UPDATED: President Joe Biden arrived at LAX late on Friday afternoon to kickoff a weekend of fundraising, beginning with a Hollywood-centric occasion hosted by designer Michael Smith and James Costos, the previous U.S. ambassador to Spain.
Biden and numerous White House staffers then rook Marine One to Santa Monica Airport, and he’s motorcading to the occasion. Among these greeting Biden had been California Governor Gavin Newsom, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass.
The Los Angeles Police Department despatched out an advisory warning motorists “in the West Los Angeles area, including Century City, Pico-Robertson, and Beverly Hills adjacent, can expect intermittent street closures today. Please plan for traffic delays and avoid the area if possible.”
According to movies posted on social media, dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators, chanting “ceasefire now,” lined up close to a Holmby Hills park, the place Los Angeles law enforcement officials and the Secret Service had arrange a safety fence perimeter.
The LAPD had earlier warned of protest exercise anticipated all through the weekend.
“The Department will continue to work with any protest organizers to facilitate lawful demonstrations while protecting the safety of all involved including surrounding communities. Violence of any kind will not be tolerated,” the LAPD stated.
First Lady Jill Biden arrived earlier in Los Angeles, and toured the Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center and Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars Sinai.
The California Republican Party, in the meantime, has weighed in with a blast on the presidential go to.
Party chairwoman Jessica Millan Patterson stated in an announcement, “If President Biden is expecting a warm welcome from the Golden State today, he hasn’t been paying attention to local polls that show his approval at record lows among Californians. It seems even deep-blue California can’t get behind his disastrous agenda of high inflation, open borders, weak foreign policy, failing schools, and rampant crime. No amount of time spent rubbing elbows with Hollywood elites while bragging about the imaginary merits of ‘Bidenomics’ will change the fact that Joe Biden’s presidency is an abject failure.”
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