Trump campaign disputes report that it is no longer raising money for Republican Party

Donald Trump's presidential campaign has "kind of wound down" its formal fundraising with the Trump Victory fund, a joint fundraising endeavor with the Republican National Committee that serves as a major source of campaign cash for the RNC and its ground game, Trump national campaign chairman Steven Mnunchin tells The Washington Post. The joint committee's last high-dollar fundraiser was on Oct. 19 in Las Vegas, and there are no more scheduled until election day.

The Trump campaign called the report "completely misleading," with Mnunchin telling NBC News, "we continue to do fundraising for Trump Victory." Lew Eisenberg, a top RNC fundraiser and chairman of Trump Victory, told The Washington Post he and Mnunchin have been working together "to raise money from major donors" over the phone. "We have no organized calendar of events for the next 14 days," he said, but "when the opportunity presents itself, we will have ad hoc fundraisers" with Trump or his running mate.

Mnunchin told The Post that "the online fundraising continues to be strong," and that the Trump campaign has "big media buys, we have a terrific ground game." Most of the money Trump raises online goes to his campaign, not the RNC, while the Trump Victory events, which can raise up to $449,000 a person, give a much bigger share to the RNC for down-ballot races and get-out-the-vote efforts. Hillary Clinton held her last big scheduled fundraiser on Tuesday night in Miami, though surrogates will appear at 41 events in the next two weeks. Her campaign has raised more than twice as much money as Trump's.

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