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Fund-raiser set for Boston
By Meg Bernhard
Globe Correspondent

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump will hold a fund-raiser in Boston Wednesday, two weeks after he canceled a similar high-dollar event following the Orlando shooting.

Trump’s event, to be held around noon at the Langham Hotel in the Financial District, is part of a daylong campaign trip in New England. He will also stop in Bangorin the afternoon for a rally at the Cross Insurance Center, which Maine’s governor, Paul LePage,said he would attend.

Trump’s events come as he faces scrutiny for his campaign’s lackluster finances. According to Federal Election Commission reports, Trump started June with $1.3 million on hand, compared with the Democrat Hillary Clinton’s $42 million. Trump’s Boston fund-raiser will draw $2,700 a seat.

Trump originally scheduled the Langham Hotel fund-raiser for June 13, but he canceled it after a mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub killed 49 people. On that day, his last trip to the region, Trump delivered a speech in Manchester, N.H., that criticized US immigration policy and Clinton.

A group of Boston residents is planning a protest of Trump’s fund-raiser, which they call a “Black-Out Trump’’ rally.

Meg Bernhard can be reached at meg.bernhard@globe.com.