First Lady Melania Trump will headline two fundraisers in March for her husband’s 2020 reelection bid, according to a new report.
Melania, who tends to avoid the political spotlight, will serve as host of a March 18 fundraiser in Beverly Hills, California, and a March 25 gathering at the president’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, according to Politico.
The fundraisers will benefit Trump Victory, a joint account shared by the Trump 2020 campaign and the Republican National Committee for fundraising purposes, the outlet reports.
Melania has not been involved in the political fundraising scene since just before the 2018 midterms, when she sent out a fundraising appeal defending the commander in chief.
“Democrats and the opposition media are doing everything they possibly can to discredit Donald with false accusations by spreading their fake news and making it appear that he does not have the support of America’s voter,” she wrote at the time.
The Trump campaign has been raking in donations ahead of the general election — he had $102.7 million in cash on hand at the start of 2020 — but the president can’t slow down his fundraising.
Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, who is worth an estimated $60.2 billion, made a late entry into the Democratic primary and is self-funding his campaign.
And while Democratic frontrunner Sen. Bernie Sanders is not a billionaire, his campaign brought in a staggering $34.5 million in the final quarter of 2019.