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 superstar audio system and visitors 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 in the course of 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 subsequent president of the US” to a standing ovation from the gang.
“Oh, it’s good to be residence,” 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 together with her husband, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff.
Harris shouted out the longtime assist she’s gotten from town in her lengthy political profession, noting, “I go searching this room and there are individuals who have been with me right here each step of the way in which” 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 do know who’s right here and so many people have been concerned each 4 years, and each 4 years we are saying, ‘That is the one’; this right here’s the one,” she continued. “That is in all probability a very powerful election in our lifetime, and it’s in all probability a very powerful within the lifetime of our nation.”
Harris additionally used a lot of her practically 30-minute speech to discuss her opposition, saying, “In some ways Donald Trump is an unserious man, however the penalties of placing him again within the White Home are extraordinarily severe.” She additionally questioned of Venture 2025, the controversial set of conservative coverage proposals to be applied by the following Republican president, “Are you able to consider they put that factor in writing?” and included a quip that whereas campaigning throughout the nation, her “crowds are fairly large.”
“A lot is on the road on this election, and this isn’t 2016 or 2020, it’s completely different for many individuals,” she added, acknowledging the Supreme Courtroom’s ruling on presidential immunity this summer time and musing, “Simply think about 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’re going to win” to huge applause. She continued, “We even have our work minimize out for us. This race is as shut because it could possibly be and we’re the underdog. We’re the underdog, and I’m working just like the underdog.”
The tickets to occasion, with quite a few 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 arms and taking photographs with some members of the gang following her speech, Harris was off to her subsequent cease, hitting a rally in Las Vegas on Sunday night time.