Vice President Kamala Harris was attending a campaign fundraiser in downtown Los Angeles Sunday — her first local fundraiser since replacing President Joe Biden as the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee.
Harris’ motorcade departed from her Brentwood residence at 1:55 p.m. Sunday en route to the J.W. Marriott at LA Live, where the fundraiser was being held, according to a White House press pool report.
According to an invitation first obtained by Deadline, tickets ranged from $500 per person to as high as $1 million for four tickets, a reception with Harris, lunch and a photo. Proceeds will benefit the Harris Victory Fund, which is a joint committee that includes Harris’ campaign, the Democratic National Committee and state Democratic parties.
Harris arrived in Los Angeles on Saturday after speaking for nearly 30 minutes at a sold-out fundraiser at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco where tickets were up to $250,000 each.
The vice president spent Friday in Arizona, making a high-profile visit to the U.S.-Mexico border. Harris has drawn criticism from her opponent, former President Donald Trump, and from other Republicans for not visiting the border enough after Biden tasked her with looking into the root causes of the illegal immigration crisis.
“I reject the false choice that we must decide between securing our border and creating a system of immigration that is safe, orderly, and humane.,” Harris said Saturday on X, formerly Twitter. “We can and we must do both. I was attorney general of a border state [California]. Stopping transnational criminal organizations and strengthening our border is not new to me. I have done that work, and as president … I will continue to treat it as a priority.”
Trump was in the Southland on Sept. 12-13 when he attended a fundraiser in the Beverly Hills area and held a news conference at the Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes.
The former president criticized Harris’ border visit on Saturday.
“Kamala Harris can never be forgiven for her erasing our border and she must never be allowed to become president of the United States,” Trump said at a rally in Wisconsin. “She’s letting in people who are going to walk into your house, break into your door.”
Following Sunday’s Los Angeles gathering, Harris is scheduled to fly to Nevada for another fundraiser.