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Donald Trump may change his tune if he wins the nomination in July. | AP Photo Trump signals he's open to soliciting big donations

Donald Trump has largely self-funded his campaign because he's running as an individual in the Republican presidential primary, but as the party’s standard-bearer atop the GOP ticket, he may be open to accepting contributions from big donors, according to his convention manager, Paul Manafort.

“Well the point is that Donald Trump has been making on the campaign trail is that he’s financing his own campaign,” Manafort told conservative radio host Laura Ingraham on Thursday in an interview published by BuzzFeed. “That’s very important for him to say now in his mind because he wants people to know that he owes nobody anything other than the American people, or the voters who are picking, choosing his candidacy.”

But Trump may change his tune if he wins the nomination in July, as seems increasingly likely. The real estate mogul is the only remaining candidate with a mathematical path to win the nomination outright but risks allowing Ted Cruz to emerge as the nominee if both candidates head to a contested convention shy of 1,237 delegates.

“When it comes to the general election, we are no longer running as an individual, we are running as the head of a ticket,” Manafort said. “And so the party itself will be doing some things to raise money, and Mr. Trump has indicated that he’d be willing to help the party. But as far as he himself is concerned — but his point is he wants to make sure that he’s not beholden to anyone but the American people.”

Manafort, however, cautioned that Trump hasn’t decided whether he would accept contributions from big donors if he wins the primary.

“He has basically said, ‘I am only running my campaign right now, I’m not taking money from anybody, and I’m not going to take any money from anybody,’” Manafort continued. “Whether, how he will participate, in a broader context is yet to be determined.”

Trump told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Wednesday that he has friends who want to donate to the party — but only if he wins the nomination.

“I have a lot of friends who want to give a lot of money to the Republican Party. We're not going to do it until they find out whether or not I win," he said. “I have friends that will give tremendous amounts of money to the Republican Party.”