Trump hosts GOP fundraising retreat in Florida

    turning now to the race for the White House some of the biggest names in the Republican Party descending on Palm Beach this weekend in support of former president Donald Trump the guest list includes major donors and several top contenders to be Trump’s vice presidential pick here’s ABC’s White House correspondent Karen Travers tonight former president Donald Trump out of the courtroom so I’m not allowed to comment on any of that as you know I’m under a gag order and back on his home turf hosting a multi- retreat with Republicans in Palm Beach Florida the event featuring donors Party leaders and close allies of the former president who could be his running mate a vice presidential audition in front of wealthy donors Donald Trump is using this as kind of a mini reality show to Showcase some of the rising stars of the party one of which just might be his running mate this fall potential VP hopefuls in Palm Beach include Senator Tim Scott Senator Marco Rubio Governor chrisy gnome congresswoman Elise stonic Governor Doug bergam and Senator JD Vance but sources say the former president is not very far along in the vep stakes process his campaign not yet starting to formally vet candidates and go through their personal information and Trump not yet engaging The Retreat bringing together more than 400 donors tickets priced from $5 to $25,000 with 6 months until election day Trump needs a fundraising boost the former president and Republican starting April with less than half the cash on hand of the Biden campaign campaign in Democrats and polls continue to show a tight race a new Reuters ipsos poll found President Biden and Trump even among registered voters sources tell ABC that Trump campaign officials today told donors and guests they want to try to compete in Virginia and Minnesota two states that President Biden won in 2020 the Biden campaign tells me that team Trump cannot back that rhetoric up with operations and staff in Battleground States Whit Karen Travers thanks so much we appreciate it

    Donald Trump has sent invites to republican party leaders, campaign donors and close allies. Trump may also be considering a potential running mate from among the guests.

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    49 Comments

    1. ⁠I’m not white but I can clearly see the derangement syndrome in the comment section.

      All “lock him up” mob in the comment section, Y’all are a cult, repeating the same things you’re brainwashed to repeat. I can guarantee that 99.99% of people who chant mob like “lock him up” don’t even know the specific details of most of the cases

    2. I would NOT vote for this decieving, crooked,traitor for dog catcher, or sewerage worker Ever. He is, in my opinion, a lying, cheating, crooked, self-serving, manipulative, treasonous twice impeached " good friend of Putian ", not to even point out has no morals& talks like a street urchin. I call him the Teflon Don! But the man who coined that had more class & mob or not could & did address the media & ppl without using the same tactics as this Don! He shows no class or morality to anyone but himself.
      He's a real jersey. Saying oh I'm under a gag order, I can't testify! That's either 1 of 2 things. Either BS or purely Stupid! I don't want a President that is so much full of himself that he doesn't know the law. & he offends me every time he opens his mouth.
      Send his butt to Jail or to his communist friend & killer V.Putin.

    3. You were fed the toxic diet of "Self determination", "American exceptionalism" that are straight out of the Fascist/Nazi Nieztche books. Obviously it is Self-Destruction by "Will to Power" principle admittedly by Neitzche himself-subsequently proven by the demise of his fascist/Nazi followers in WWII. Neitzchean "Will to Power" is in fact "Will to Perversion"- by Perversion I mean unsustainable-surplus activities exceeding the economy of Nature. Unless you get rid of this Neitzchean excess, Self-Destruction is guaranteed by this Master-Monster paradigm!!

    4. I hope Trump wins in November and goes after all of these tyrants that went after him for election interference!
      But he probably wont win because Democrat's will cheat again.

    5. We need trump, foreigners are taking over the country and the Blacks want social justice. We need trump to restore order😂😂😂😂😂

    6. Look at the pitiful views lol. The demonrats are gonna lose so bad, all the lies and censorship, misusing the justice system opely infront of the entire world to try and jail the leading candidate for Prez.. it did not work, they are full of S%it and we all know it. He was at the Miami GP and the whole place went nuts for him, The Driver of the team he stayed with got the first win of his career. Trump has the golden touch.

    7. Shame on you ABC for talking about Donald Trump like he is a normal president candidate. You did not discuss the insanity he spewed at this fundraiser, and you did not briefly report on the awful handful of possible VP options.
      You are part of the problem ABC. Do you even care?

    8. He complains about the trial interfering with campaigning, but he uses his free time partying and golfing. What a idiot, does he think we don't know how he's spending his time. The bigger idiots are his supporters. Vote blue straight down the ballot

    9. All you people just fall in line preaching to the choir with the same dribble and hate.The only good hate is your hate…otherwise hate is bad…

    10. I love the fact that Donald Trump is unifying our country, bringing in black and Hispanic voters in numbers we haven't seen in generations to the GOP. I would offer this consideration, that the campaign be very proactive as we get closer to November in fending off. What will certainly be an onslaught by the DNC. We saw this in the midterms, where Biden, Clinton, and Obama and a host of others, all came out with their usual fear-mongering, accusing Republicans of threatening social security, racism, fear of a national abortion ban, that type of thing. Thing. Get out in front of it now, early and often.

    11. The word is by independent news sources that he told his donors he was going to cut social security and Medicare at this event. I was looking for verification from another news source. I trust this other news source. Shame on you for not reporting on that. You know, us none elites might like to know those things about presidential candidates. This story did not inform us of much pertinent information. I thought you were a “mainstream news outlet” I hope this younger generation guts all of the legacy media.

    12. He doesn't want a VP stealing his spotlight, even for 1/10th of a second. His former VP won't endorse him along with nearly his entire staftt that served him during his term….. 4 out of 44…… that doesn't poll very well.

    13. Hilarious with TDS here. Biden has fundraiser (while a fallen officer , due to soft on crime democrat policies, is having his funeral)and all is good. And report even states Biden has raised twice the $$, but when Trump has a fundraiser it’s grifting, or a sham. Hilarious 😂.

    14. Trump is destroying that fake idiot clone biden in the polls you media liars.. the real Joe biden is already dead… and so many more.. Nothing but clones walking around.. lucky for you liars in the media their is still a lot of stupid people that believe you fake news liars…

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