Mercers, Bigelow Among Attendees for Trump Palm Beach Fundraiser
- Fundraiser comes as Trump, RNC can accept more from donors
- New York Jets’s Johnson, Chicago Cubs’s Ricketts also on list
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Republican mega-donors Rebekah and Robert Mercer, hotel developer Robert Bigelow and oil tycoon Harold Hamm are among the contributors expected to attend an upcoming fundraiser for Donald Trump, a sign the presumptive GOP nominee is reeling in some of the party’s biggest backers.
The anticipated attendees range from longtime Trump supporters to those who have distanced themselves from the former president in recent years, according to a person who has viewed the invitation for the April 6 event. The growing list of people committing to giving to Trump’s campaign demonstrates his tightening grasp on the donor class that spent much of last year pining for an alternative candidate.