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Trump Says ‘No Reason’ to Raise $1 Billion for Campaign

In his first interview after the final day of Republican nomination contests, he also said his running-mate search was focused on four or five politicians.
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Trump Says 'No Reason' to Raise $1B for Campaign

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Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump distanced himself from his own fundraising estimate of $1 billion, refusing to commit to collecting even half that amount, and saying his campaign didn't need much money to win the White House.

Trump, who has held just two major fundraising events since agreeing three weeks ago to help the party raise cash, said he would rely instead more on his own star power as a former reality-TV personality to earn free media, and has no specific goals for how much money his campaign needs.