Chelsea Clinton is set to jump into the 2016 fray as a co-host of one of Hillary Clinton’s campaign cash events for the first time.
Chelsea, long an observer of her family’s political fundraising machine, and her mother are scheduled to co-host a “Family Holiday Celebration With Hillary and Chelsea” in New York City on the afternoon of Dec. 17, according to an invitation reviewed by POLITICO. Tickets for the event — which is expected to be a large gathering as the Democratic front-runner sprints toward her goal of $100 million for the primary election before the end of the year — start at $250. Actress Drew Barrymore and her husband, Will Kopelman, will also serve as co-hosts.
The event is due to take place just hours before the year’s sole fundraising confab for Clinton’s joint effort with the Democratic National Committee and a host of state parties: a more intimate affair featuring Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton and a performance by rock star Sting, with tickets starting at $33,400.
Bill Clinton has been an active participant in the campaign’s cash dash, scheduling more than 20 events over the last two months of the year. But the couple’s daughter has taken more of a backseat role in the 2016 campaign after appearing on the trail late in her mother’s previous presidential bid.
Chelsea has appeared in public with Hillary only occasionally this time around, and she hasn't personally hosted fundraisers until now, though she has attended some.
Her emergence on the money trail comes amid her mother’s now-customary fundraising sprint to end the quarter. The candidate has at least 15 events on her schedule between Tuesday and the Dec. 17 holiday celebration, including stops in Florida, Massachusetts, Washington, D.C., Virginia, Maryland, Iowa, Missouri, Oklahoma and New York, according to invitations.
Some of those events will include high-flying host committees, like a fundraiser on Sunday in Alexandria, Virginia, hosted by a slate of Hispanic members of Congress.
Meanwhile members of Clinton's political team have also been raising campaign cash across the country, occasionally in less-than-conventional settings. On Dec. 9, for example, campaign chairman John Podesta is set to host a cooking event in Portland, Oregon.