Trump to raise money in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, other liberal bastions

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Donald Trump is coming back to Washington and Oregon, as he promised last May, but in a role presidential candidates usually play on trips to the Northwest. He will be raising money.

The Trump Victory Fund has its candidate on an Aug. 29-31 fundraising trip of West Coast liberal bastions including Seattle, Portland, Napa, Calif., and San Francisco. The trip was first reported Thursday in The Washington Post.

In fact, the Trump 757 will be touching down in places very touchy about the 2016 Republican presidential nominee.

He is on Long Island in New York tonight, and heads next week to Nantucket and Cape Cod. He will be hosted on Nantucket, summer digs of prominent liberals, by New York Jets owner Woody Johnson. Tickets go from $2,700 to $50,000.

Hillary Clinton has her own fundraiser on Nantucket two weeks later, hosted by former Portugal ambassador and big Democratic giver Elizabeth Frawley Bagley. Tickets to the two-hour event, graded by access, run from $1,000 to $27,000.

The presidential fundraising will take place as Obamas are vacationing on nearby Martha's Vineyard.

Trump is also headed for an East Hampton fundraiser on Long Island, close to where Bill and Hillary Clinton spend summers, unless directed elsewhere by opinion polls.

The Republican nominee heads for Wisconsin on August 16 -- he has refused to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan in his GOP primary -- and touches down August 19th in Minneapolis, represented in Congress by Rep. Keith Ellison, who is a Muslim.

All told, Trump has 21 fundraisers on the books for August. The Donald took in $80 million during July, largely from small contributions.

The Trump visit here is sure to get a bipartisan welcome.

Based on his promise in May, State Republican Chair Susan Hutchison has tied Washington's Republican Party to the Trump campaign. Hutchison called Texas Sen. Ted Cruz a "traitor" to his face after Cruz spoke to the GOP convention and refused to endorse Trump.

The state Democratic Party is certain to rejoice. They have worked months to link Republican gubernatorial nominee Bill Bryant with Trump. Gov. Jay Inslee has appeared to be running against Trump -- not Bryant -- with one statement of faux outrage after another against The Donald.