia and Dasha Navalnayathe widow and daughter of Russian dissident Aleksey Navalny who at an arctic penal colony final weekto supply their condolences for his or her loss.
The President final visited the Bay Space in November for the Asia-Pacific Financial Summitwhen he assembly with Chinese language President Xi Jinping on the Filoli Historic Home & Backyard in Woodside.
There was a small pro-Palestinian protest in San Francisco's Alta Plaza Park after the arrival of President Biden as activists known as for a ceasefire in Gaza and the president to finish help to Israel.
A bigger group of pro-Palestinian supporters gathered on Wednesday evening, protest in Pacific Heights not removed from the place the Biden marketing campaign occasion was held.
There was a number of main demonstrations when the president final visited San Francisco throughout APEC, together with the closure of the Bay Bridge throughout the morning commute on November 16 which led to dozens of arrests.
President Biden is scheduled to depart San Francisco Worldwide Airport shortly after 4:00 p.m. Thursday en path to Joint Base Andrews.
