LOS ANGELES — First lady Jill Biden touted her husband’s accomplishments on job creation, gun-control legislation and infrastructure investment as she courted donors on Wednesday in her first California fundraising trip since President Joe Biden announced he would seek reelection.
“Optimism, that’s what drives my husband and nothing can slow him down,” she told about 80 people gathered under an overcast sky in the backyard of a Lake Hollywood mansion. “Joe is ready, as he likes to say, to finish the job. So as we get ready to jump back into a campaign, I cannot even believe I’m already saying this — think about how far we’ve come in the last three years.”
She pointed to the administration’s efforts on the pandemic, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the debt-ceiling crisis as examples of “Joe’s steady leadership.”
