California: Once-Quixotic Campaign and Buttigieg

california: CNN Pete Buttigieg will headline a series of top-dollar, celebrity laden fundraisers across California this week, the latest sign that his rise in the polls has opened the doors -- and the wallets -- of donors who had previously dismissed the South Bend, Indiana, mayor's once-quixotic campaign, according to MSNBC. In total, Buttigieg will headline more than ten fundraisers in California from Wednesday to Friday, according to invites obtained by CNN, picking up checks from Hollywood celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow and Bradley Whitford, top tech investors and CEOs in Silicon Valley and a top fundraiser for President Barack Obama in the San Diego area. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds. Although Buttigieg has been furiously fundraising throughout much of 2019, the trip to California represents Buttigieg's most sustained and jam-packed fundraising swing to date, a reflection that his rise in prominence and popularity has turned into acceptance among top donors who fueled the campaigns of Obama and 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. When I reach out and talk to people, first of all, they know who he is. His trajectory is unlike anything I've seen in politics, John Atkinson, a Chicago insurance executive, told CNN. Atkinson was a bundler for Obama's campaign and now is raising money for Buttigieg. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.