Trump got the 投票者s on 最高の Tuesday, but his cash-hungry （選挙などの）運動をする needs more 寄贈者s
By Alexandra Ulmer
LOS ANGELES, March 6 (Reuters) - Donald Trump had no 不足 of 投票（する）s in the 最高の Tuesday 大統領の 最初の／主要な. He swept to victory in an 豊富 of 明言する／公表するs. But as his 合法的な 料金s and payouts balloon, Trump must 追求する another 選挙区／有権者 as he 準備するs for a 総選挙 matchup with 大統領 Joe Biden: Major 寄贈者s.
Small 寄贈者s have 歴史的に helped 推進する Trump, but over$540 million in 合法的な payouts and millions more in 合法的な 料金s together are putting the squeeze on him as he 直面するs a long （選挙などの）運動をする through to the Nov. 5 選挙.
While much of Trump's 共和国の／共和党の base skews white and working class, he 保持するs support の中で some 豊富な Americans who espouse 保守的な social values or are eager for Trump-led 税金 法律制定 that 利益s the 豊富な.
Trump's 孤独な remaining 競争相手 Nikki Haley, who was 好意d by many in the 伝統的な 共和国の／共和党の 寄贈者 class, 出口d the race on Wednesday, 手渡すing Trump an 適切な時期 to scoop up her 寄贈者s.
While some past Haley benefactors have started 寄付するing to Trump, others will shun Trump in 好意 of 基金ing congressional races or 選ぶ to 投票（する） for him without 寄付するing, based on Reuters interviews with around a dozen 寄贈者s and fundraisers.
An 公式の／役人 at the プロの／賛成の-Haley 最高の PAC spending group SFA said there would likely be a 分裂（する） の中で Haley 寄贈者s, with some willing to 支援する Trump and others uninterested.
When asked whether he would 基金 Trump, New York litigator and Haley 寄贈者 Eric Levine said: "I will 焦点（を合わせる） all my attention on helping 共和国の／共和党のs 勝利，勝つ 支援する the 上院."
Heavyweight 共和国の／共和党の 寄贈者 and hedge 基金 億万長者 Ken Griffin 寄付するd $5 million to support Haley but has not given to Trump. （選挙などの）運動をする 財政／金融 監視者 OpenSecrets 見積（る）s he was the third-largest individual 共和国の／共和党の 寄贈者 in the 2020 大統領の cycle.
In a 声明 to Reuters in January, Griffin too appeared to be 焦点（を合わせる）d on congressional races.
Four other 重要な Haley 寄贈者s told Reuters they would not be 寄付するing to Trump. A fifth said he was still deciding. The 寄贈者s asked for anonymity to 株 their 審議s 自由に.
The Trump （選挙などの）運動をする did not すぐに 答える／応じる to a request for comment on his fundraising 計画（する）s.
COMPLICATING FACTOR
One 複雑化 for Trump: The more he needs 基金s for his 合法的な 弁護, the more some 寄贈者s say they are 気が進まない to send money that is meant to help 促進する his 立候補 with 投票者s but that could be used to 支払う／賃金 合法的な 料金s.
"I'm not going to 令状 him a check for $50,000 when I don't know where the hell it's going - to lawyers or who knows what else," said a major California-based 寄贈者.
"The biggest 不平（をいう）ing I hear from 寄贈者s is they don't want to give money if Trump turns around and uses it on his 合法的な 料金s," he 追加するd. He said he had heard that from more than half a dozen 寄贈者s.
Trump is 推定する／予想するd to make a fundraising trip to California in the next few weeks, によれば a source 簡潔な／要約するd on the 計画（する）s, which he 警告を与えるd were still 試験的な.
Trump already enjoys the 支援 of some major 寄贈者s, 含むing Timothy Mellon, 相続人 to the Mellon banking fortune.
億万長者 Elon Musk, the CEO of electric 乗り物 製造者 Tesla, said on Wednesday that he will not 寄付する money to either 候補者 in this year's 選挙.
But a source 報告（する）／憶測d Musk met with Trump over the 週末, and should he decide to dona te to the former 大統領，／社長, that could かもしれない 訂正する Trump's 財政上の lag against Biden singlehandedly.
Trump fell その上の behind Biden in fundraising in January, によれば 財政上の 公表，暴露s. Trump's cash holdings fell to just over $30 million while Biden, who is 直面するing a いっそう少なく 競争の激しい 過程 for his Democratic Party's 指名／任命, said his （選挙などの）運動をする ended January with about $56 million in cash.
To be sure, Trump was outspent by 民主党員 Hillary Clinton in 2016 and still went on to 勝利，勝つ, although he did not 直面する the same 合法的な headwinds.
合法的な 専門家s say Trump cannot use 選挙資金s to 支払う／賃金 the 損害賠償金 in three New York civil 事例／患者s because 非，不，無 are 関係のある to his （選挙などの）運動をする or his 行為／行う as a 大統領，／社長 or political 候補者.
One New York 判決 is for $454 million in 刑罰，罰則s and 利益／興味 for fraudulently 誇張するing his 逮捕する 価値（がある） and the values of his real 広い地所 holdings to 安全な・保証する better 貸付金 条件.
Another is for $83.3 million for defaming writer E. ジーンズ Carroll by 否定するing her （人命などを）奪う，主張する that he 強姦d her １０年間s ago. A third is for $5 million for defaming Carroll and having sexually 強襲，強姦d her.
However, the Trump political 活動／戦闘 委員会 Save America, which takes a 10% 株 of much of the money raised by Trump's main fundraising 委員会, has spent more than $50 million on 合法的な expenses since last year, 公表，暴露s to the 連邦の 選挙 （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限 show. (報告（する）／憶測ing by Alexandra Ulmer. 付加 報告（する）／憶測ing by Gram Slattery, editing by Ross Colvin and Howard Goller)
