Former President Barack Obama will host his first fundrasier for the Democratic Party in the lead up to the 2020 presidential election later this month, and it will cost attendees a minimum of $10,000 just to get in the door.
Obama will headline the Nov. 21 fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee with chair Tom Perez in Los Altos Hill, California, according to Recode. The cheapest ticket merely grants admission to the event for $10,000, with costs going up to $355,000 to “chair” the event.
Karla Jurvetson, a psychiatrist, will be hosting the fundraiser at her Silicon Valley home. She gave nearly $7 million to Democratic groups last election cycle.
This will be Obama’s first open-press political appearance since last November’s midterm elections. He has attempted to remain on the sidelines while the Democratic Party’s presidential candidates try to win the nomination. The former president has faced the ire of some of those candidates during presidential debates.
The DNC is up against the Republican National Committee, which in conjunction with the Trump reelection campaign, raised over $125 million in the third quarter of 2019.
