Trump fund-raiser in Boston on Monday

Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump will visit Boston on Monday for a high-dollar fund-raiser in the Financial District.

Trump, coming off a Tuesday night speech in which he sought to modulate the politically toxic tone that has turned off members of his own party in recent days, will fetch $2,700 per individual at the luncheon fund-raiser, according to an invitation.

For $10,000 per person, there is a “photo opportunity,’’ and couples can qualify as hosts for $25,000, either donated directly or raised.

The Langham Hotel fund-raiser, in the deeply Democratic capital of a deeply Democratic state, comes as Trump enters the general election phase of the campaign.

Former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton has received commitments from enough delegates to sew up the Democratic nomination. Meanwhile, top Republicans are defecting from Trump. On Tuesday, US Senator Mark Kirk, a Republican from Illinois, said he was withdrawing his support for Trump.

Trump has angered an already leery Republican establishment by suggesting Latino and Muslim justices could not adjudicate justly due to their ethnic backgrounds. On Tuesday night, he struck a more conciliatory tone in a speech read from a teleprompter, breaking with his habit of speaking off the cuff.

The June 13 event benefits Trump Victory, a joint fund-raising committee between Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee.

Jim O’Sullivan

TV station owner to host Trump in N.H.

When presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump returns to New Hampshire on Monday, he will give a speech and then attend a high-priced campaign fund-raiser hosted by the owner of one of the state’s broadcast television stations.

Businessman Bill Binnie made his money in the plastics industry before running unsuccessfully for the US Senate in 2010. After losing, he re-launched a local television station and began broadcasting television news and radio news over a number of local stations under the name NH1 in 2014.

But politics didn’t end when he began to own media companies. As owner of the station, he once served as the state Republican Party treasurer. Presently, Binnie’s right-hand aide serves as the state Republican Party’s vice chairman. In 2015, one of his television news anchors endorsed the Republican mayor of the state’s largest city for reelection. That mayor, Ted Gatsas, is now a Republican candidate for governor. Gail Huff, the wife of former US senator Scott Brown, is a special correspondent, who interviewed Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker while Walker was wooing Brown for his endorsement in the Republican presidential primary.

But it is the fund-raiser with Trump that is causing grumbling among New Hampshire Democrats.

“It’s just too much for me,’’ said Kathy Sullivan, New Hampshire’s Democratic National committeewoman. “There is a very partisan proclivity starting to permeate through the organization, and you have to ask the question if it impacts their coverage. Hopefully it won’t.’’

Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign had no on-the-record comment about the news station’s owner hosting a fund-raiser for her rival.

NH1 news director Robb Atkinson said, “Binnie’s fund-raiser activities are personal in nature and do not carry the endorsement of NH1 News.’’

James Pindell

The low-key race for Suffolk County Register of Deeds just got testy.

It started when candidate Katherine Forde, a 33-year-old Roslindale resident, singled out former Boston city councilor Stephen J. Murphy in a crowded field, calling him a serial campaigner.

“Voters are ready for an alternative to Steve Murphy,’’ read the subject line on Forde’s Monday e-mail to supporters.

While the e-mail text did not mention Murphy by name, Forde said that she raised $10,000 for her campaign from people who are “tired of the same group of politicians running for every office on the ballot.’’

They deserve a “genuine voice’’ and not “an opportunist who is running for a paycheck and the pension,’’ Forde wrote in another e-mail.

Murphy shot back.

“This is nothing but a cheap political attack by someone [who is] a candidate for register of deeds,’’ Murphy said in a statement.

Murphy has had several unsuccessful campaigns — sheriff, state treasurer, state representative, failed bids for the council. He served as councilor, beginning in 1997 until he lost reelection in November. Now he is seeking to fill a vacancy created after Francis “Mickey’’ Roacheresigned as register of deeds in January.

Forde, a paralegal, said she noticed Murphy campaign signs popping up in West Roxbury and Jamaica Plain. But people have been telling her they want a fresh face in office, Forde said, and she targeted Murphy because his name is the most recognizable among the challengers.

“I singled him out because obviously I see myself as a viable candidate to him,’’ she said. “I’ve been . . . hearing from people that they are sick of him running for office.’’

Asked to respond, Murphy preferred to talk about his current campaign.

“Instead of attacking those who are also running for this vacancy, I am working to meet people in Boston, Chelsea, Revere, and Winthrop, talking about my candidacy and informing people about the many aspects of how the office of the Registry of Deeds works,’’ he said.

The other candidates are Democrats Stephanie L. Everett, Michael B. MacKan, Paul F.Nutting Jr., and Jeffrey Michael Ross and Douglas Bennett, both of whom have campaigned in previous elections. Also on the ballot are Joseph M. Donnelly Jr., Margherita Ciampa-Coyne, and John A. Keith, state records show.

The preliminary election is Sept. 8. The general election is Nov. 8.

Meghan E. Irons

Graduation, starring Dad

For many, the college commencement ceremony — and the diploma that comes with it — marks a big step into adulthood. So who better to deliver the graduation day address than . . . your father?

AJ Baker, one of Governor Charlie Baker’s three children, will hear his dad’s advice on Sunday as he graduates with more than 550 students at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y.

Baker, himself a graduate of Harvard College, will be the featured speaker and receive an honorary doctorate of laws degree from Union during the college’s 222nd commencement.

The governor is no stranger to offering advice to a graduating class that happens to include one of his children. In 2015, he spoke at his daughter Caroline’s high school graduation at the Governor’s Academy in Byfield, a private school.

Joshua Miller