More than $365K raised for disabled Air Force veteran, 90, seen pawning jewelry to support wife with dementia

More than $365,000 has been raised for a 90-year-old disabled Air Force veteran living in New Hampshire after a TikTok user filmed him pawning jewelry so he could afford rent for him and his wife with dementia to avoid eviction.

TikToker Jenelle Marie came across the man, identified as Donald, at U.S. Gold and Pawn in Manchester, where he told her about his financial situation.

Donald explained that he was struggling to keep up with his bills after his landlord increased the rent and that his wife had recently been diagnosed with dementia. He said he feared being displaced and the possibility that his wife would be forced to go to a home.

Marie started a GoFundMe page to help ease Donald's financial stress. The fundraiser has raised more than $365,000 as of Monday morning.

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She posted a video to TikTok shortly after the fundraiser started, handing Donald an envelope with the $1,200 that had been raised at that time.

Donald was initially reluctant to accept the money, but Marie insisted.

He was able to keep the jewelry he was pawning because of the $1,200 and managed to pay off his debt to his landlord.

"You're an angel in disguise, you really are," he told Marie. "I don't know what to say, I really don’t know what to say."

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"This is the best birthday present anyone has ever had," Donald said. He turns 91 on August 25.

Marie wrote on the GoFundMe page that it was "a truly beautiful and emotional moment" and "something that I will never forget" when she told him the fundraiser raised $164,000 at that point.

"He graciously said he could never ever thank us and the people who donated," she wrote. "He said he didn't deserve it. He was 'just an ordinary man', but we explained to him that he's so much more than that!"

She said the fundraiser would remain open until she and Donald can meet with an attorney and figure out how to put the money in a safe account for Donald to access.

Marie wrote that "we are just so blown away at all the kindness that exist out there that we very seldom hear about. You ALL are angels in disguise and THIS type of love is what this world needs."

Harris hauls in $12 million at San Francisco fundraiser as Pelosi welcomes vice president home

Vice President Kamala Harris's homecoming in California's San Francisco Bay Area proved very lucrative.

The Democratic presidential nominee's campaign says that Harris hauled in over $12 million Sunday at a fundraiser held at San Francisco's famed Fairmont Hotel atop Nob Hill.

Harris has enjoyed a surge in fundraising after replacing President Biden three weeks ago atop the Democrats' 2024 ticket, and her July haul was more than double that of former President Trump, the GOP presidential nominee.

And Harris saw another spike in fundraising after naming Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate on Tuesday.

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The vice president and Walz quickly hit the campaign trail, with a swing through the key battleground states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, and Nevada that drew large crowds at every stop.

"The energy is undeniable," Harris told the audience at the fundraiser, as she pointed towards her campaign swing. "The crowds are large. But even better is the fact that, like last night in Las Vegas, attendees are signing up for volunteer shifts by the thousands."

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But the vice president acknowledged that in the race against Trump, "we have a lot of work to do," and emphasized that "we can take nothing for granted in this critical moment."

Harris was introduced at the fundraiser by former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has represented San Francisco in Congress for nearly four decades.

"This is a good day, when we welcome Kamala Harris home to California," Pelosi said. "She makes us all so proud. She brings us so much joy. She gives us so much hope."

Comments by Pelosi, who remains a key power broker in the Democratic Party, were considered crucial in persuading Biden last month to suspend his re-election bid and endorse Harris following his disastrous performance against Trump in their late June debate.

Biden's rambling and uneven answers at the debate fueled questions over whether the 81-year-old president had the physical and mental abilities to handle another four years in the White House, and sparked a chorus of calls from within his own party to end his 2024 bid.

After Biden repeatedly insisted that he was staying in the race, Pelosi's comments in a high profile TV interview suggesting that the president had not yet decided on whether to keep running or drop out served as a signal for other Democrats to call on Biden to end his campaign.

Pelosi, a longtime ally and friend of the president, has praised Biden's White House achievements while also criticizing his now defunct re-election campaign.

Harris was born in nearby Oakland, California and spent the first 12 years of her childhood in the Bay Area. Harris served as a prosecutor in Alameda County and later in San Francisco before winning election in 2002 as the city's district attorney.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a longtime Harris ally who was also a top surrogate for Biden before the president dropped his re-election bid, also appeared at Sunday's fundraiser.

Tickets for the event ranged from $3,300 to get in the door all the way up to $500,000, according to an invitation obtained by Fox News.

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