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Harris will be headlining the Democratic Party of Georgia's
Spring Soiree fundraiser - a gathering expected to have hundreds
of attendees. She will also attend a private fundraiser hosted
by the Democratic National Committee, a White House official
said.
The events come a day after Biden began his 2024 fundraising
spree and attended two events in New York hosted by wealthy
donors, where he addressed concerns about his age and said the
upcoming campaign could be "a pretty ugly" one. The president
launched his re-election bid in April with a promise to protect
personal freedoms.
Georgia, which was considered safely Republican just a decade
ago, has since seen significant change as Black voters,
college-educated suburban women and young adults become more
politically active.
Harris played a key role in mobilizing those voters ahead of the
midterms with a focus on abortion rights to help boost turnout
for Democrats. Biden won the state by a narrow margin in 2020.
Biden and Harris face significant political headwinds in their
bid for a second term, including low approval numbers and
concerns about Biden's age. Political strategists have said
Harris's appeal as a fundraiser for the re-election campaign
will be tested in the coming months.
Harris's 2020 campaign 'Kamala Harris for the People' raised
over $40 million, with nearly 57% coming from large
contributors, according to campaign finance records.
Harris cited a lack of "financial resources" when she dropped
out of the 2020 presidential campaign but had a bundler donation
list that spanned from Wall Street to Silicon Valley that was
considered among the most valuable in the 2020 field. She is
expected to tap those resources in 2024.
In April, Biden and Harris met 150 high-dollar donors and
fundraisers in Washington, who will tap their networks to help
fund their campaign over the next 18 months.
Biden's campaign in 2020 was the first presidential campaign in
history to raise over $1 billion. Campaign officials say it may
need well more than $1 billion this time to re-elect Biden, hold
the Senate and regain control of the House of Representatives,
which Republicans took in the 2022 midterm elections.
(Reporting by Nandita Bose in Washington, Editing by Chris
Sanders and Edwina Gibbs)
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