Kamala Harris‘ presidential marketing campaign rolled into Los Angeles on Sunday afternoon, marking her first main fundraiser within the metropolis and bringing alongside a starry group of supporters.
The vice chairman hosted a day occasion on the J.W. Marriott in downtown Los Angeles, with a lineup of movie star audio system and friends that included Stevie Marvel, Sterling Okay. Brown, Lily Tomlin, Demi Lovato, Keegan-Michael Key and Jessica Alba; Alanis Morissette and Halle Bailey additionally carried out through the fundraiser.
Contained in the occasion — press was solely allowed in for Harris’ remarks — the presidential candidate took the stage to Beyoncé’s hit music “Freedom,” alongside an announcer declaring, “please welcome our next president of the United States” to a standing ovation from the group.
“Oh, it’s good to be home,” Harris responded to the applause; although she grew up in Oakland, she has deep ties to Los Angeles, nonetheless proudly owning a house in Brentwood along with her husband, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff.
Harris shouted out the longtime help she’s gotten from town in her lengthy political profession, noting, “I look around this room and there are people who have been with me here every step of the way” and later referred to herself as “a proud daughter of California.”
The Democratic nominee started by acknowledging there are simply 37 days till Election Day. “I know who’s here and so many of us have been involved every four years, and every four years we say, ‘This is the one’; this here’s the one,” she continued. “This is probably the most important election in our lifetime, and it’s probably the most important in the life of our country.”
Harris additionally used a lot of her almost 30-minute speech to discuss her opposition, saying, “In many ways Donald Trump is an unserious man, but the consequences of putting him back in the White House are extremely serious.” She additionally questioned of Challenge 2025, the controversial set of conservative coverage proposals to be applied by the following Republican president, “Can you believe they put that thing in writing?” and included a quip that whereas campaigning throughout the nation, her “crowds are pretty big.”
“So much is on the line in this election, and this is not 2016 or 2020, it’s different for many people,” she added, acknowledging the Supreme Court docket’s ruling on presidential immunity this summer time and musing, “Just imagine Donald Trump with no guardrails.”
Harris wound down with repeating how shut the election now’s and the way early voting has already begun in similar states, saying, “Let me be clear, we are going to win” to huge applause. She continued, “We also have our work cut out for us. This race is as close as it could be and we are the underdog. We are the underdog, and I’m running like the underdog.”
The tickets to occasion, with a variety of Hollywood brokers and publicists additionally noticed within the crowd, ranged from $500 to $250,000; Deadline reported over $28 million was raised on the fundraiser. After shaking fingers and taking pictures with some members of the group following her speech, Harris was off to her subsequent cease, hitting a rally in Las Vegas on Sunday evening.
