Amid fundraising worries, Trump gathers potential donors

NEW YORK (AP) — Presumptive GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump on Thursday summoned allies and Republican Party heavyweights to kick off a general election fund-raising operation and push back against the notion that his late-starting cash collecting would be outgunned by Hillary Clinton's.

The Manhattan meeting at Trump Tower kicked off the Trump Victory Fund, the joint cash-raising operation with the RNC that plans to gather money both for his candidacy and for House and Senate GOP candidates.

Trump had suggested that an Indiana-born judge of Mexican decent overseeing the fraud case into Trump University would not be impartial because the celebrity businessman wants to build a wall along the U.S. southern border.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a Trump backer who attended Thursday's 60-person meeting, said of Trump's remarks about the judge: "'People make mistakes and then they take it back," according to Catsimatidis.