Tickets for the Palo Alto fundraiser range from $3,300 to $50,000
Republican Senate candidate JD Vance, with wife Usha Vance, speaks to his supporters during an election night watch party, Tuesday, May 3, 2022, in Cincinnati. Ohio Senator JD Vance returns for his second fundraising visit to the Bay Area on Monday for an event in Palo Alto, the birthplace of Silicon Valley.
For $50,000 per couple, attendees can join the host committee, participate in the roundtable, and enjoy photos and dinner with Vance. The Palo Alto fundraiser was organized by the Santa Cruz Republican Party and will likely attract some of the Valley’s wealthiest GOP supporters. Vance has worked closely with venture capitalist and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel and counts billionaire investor Marc Andreesen, Tesla and X CEO Elon Musk, and former Google chief executive Eric Smith as among his tech industry connections.
“Remember, he was anti-Trump at one time, and now he’s become decidedly MAGA,” Whalen said. “But the press seems to overlook the fact that he spent five years working in the tech sector. So he is a bit of an unusual Republican national candidate that he could come out here and talk the language and walk the walk of Silicon Valley.”
Vance’s Palo Alto fundraiser comes a little over a week after President Joe Biden made a bombshell announcement that he would drop out of the race and endorse Vice President Kamala Harris, a Bay Area native, for the Democratic nomination.“Local conservatives are very familiar with Kamala and I don’t think anybody is afraid of Kamala Harris,” she said.
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