Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), as well as congressional Republicans more broadly.
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“And that’s why this election is so important”, Obama said. “I want to make sure that everybody here feels the same urgency I do”.
“I’ve done a lot of tough stuff since I’ve been president”, Obama told about 100 supporters who rose to their feet and chanted his “Yes We Can” campaign slogan as he entered a high-ceilinged room at the Pacific Heights home of businessman and philanthropist Gordon Getty. Tickets cost $33,400, officials said. Some of the guests included Reps. If they held firm, he said, “the basic compact that we have in a big, diverse country like this, our ability to cooperate and find the solutions to the big challenges that we face, will deteriorate to such a point where it’s going to be very hard for anybody, and any president” to accomplish critical tasks.
President Obama added that the more controversial policy positions of Trump and his rival candidate, Republican Sen. “They’re saying the same thing that members of the Freedom Caucus in the House have been saying for years”.
The Republican National Committee released a statement Friday about the presidential election.
Obama is expected to travel to San Francisco following the Los Angeles events.
The breakfast roundtable fundraiser was at the Brentwood home of “Spider-Man” actor Tobey Maguire and his wife Jennifer, the entertainment trade newspaper Variety reported. “It’s great on one hand and incredibly inconvenient on the other hand”, said Bob Chamberlain, whose street was lined with SUVs, vans, police cars and fire engines.
The president concluded “Let’s get to work”. “It was pretty quick”, Chamberlain said.
Flight time is just under 5 hours. The foggy mountains behind the runway provided a stunning backdrop.
President Obama and daughter Malia walk across the tarmac at LAX on April 7, 2016. Then, he strode toward the crowd pressed against the chain link fence, amid cheers and shouts. Dozens of people lined both streets, waving and snapping cell phone photos. Rashad Berkeley said he was able to attend the event because his cousin is in the Air Force. Some future voters took in the spectacle of the president’s arrival.
It was Obama’s fourth stop on a fundraising swing through San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Obama has also used the trip to press the case for confirmation of his Supreme Court nominee, U.S. Circuit Judge Merrick Garland.
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, the Oscar-winning actresses Gwyneth Paltrow and Julia Roberts and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the Emmy- winning star of the HBO political comedy “Veep”, were among the approximately 90 people at the fundraiser.
