TRENTON -- Donald Trump is coming to New Jersey, but it will cost you at least $200 to see him.

Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, will appear May 19 at a pair of fundraisers in the Garden State -- one to help Gov. Chris Christie erase debt from his own White House campaign and another to benefit the state's GOP.

They mark the first time the billionaire businessman and former Atlantic City casino tycoon will appear at New Jersey events during his campaign.

They are also the first fundraisers Trump is scheduled to attend since announcing that he will begin actively raising money for the Republican Party and his general election campaign.

In the first New Jersey fundraiser, Trump will appear alongside Christie at the Lawrenceville National Guard Armory in Lawrence Township in Mercer County.

While it's billed as a "rally," it isn't one of the free Trump rallies that have drawn throngs of supporters across the U.S. the last nine months. Tickets are $200, according to the invitation.

Christie's office deferred comments Friday to Trump's campaign. A spokeswoman for Trump's campaign did not immediately return a message seeking comment.

Christie, who says he's been friends with Trump for 14 years, was one of 16 Republicans who ran against the real estate mogul for the Republican nomination.

But Christie ended his campaign in February and endorsed Trump shortly thereafter.

Since then, the governor has acted as a Trump surrogate, appearing with him on the campaign trail a few times. Some experts say Christie could be a contender for Trump's pick for vice president.

The invitation to the Lawrenceville event says all proceeds will go toward Christie's presidential campaign -- which still has $250,000 in debt, according to Federal Election Commission reports.

The campaign has rented out its fundraising list and sold off furniture and equipment in an attempt to pay off the debt.

Trump is also slated to appear at a separate fundraiser May 19 for New Jersey's Republican Party, which is still saddled with $525,000 in debt related to legal bills from the George Washington Bridge scandal that engulfed Christie's administration.

Tickets for that will be $25,000 a person. But the time, location, and other details have yet to be determined, said Rick Rosenberg, a spokesman for the state GOP.

Up until recently, Trump has stressed he is self-funding his campaign, even though he has taken some donations and his campaign website has "donate" button on its first page.

But on Thursday, days after becoming the party's presumptive nominee, Trump announced he had hired a national finance chairman, Steve Mnunchin, and will raise money for the National Republican Committee.

Christie said last month it's likely Trump will make a campaign visit to New Jersey in the coming months.

"He's got a friend who's the governor," Christie said. "If I ask him to come, he'll come."

New Jersey's GOP primary on June 7 won't matter because Trump is already the presumptive nominee. But he could try to drum up voters here before the general election in November.

A Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind Poll from last month showed Trump trailing both Democratic candidates, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in hypothetical head-to-head matchups.

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