First Lady Dr. Jill Biden touched down at Burbank Airport on Friday to make a withdrawal from the reelection campaign ATM known as Los Angeles’ wealthy Democratic families.
She and her daughter Ashley Biden arrived around 4:30 p.m. on a bright and breezy afternoon and were greeted on the tarmac by L.A.Mayor Karen Bass, Burbank Mayor Nick Shultz and his wife Allie Shultz, as well as L.A. County Supervisor Hilda Solis and her husband Sam Sayyad. The Bidens then headed directly to a campaign fundraiser at the private residence of Dr. Patricia Gordon in Hancock Park.
Also on the agenda during the First Lady’s four-day swing through the Southland, is a Saturday fundraiser in Rancho Mirage, anoher Saturday speech at the Human Rights Campaign’s 2024 Los Angeles Dinner and a Monday talk on the White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research at the Getty Center in Los Angeles.
Around 50 people attended Friday evening’s reception, which host Patricia Gordon said raised over $1 million dollars for the Biden Victory Fund — more than any other fundraiser headlined by the First Lady.
“It’s amazing that you and your host committee have raised that amount of money,” said Biden. “I mean, honestly, it’s overwhelming. I cannot wait to get off the stage and then I can call Joe and tell him.”
During a 10-minute speech she reminisced on her early days of dating President Joe Biden, outlined his major accomplishments as president and impressed upon attendees the urgency of reelecting him in November.
“We have to meet this moment as if our rights are at stake because they are and as if our democracy is on the line because it is,” she said. “Joe is working tirelessly to defend our freedoms and our futures and our democracy, but he needs you to help him finish the job.”
She proudly touted his record in office including passing “the boldest climate change legislation in American history,” appointing Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court and…
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