Donald Trump visits Southern California on campaign fundraising tour
Vivian Chow
Former President Donald Trump visited Southern California Friday during his first major campaign fundraiser swing happening this weekend.
Trump held a Beverly Hills event Friday night hosted by businessman Lee Samson before heading to Newport Beach on Saturday night for another event.
Tickets to the private Beverly Hills fundraiser started at $5,000, a photo opportunity with Trump was priced at $40,000, roundtable seating was $100,000 and to become an event chair required $250,000, according to the Los Angeles GOP website.
On the heels of his conviction on 34 felony charges on May 30, the Republican presidential candidate announced his campaign received over $34 million on the same day.
On Thursday, Trump held an event in San Francisco hosted by David Sacks, a venture capitalist and former PayPal executive, along with his wife, Jacqueline Sacks, and venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya. He reportedly raised around $12 million at that event.
Trump will head to Newport Beach for Saturday’s event which will be hosted by John Word, the co-founder of a health insurance company. Tickets for that event range from $3,300 to $100,000 per person.
Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally, Thursday, June 6, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)
Supporters waiting outside as Donald Trump’s motorcade arrives at a Beverly Hills home for a campaign fundrasiing event on June, 7, 2024. (KTLA)
Attendees enter a private Beverly Hills residence on North Elm Drive for Donald Trump’s campaign fundraising event on June, 7, 2024. (KTLA)
Supporters of Donald Trump await his motorcade’s arrival in a Beverly Hills neighborhood on June, 7, 2024. (KTLA)
Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally, Thursday, June 6, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 30: Former U.S. President Donald Trump appears in court for his hush money trial at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 30, 2024 in New York City. Judge Juan Merchan gave the jury instructions, and deliberations are entering their second day. The former president faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first of his criminal cases to go to trial. (Photo by Steven Hirsch-Pool/Getty Images)
Former President Donald Trump appears at Manhattan criminal court during jury deliberations in his criminal hush money trial in New York, Thursday, May 30, 2024. (Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP, Pool)
Donald Trump, far left, watches watches as jury foreperson #1 delivers guilty verdicts with judge Juan Merchan listening on the bench in Manhattan Criminal Court, Thursday, May 30, 2024, in New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)
Former President Donald Trump sits in Manhattan Criminal Court in New York, on May 20, 2024. (Dave Sanders/The New York Times via AP, Pool)
Former President Donald Trump appears at Manhattan criminal court during jury deliberations in his criminal hush money trial in New York, Thursday, May 30, 2024. (Michael M. Santiago/Pool Photo via AP)
Former President Donald Trump attends his trial at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York, Wednesday, May 29, 2024. (Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, Pool)
Donald Trump’s plane arriving at Los Angeles International Airport on June 7, 2024. (KTLA)
Outside of a private home on North Elm Drive in Beverly Hills where Donald Trump is holding a presidential campaign fundraising event on June 7, 2024. (KTLA)
Supporters waiting outside as Donald Trump’s motorcade arrives at a Beverly Hills home for a campaign fundrasiing event on June, 7, 2024. (KTLA)
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Trump is scheduled to be sentenced on July 11, days before he is expected to be formally announced as the GOP’s presidential nominee at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
This trip marks Trump’s first visit to Southern California since the Anaheim GOP Convention in September 2023.
President Joe Biden is set to visit Southern California the following weekend for a major fundraiser at the Peacock Theater in downtown L.A. that will include appearances by former President Barack Obama and celebrities including George Clooney and Julia Roberts.
