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The Silicon Valley Fundraising Stampede

Biden, DeSantis, and Scott will swing by the Bay Area later this month to pass the hat among tech execs.

Photo: Stefani Reynolds/Getty Images
Theodore Schleifer
September 13, 2023

The end-of-quarter stampede of presidential fundraising is now upon us, at least based on the number of invitations being passed my way. On the Democratic side, I can reveal that Joe Biden is returning to the Bay Area for a pair of fundraising events: On the 26th, he’ll appear at an event hosted by billionaire couple Liz Simons and Mark Heising in Atherton (tickets range from $5,000 to attend to $100,000 to join the clutch), followed by an event in San Francisco the next day, hosted by top Democratic fundraiser Gretchen Sisson and her husband, tech executive (and Facebook co-founder) Andrew McCollum.