Updated 4 p.m. Monday
President Joe Biden ramps up his reelection effort this week with four fundraisers in the San Francisco area, as his campaign builds up its coffers and lays strategic foundations for 2024.
In the back half of June, Biden’s campaign will have more than 20 fundraisers involving him, Vice President Kamala Harris, first lady Jill Biden and second gentleman Douglas Emhoff, according to a person involved in Biden’s travel plans who insisted on anonymity to discuss the schedule.
More than half of the fundraisers are with the Democratic president, who arrived in California on Monday and was greeted by Gov. Gavin Newsom. Biden also will be traveling to New York, Maryland and Illinois. The president hit the themes of his campaign at a Friday fundraising event in Connecticut, saying his goal is to do more to tell voters about his legislative accomplishments with infrastructure, computer chip production and programs for responding to climate change, among other policies.
At the first of two Monday fundraisers, Biden said democracy itself was at stake in the 2024 election and that his administration had reinstilled “a sense of confidence in the Constitution.” The fundraiser at the home of Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott was co-hosted by Reid Hoffman, the billionaire co-founder of LinkedIn.