Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff will deliver remarks in Aspen at a big-dollar fundraiser for the Harris-Walz ticket on Friday as Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband makes a campaign swing through the West.
His Aspen appearance is the latest Colorado event to raise money for the newly minted Democratic presidential candidate. No time or specific location have been released by the campaign yet. The stop will follow a fundraising visit by Emhoff to San Francisco earlier in the day, and one to Ketchum, Idaho, on Thursday.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump made his own fundraising trek to Aspen earlier this month.
Emhoff visited Denver in March, when he joined Tom Perez, senior adviser to President Joe Biden and director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, and spoke about infrastructure. Friday will mark the second gentleman’s first official visit to Colorado since Harris replaced Biden as the Democratic presidential hopeful in July.
Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, stopped in Denver for a fundraiser earlier this month.
Tickets to Emhoff’s Aspen event go as high as $25,000. There are also tickets available at the $500 level. The event is hosted by Alexa Wesner, a former tech executive and former U.S. ambassador to Austria who lives in Aspen.
The Harris-Walz campaign reported this week having raised $540 million in its battle for the White House, according to the Associated Press, while Trump’s campaign reported having $327 million in cash on hand at the start of August.
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Originally Published: August 27, 2024 at 2:57 p.m.
