Obama was to appear in a town-hall style meeting sponsored by executive social network LinkedIn in San Jose, before tapping donors in Democratic strongholds in San Diego and Los Angeles.
Faced with a recalcitrant Congress and Republicans who accuse him of waging class warfare over his call to raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires, Obama told supporters Sunday to brace for a “tough” reelection campaign.
“This is going to be especially hard because a lot of people are discouraged and a lot of people are disillusioned,” Obama said at a fundraising event in Seattle, Washington.The only class warfare I’ve seen is the battle waged against the middle class,” he said.
“It’s about priorities,” he said.
Many observers feel that Obama’s jobs bill has little chance of passing Congress, at least in recognizable form, as even some Democrats in the Senate oppose part of it.
But his senior advisor David Plouffe said Sunday that he believed the bill would get a vote.
“I think it’s got a very good chance,” Plouffe said on ABC’s “This Week” program.
“This has tax cuts for every small business and every worker, rehiring teachers, modernizing our schools, helping rebuild our infrastructure
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