With the choice of a running mate and the Republican National Convention looming, presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump is scheduled to appear this evening at a Rancho Santa Fe fundraiser, where organizers hope to raise as much as $300,000 from some couples.
Earlier on Wednesday, Vice President Joe Biden will tout the record of President Barack Obama’s administration on trade enforcement in a speech at the Port of San Diego’s Tenth Avenue Marine Terminal in Barrio Logan,
Biden will tell officials and reporters that the administration has brought more trade enforcement cases at the World Trade Organization since 2009 than any other WTO member, and has won all that have been decided, according to Biden’s office.
Trump’s fundraiser is scheduled at an unannounced private home in Rancho Santa Fe, hosted in part by diet guru Jenny Craig and Madeleine Pickens, ex-wife of Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens. The two are listed as California co-chairs of Trump Victory.
Developer Doug Manchester, energy investor Doug Kimmelman and computer tycoon Darwin Deason are also listed as event chairs and/or leaders of Trump Victory.
According to an invitation posted online, it will costs $100,000 per couple to be an event vice chair and take part in a VIP meeting and $300,000 per couple to be an event chair.
Part of the proceeds will go to the Republican National Committee, which will hold its convention beginning Monday in Cleveland.
In his speech at the port, Biden also plans to discuss actions that can further level the playing field for American workers and businesses, his office said.
Trade has emerged as a major issue in the presidential campaign, with Trump taking a protectionist stance by blasting the North American Free Trade Agreement and Trans-Pacific Partnership deal.
Likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton supports free trade in general and has backed NAFTA, which was signed into law in 1993 by her husband, Bill Clinton. She initially supported the TPP negotiations but said she opposes the final product.
City News Service contributed to this article.
