Trump Lures New Big-Money Donors as Old Guard Retreats
Of the contributions disclosed so far, the biggest Trump supporter in the country is Geoffrey Palmer, a real-estate developer in Beverly Hills.
An attendee hands a $2 banknote to Donald Trump as Trump signs autographs in Gaffney, South Carolina, on Feb. 18, 2016.
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Even as he drives away some stalwart Republican party donors, Donald Trump is attracting new sources of money.
That was clear on Friday and Saturday, as Trump and his allies revealed the names of some of his most generous supporters. Of the contributions disclosed so far, the biggest Trump supporter in the country is Geoffrey Palmer, a real-estate developer in Beverly Hills, who gave $2 million to a pro-Trump group known as Rebuilding America Now. Palmer isn't widely known in donor circles and hadn't previously written checks of that size, according to Federal Election Commission data.