In the midst of a West Coast fundraising trip, Donald Trump will return to the Bay Area on Monday for the first time since some of his supporters were attacked by protesters at a June 2 rally in San Jose.
Trump is scheduled to attend a $25,000-per-ticket fundraiser at an undisclosed location on the Peninsula, Tim Clark, Trump’s California political director, said Saturday. The GOP presidential candidate is also scheduled to appear at a fundraiser in Napa County on Monday, with tickets ranging from $5,000 to $446,700, the Napa County Register reported.
The campaign has released few details about the events, both of which are closed to the public. Trump will travel to the Central Valley on Tuesday, Clark said.
Protesters hounded Trump and his supporters during his two previous Bay Area campaign stops. Appearing at the California Republican Party convention in Burlingame in April, Trump and his entourage had to dodge protesters by parking on a service road next to Highway 101 and walking between concrete barriers and over a grassy median to the convention site.
A little over a month later, anti-Trump protesters attacked Trump supporters as they left his evening rally in downtown San Jose. More than a dozen people were later arrested on assault charges.
Trump has held major fundraisers in Southern California, but none in the Bay Area so far. In June, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, facing criticism, canceled a fundraiser for Trump in his Atherton home.
As of the end of June, Trump had raised less than $165,000 from donors living in San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, according to the San Francisco-based firm Crowdpac, which tracks political donations. Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, had raised more than $31 million from supporters those counties as of June — and she likely raked in several million more this past week from high-priced Peninsula fundraisers.
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