Trump blitz in California for a major $ 15 million fundraiser, annoying celebrities and activists

President Trump put Californian Liberal activists on a hard test on Tuesday, as he was organizing a fundraising campaign for lunch, lunch, and lunch, which was expected to bring in 15 million dollars to wealthy Republicans. the state in the space of just two days.

A storm of fire among Hollywood elites erupted last month when Trump's Golden State tour was announced, accompanied by "Will and Grace" star Debra Messing, suggesting that anyone attending the events Fundraiser is appointed and mutilated publicly. This prompted Trump to call Messing a missing actress in racism and McCarthyism.

The President's undying pressure towards the West came one day after his parade in New Mexico, a long-time liberal and credible state that Trump's campaign hopes to turn red in 2020. Trump seeks to find the next Wisconsin or Michigan says the Democrats have generally won the presidential elections, but that might surprise under certain conditions, as was the case in 2016. The shortlist of the Trump team also figures in the new strategy: Nevada, New Hampshire and Minnesota.

California is definitely not on this list. Nevertheless, according to Republican strategists, the state could still be useful, even if it was not for its electoral votes.

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"There has not been a president in history as unpopular in the state of California as Trump," said Mike Madrid, GOP political consultant and outspoken critic of Trump. "But our money spends the same as everyone else's."

While the protesters were not far away, Trump began his day Tuesday with a $ 3 million lunch in the Bay Area, followed by a $ 5 million dinner in Beverly Hills at the Real estate developer Geoffrey Palmer. He is expected to pay an additional $ 7 million Wednesday with a breakfast in Los Angeles and a lunch in San Diego.

Trump reportedly told supporters in the San Francisco Bay Area that California was "a beautiful state, but that the system was rigged – the elections were not fair – and that it was very difficult for him. "to win," said Harmeet Dhillon, a member of the RNC's electoral commission.

In California, the collection of ballots was legalized by California in 2018. Previously, only a family member or a member of the same household was allowed to cast postal ballots for an elector, but the new one allowed anyone – including political agents – to pick it up and return it to an elector.

Although Republican candidates in California were largely run on polling day, many candidates saw their advantage diminish and then disappear, with the late Democrats' votes counted in the weeks following the election.

"We lost only 26 seats (nationally) on the night of the election and three weeks later we lost almost all the races in California," said last year's outgoing president of the Room, Paul Ryan, R-Wisc. "The fact is, when you have candidates who win the mail ballot, win the polling day, then lose three weeks later because of the interim, it's really weird."

About 100 protesters walked the road about a kilometer from Trump's lunch spot in the Portola Valley, with protesters inflating giant Baby Trump and Trump Chicken balloons.

Trump, for his part, tweeted a joyful message as he left New Mexico on Tuesday to get into the state: "We just left New Mexico for California, where we deliver results!" The tweet included statistics on the unemployment rate and the creation of jobs in the state.

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S addressing reporters onboard Air Force One, Trump discovered the problem of homelessness in that state. He said: "We can not let Los Angeles, San Francisco and many other cities destroy themselves by allowing what's going on."

He added, "The people of San Francisco are fed up, and the people of Los Angeles are fed up, and we're looking at that, and we'll do something about it."

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, a Democrat, said in a Facebook video before Trump arrived that he hoped the president would work with the city to end the homelessness. He stated that he had not been invited to meet the president.

The mayor spoke during the construction of 26 housing units designed to take people from life to the streets.

"President Trump: we must put pressure on politics, deal with the homelessness crisis and save lives now," said Garcetti. "I wanted to talk to him a little bit like he had come here in the south of Los Angeles to understand and hear about the challenges we face and the ways in which Washington – rather than demonizing us – could possibly come help us . "

Garcetti also refuted Trump's assertion in a July interview that homelessness was a phenomenon that had started two years ago: "I would like to reassure the President, that has not happened. not started two years ago when you became president, started six years ago when I became mayor, but it's our collective oversight and our collective responsibility to solve this problem. "

Earlier in the day, Garcetti had a conciliatory tone. "I know I'm just supposed to hit the president back, but if he's real about it, I'll believe him when I see him, but I'll also trust that he wants to save lives too." said the president. Mayor said. "Certainly, we could do it together."

Trump, in response, doomed to action.

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"We can not let Los Angeles, San Francisco and many other cities destroy themselves by allowing what's going on," Trump said aboard Air Force One. He added that waiting police were getting sick and that the tenants wanted to move because of the homelessness problem.

California was seen as an incubator for the modern conservative movement that had swept former state governor, Ronald Reagan, to the White House in 1980. However, demographic changes and influx new residents have reworked the political contours of the country's most populous state. drastically, the former stronghold of Orange County with more Democrats than registered Republicans this summer.

For Republicans, who have been resigned by the lack of political relevance at the state level, a donation to Trump could constitute his own form of protest.

"By showing up at a fundraiser in the depths of the beast, they say," I do not care what liberal politicians say and I want to publicly show my support, "said Dhillon.

She added: "I sold $ 100,000 worth of (notes), and I could have sold $ 100,000 more."

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California has long been a vital fundraiser for politicians from both parties, who have relied on wealthy industry leaders and Hollywood to finance their political ambitions. But, under Trump, mundane fundraising has taken on a complicated dimension because of his harsh criticisms of the state's immigration laws and his forest management practices, which he partly attributed to fires murderers.

Earlier this month, Trump fought back after announcing tweeted that Trump's California fundraisers should be publicly announced, following a similar campaign by costar Eric McCormack.

Asset tweeted back: "I did not forget that when it was announced that I would do The Apprentice, and that it had become a big hit, greatly helping NBC's failed lineup, @DebraMessing approached me at a Upfront event & thanked me copiously, even calling me "sir." As times have changed! "

McCormack then stated that he had never supported the blacklists, to which Messing responded: "I could not have said better."

Last month, Trump attacked the state's huge film industry, calling Hollywood "very dangerous to our country."

He added: "Hollywood is really terrible, you talk about racist – Hollywood is racist."

This helped to reinforce security concerns around the president's visit.

Overall, Trump has continued to make a lot of money one year on the other since the November 2020 contest. His campaign and the Republican National Committee have raised more than $ 210 million since the beginning of 2019, according to the archives of the Federal Electoral Commission. That's more than any current Democrats who seek to replace him reunited during this period.

This week's visit was Trump's fourth visit to the state during his presidency. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson is expected to follow Trump in California, one day behind the president, with visits to San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego. A senior HUD official said Carson would speak on a variety of issues, including increasing the supply of affordable housing and promoting investment in struggling communities.

At the same time, a California Republican congressman announced Tuesday that he would not stand for re-election next year, making him the 18th GOP president to withdraw from the House of Representatives , his party being a minority.

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GOP representative Paul Cook announced that he will instead appear on the San Bernardino County Supervisory Board in 2020.

California has 53 seats in the US House, the largest number of states. His Republican Congress delegation was cut in half by mid-term in 2018, leaving only seven seats to his party.

Andrew O'Neill Reilly of Fox News and the Associated Press contributed to this report.