Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will be part of tech executives Saturday to carry a fundraiser for Vice President Harris, a supply conversant in the matter confirmed to The Hill.
The reception can be hosted by Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan, Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman and Aaron Levie, the CEO of enterprise cloud firm Field, in San Francisco at 6:30 p.m. native time. Pelosi will headline the occasion, dubbed, “Little Tech for Harris,” the supply mentioned.
The occasion won’t be the primary for the previous Home chief. Pelosi held a reception alongside the Democratic nominee in San Francisco in August, which introduced in additional than $12 million for the vice chairman. Harris’s marketing campaign introduced earlier this month that it raised $361 million in August.
Since President Biden made the choice to withdraw from the race and endorse Harris, Democrats have introduced in additional than $615 million, in accordance with the marketing campaign. Her rival, former President Trump’s marketing campaign mentioned this week that it raked in $160 million in September.
Trump has been making inroads with conservative tech leaders in Silicon Valley. Earlier this summer season, the previous president raised $12 million at a fundraiser hosted on the dwelling of the investor and “All-In Podcast” co-host David Sacks. He has additionally secured the backing of Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who additionally owns social platform X.
Harris, too, has connections within the tech world and her marketing campaign has courted some high executives within the area, as a rising variety of executives who beforehand donated to Democrats have now shifted to the correct.
The fundraiser was first reported by The New York Instances.
The Hill has reached out to Harris’s marketing campaign and Pelosi’s workplace for remark.
