“Coming here makes great political sense. He’s showing he can come into the center of anti-Trump energy, right into Nancy Pelosi’s backyard, thumb his nose at her and still walk away with a wad of cash.”
— David McCuan, politics professor at Sonoma State University, on Donald Trump’s first Bay Area visit as president, where he raised $3 million at a GOP campaign luncheon in a tech mogul’s mansion in the Palo Alto hills near Democratic House Speaker Pelosi’s San Francisco district.