Vice President Kamala Harris to visit Seattle next month to raise money for Biden Victory Fund

Pres­i­dent Joe Biden’s run­ning mate will be pay­ing Seat­tle a vis­it in less than two weeks to raise mon­ey for the Biden Vic­to­ry Fund, NPI has learned. 

Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris will be vis­it­ing the Emer­ald City on June 1st for a fundrais­ing event to ben­e­fit the Demo­c­ra­t­ic tick­et, at a time to be announced and a loca­tion pro­vid­ed upon RSVP, accord­ing to an invi­ta­tion cir­cu­lat­ed by the campaign. 

As with fundrais­ers head­lined by Pres­i­dent Biden ear­li­er this month in Seat­tle and Med­i­na, and by First Lady Jill Biden last Sep­tem­ber, pro­ceeds will ben­e­fit a joint fundrais­ing com­mit­tee estab­lished to facil­i­tate a Demo­c­ra­t­ic vic­to­ry in 2024.

The min­i­mum cost to par­tic­i­pate in the recep­tion is $6,600 — dubbed the “Friend” lev­el by the cam­paign. Those donat­ing at least $12,500 per cou­ple (the Super Donor lev­el) will be able to take a pho­to with the Vice Pres­i­dent. The oth­er giv­ing lev­els are Sup­port­ing Donor, at $25,000, Lead Donor, at $50,000, and Co-Host, at $100,000.

Pro­ceeds from joint fundrais­ing com­mit­tees can be split between many dif­fer­ent enti­ties. As we have pre­vi­ous­ly report­ed here, the Biden Vic­to­ry Fund ben­e­fits the cam­paign, the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Nation­al Com­mit­tee (known as the DNC for short), and the more than fifty state and ter­ri­to­r­i­al Demo­c­ra­t­ic par­ty orga­ni­za­tions, includ­ing Washington’s, Oregon’s, and Idaho’s. Here are the con­tri­bu­tion rules and allo­ca­tion information: 

Biden Vic­to­ry Fund accepts con­tri­bu­tions of up to $929,600 from a per­son and $415,000 from a mul­ti­can­di­date com­mit­tee (“PAC”). The first $6,600/$10,000 from a person/PAC will be allo­cat­ed to Biden for Pres­i­dent, with the first $3,300/$5,000 des­ig­nat­ed for the pri­ma­ry and the next $3,300/$5,000 for the gen­er­al elec­tion. The next $41,300/$15,000 from a person/PAC will be allo­cat­ed to the DNC. The next $510,000/$255,000 from a person/PAC will be split equal­ly among the Demo­c­ra­t­ic state par­ties from: AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, and WY. Any addi­tion­al funds will be allo­cat­ed to the DNC, sub­ject to applic­a­ble con­tri­bu­tion limits.

A con­trib­u­tor may des­ig­nate his or her con­tri­bu­tion for a par­tic­u­lar par­tic­i­pant by con­tact­ing [email protected]. The allo­ca­tion for­mu­la above may change if fol­low­ing it would result in an exces­sive con­tri­bu­tion. Con­tri­bu­tions will be used in con­nec­tion with fed­er­al elec­tions, may be spent on any activ­i­ty as each com­mit­tee deter­mines in its sole dis­cre­tion, and will not be ear­marked for any par­tic­u­lar can­di­date. Fed­er­al law requires us to use our best efforts to col­lect and report the name, mail­ing address, occu­pa­tion, and name of employ­er of indi­vid­u­als whose con­tri­bu­tions exceed $200 per elec­tion cycle. Biden Vic­to­ry Fund does not accept con­tri­bu­tions from cor­po­ra­tions or their PACs, unions, fed­er­al con­trac­tors, nation­al banks, those reg­is­tered as fed­er­al lob­by­ists or under FARA, SEC-named exec­u­tives of fos­sil fuel com­pa­nies, or for­eign nationals.

Vice Pres­i­dent Har­ris last vis­it­ed Seat­tle in August of 2023. She head­lined a cam­paign recep­tion and also appeared at an offi­cial event to mark the anniver­sary of the sign­ing of the Infla­tion Reduc­tion Act, which we cov­ered here on The Cas­ca­dia Advo­cate.

The White House has yet to pre­view Vice Pres­i­dent Har­ris’ sched­ule for June 1st or Seat­tle trav­el plans but is like­ly to pro­vide guid­ance some­time next week.

POSTSCRIPT: We now have that guid­ance. This post has more details on Har­ris’ vis­it, includ­ing her sched­ule as released by the White House for Sat­ur­day the 1st.