Michelle Obama is back in Boston for the second time in six weeks, this time without President Obama – the two attended the post-bombing memorial service back in April, three days after the bombings, and the first lady also visited with patients at Boston Children’s Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. On Wednesday, she will be meeting with Boston Marathon bombing victims, as well as headlining the launch of a fundraiser for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Edward Markey’s campaign, who President Obama officially endorsed yesterday. Markey will go against GOP candidate Gabriel Gomez in the Massachusetts special election for Secretary of State John Kerry’s seat.

The fundraiser will be held at the Taj Hotel on Arlington Street in Downtown Boston – seats for the event run between $500 and $37,600 for donors, according to an article by Metro Boston. In a statement regarding the Senate hopeful, President Obama referred to Markey as a “passionate and effective champion for middle class and working families,” and his endorsement will help push Markey ahead in an already traditionally democratic Massachusetts. This presidential support, however, did not seal a victory for Democrat Martha Coakley, who lost to Republican Scott Brown for Senate in 2010. The first lady will be speaking in favor of Markey tonight, and further endorsers of Markey’s campaign include President Bill Clinton, broadening the White House team that hopes to regain Democratic pull within the Senate.

This is the first election campaign that the first lady has partaken in since the presidential election last fall. The Senate election will take place on June 25.