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SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Vice President Kamala Harris returned to the Bay Area Saturday for the archetypal clip since becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee for president.
Harris pulled successful $12 cardinal for her run astatine a Sunday fundraiser successful San Francisco.
"So we are present to hopefully spot the adjacent president of the United States," said Quita Highsmith.
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Vice President Kamala Harris is backmost location successful the Bay Area and hosting her archetypal large fundraising lawsuit successful California successful San Francisco.
Highsmith from San Francisco paid large wealth for her household to be a fundraiser for Vice President Kamala Harris astatine the Fairmont connected Nob Hill.
Highsmith's girl Quinlyn said young voters similar her are excited.
"Seeing Kamala instrumentality the steps to get to this position, coming from the aforesaid undergraduate schoolhouse I went to is inspiring, these barriers are going to beryllium kicked down," said Quinlyn
News cameras were not allowed wrong the fundraiser. About 700 radical stood successful enactment for Harris' archetypal Bay Area run halt since rising to the apical of the Democratic ticket.
California's apical Democrats showed up to enactment Harris. Governor Gavin Newsom, House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, and California Attorney General Rob Bonta.
"I'm excited, you tin consciousness the energy," said Bonta.
"I've had this (t-shirt) for a agelong time, it says someday a pistillate volition beryllium president. Very excited to spot my person Kamala Harris today," said State Treasurer Fiona Ma.
Harris' Bay Area roots tally deep. She was calved present and aboriginal served arsenic San Francisco's territory attorney.
"This is truly a homecoming, I met her astatine the tarmac past night, she was truthful blessed to spot america and beryllium location and truthful blessed to consciousness the enactment and emotion from San Francisco," said San Francisco Mayor London Breed.
"What Vice President Harris has done successful 2 weeks is extraordinary, I haven't seen thing similar it successful American politics," said Silicon Valley entrepreneur Steve Westley.
Political donors accidental they're looking for much than conscionable promises from Harris, they privation results.
"Kamala Harris: To Be The First" details her travel of anticipation from Berkeley to Washington, wherever she volition soon statesman a caller section arsenic the archetypal Black and Asian pistillate elected vice president of the United States.
"She needs to code the economy, state is excessively high, groceries are excessively high, I request a break. I don't conscionable privation hamburger, I privation a steak each present and then, you know," said James Buttler.
Pro-Palestinian protesters rallied extracurricular the Fairmont Hotel demanding an extremity to each U.S. assistance to Israel.
"All she has to bash is look extracurricular and spot each the interruptions astatine her rallies, she knows the messages, it's her prime whether she supports an arms embargo oregon not," said Rami Abdelkarim from the Palestinian Youth Movement.
It's unclear if Harris ever saw the protest. Her motorcade departed the edifice Sunday afternoon, en way to SFO and her adjacent run stop.
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