White House releases Vice President Kamala Harris’ itinerary for June 2024 Seattle trip

As NPI first report­ed last week, Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris will be mak­ing a quick trip to great Pacif­ic North­west this week­end to raise mon­ey for the Biden Vic­to­ry Fund, a joint fundrais­ing com­mit­tee that ben­e­fits the Biden-Har­ris cam­paign, the DNC, and more than fifty state and ter­ri­to­r­i­al Demo­c­ra­t­ic par­ties. The White House has just released the Vice Pres­i­den­t’s pub­lic sched­ule for tomor­row, pro­vid­ing offi­cial con­fir­ma­tion of the trip and shar­ing new details that we did­n’t pre­vi­ous­ly know about.

Here’s the itinerary:

WEEKEND GUIDANCE FOR THE VICE PRESIDENT FOR
SATURDAY, JUNE 1 AND SUNDAY, JUNE 2

On Sat­ur­day, June 1, the Vice Pres­i­dent will trav­el to Seat­tle, Wash­ing­ton for two polit­i­cal events.

At 1:15 PM PT, the Vice Pres­i­dent will depart Los Ange­les, CA en route to Seat­tle, WA. This depar­ture from Los Ange­les Inter­na­tion­al Air­port will be open to pre-cre­den­tialed media.

At 3:30 PM PT, the Vice Pres­i­dent will arrive in Seat­tle, WA. This arrival at King Coun­ty Inter­na­tion­al Air­port will be open to pre-cre­den­tialed media.

At 4:35 PM PT, the Vice Pres­i­dent will deliv­er remarks at a polit­i­cal event. These remarks will be cov­ered by an edi­to­r­i­al pool.

At 6:00 PM PT, the Vice Pres­i­dent deliv­er remarks at a polit­i­cal event. These remarks will be cov­ered by an edi­to­r­i­al pool.

At 7:05 PM PT, the Vice Pres­i­dent will depart Seat­tle, WA en route to Los Ange­les, CA. This depar­ture from King Coun­ty Inter­na­tion­al Air­port will be closed press.

At 9:15 PM PT, the Vice Pres­i­dent will arrive in Los Ange­les, CA. This arrival at Los Ange­les Inter­na­tion­al Air­port will be closed press.

On Sun­day, June 2nd, the Vice Pres­i­dent will be in Los Ange­les, CA and has no pub­lic events scheduled.

You can see that this real­ly will be a fast trip.

The Vice Pres­i­dent is slat­ed to be in Seat­tle for less than four hours. She’ll spend more time fly­ing up and down the coast than she will in the Emer­ald City. How­ev­er, from a logis­ti­cal per­spec­tive, it makes sense to pack all of the trav­el into one day. That way, the veep can spend all of Sun­day in Los Angeles.

For oper­a­tional secu­ri­ty rea­sons, the Secret Ser­vice nev­er pro­vides advance notice of which arte­ri­als or high­ways they order local author­i­ties to close to facil­i­tate their pro­tectee’s move­ments, so we can’t offer spe­cif­ic sug­ges­tions con­cern­ing what roads to avoid. 

The West Seat­tle Blog has a run­down of the evi­dence that sug­gests that one of Har­ris’ fundrais­ing events will be in West Seat­tle, so any­one resid­ing or vis­it­ing that neigh­bor­hood can expect traf­fic impacts tomor­row afternoon. 

Our team thanks the West Seat­tle Blog, KUOW, The Seat­tle Times (2x!), KIRO, KING5, KREM, and Bon­neville’s MyNorth­west for point­ing their audi­ences to our report­ing about Har­ris’ vis­it from last week. Har­ris’ vis­it fol­lows one made by Pres­i­dent Joe Biden ear­li­er this month — a trip we also were the first to report about here on The Cas­ca­dia Advo­cate.

Thanks to the pool reporter trav­el­ing with the Vice Pres­i­dent, we have some idea of what Har­ris is like­ly to say tomor­row when she stops in Seat­tle, because tomor­row’s recep­tions are not her first stops on this fundrais­ing swing. 

Today, Har­ris spoke at an event in Ran­cho San­ta Fe, San Diego, host­ed by Jamie Carr, an active Demo­c­ra­t­ic fundrais­er, at 3:47 PM in an inti­mate room at the host’s res­i­dence. A group of about fifty guests stood lis­ten­ing to the remarks, in which Har­ris began by not­ing her con­nec­tion to Cal­i­for­nia as the state’s for­mer attor­ney general. 

Har­ris also rec­og­nized the atten­dance of Con­gress mem­ber Sarah Jacobs and the San Diego May­or Todd Gloria.

“You’re a great role mod­el of what a may­or can and should be,” she said of Gloria.

Har­ris pro­ceed­ed to speak for eleven min­utes, shar­ing a mes­sage of pos­i­tiv­i­ty and hope about the out­come of the Novem­ber pres­i­den­tial elec­tion and point­ing to spe­cif­ic wins of the Biden admin­is­tra­tion, includ­ing cre­at­ing “thou­sands upon thou­sands” of jobs and build­ing back Amer­i­ca’s infrastructure.

“We will be just fine and we’re gonna win. Let’s start with that,” she said to resound­ing applause from the audi­ence. “I believe momen­tum is so clear­ly on our side.”

The Vice Pres­i­dent not­ed that she has tak­en more than 50 trips around the coun­try so far this year, includ­ing a recent trip to Col­orado where she spoke at a grad­u­a­tion cer­e­mo­ny at the U.S. Air Force Acad­e­my. “In my trav­els all over our coun­try… peo­ple are show­ing up and they’re ready to fight for what we know and believe to be the promise of who we are. And so let’s keep that in mind,” the veep said.

She went on to men­tion the con­ver­sa­tions she’s had with labor lead­ers about the work they have been able to do “because of the accom­plish­ments of our admin­is­tra­tion,” as well as not­ed the administration’s invest­ment in sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy and man­u­fac­tur­ing and work to con­front the cli­mate crisis.

“By my esti­mate, we are drop­ping at least a tril­lion dol­lars over the next ten years to deal with adap­ta­tion and resilience around extreme cli­mate occur­rences,” Har­ris said. 

She didn’t men­tion Don­ald Trump by name but referred to him near the end of her remarks as “an indi­vid­ual who thrives in chaos and divi­sion and fear,” who “applauds dic­ta­tors” and has “threat­ened to weaponize the Depart­ment of Jus­tice against his polit­i­cal enemies.”

Har­ris specif­i­cal­ly point­ed to how Trump has threat­ened the Patient Pro­tec­tion Act, con­trast­ing it to their administration’s work on health­care and sup­port of the law.

The Vice Pres­i­dent returned to Los Ange­les after con­clud­ing her remarks. 

Tomor­row, it’ll be the same drill, but with more trav­el time.

“Wash­ing­ton State Democ­rats are excit­ed to wel­come Vice Pres­i­dent Har­ris to our great state,” said Chair Shasti Con­rad in a statement. 

“As the first South Asian woman to Chair a State Par­ty, I am hon­ored to wel­come Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris, the first woman and first per­son of col­or to be elect­ed our Vice Pres­i­dent to Wash­ing­ton State. Vice Pres­i­dent Har­ris and Pres­i­dent Biden have earned a sec­ond term through their stal­wart defense of abor­tion rights, secur­ing resources to make our com­mu­ni­ties cli­mate resilient, and help­ing build the biggest eco­nom­ic come­back in the world since the pandemic.”

We’ll have more cov­er­age of Har­ris’ vis­it to Wash­ing­ton State tomorrow.