The campaign shakeup, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, comes as polls show Trump trailing Clinton nationally and in key battleground states following a hard campaign stretch that saw him insulting the Muslim parents of a U.S. Army soldier who died in Iraq and temporarily refraining from endorsing House Speaker Paul Ryan in his primary race.
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“Given the catastrophic impact that Donald Trump’s losing presidential campaign will have on down-ballot Senate and House races, we urge you to immediately suspend all discretionary RNC support for Trump and focus the entirety of the RNC’s available resources on preserving the GOP’s congressional majorities”, says the letter, whose draft CBS reported on last week when there were already 70 signatures.
Trump told NBC affiliate WEAU he had wanted to “get out” of Iraq but ‘keep the oil, ‘ a day after he admonished President Obama for the withdrawal of USA forces that left a vacuum for ISIS.
Donald Trump says he wants the votes of all African-Americans, despite his dismal performance with the group in early opinion surveys.
“We reject the bigotry of Hillary Clinton, which panders to and talks down to communities of colour and sees them only as votes – that’s all they care about”, Trump said in remarks delivered not far from Milwaukee – the latest city to be overcome by violence in the wake of a police shooting. They are taking advantage’.
Stewart said Trump would soon begin broadening his travels in Virginia in the hopes of attracting more African American voters, whom Stewart believes would be receptive to Trump’s messages on immigration and the economy, in particular.
Trump encountered only a handful of peaceful protesters while he was in the city, including at a closed fundraiser.
Trump briefly met with veterans and police officers Tuesday afternoon during a campaign stop at the Milwaukee County War Memorial Center in Milwaukee, including with Sheriff David Clarke and Sheriff’s Inspector Edward Bailey.
A Fox News representative would not elaborate on security for the event.
“The problem in our minority communities is not that there is too much police but that there is not enough police”, he said.
Trump also spoke more broadly about restoring “law and order”. He spoke before an nearly entirely white audience.
Clinton and her allies meanwhile have spent over $105 million since the conclusion of the Democratic primary on radio and television.
The number of likely voters who picked neither Clinton nor Trump in the poll was almost 24 percent.
Trump has caused divisions in the Republican Party with his strong anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric, and faced criticism from both parties earlier this month for a days-long feud with the parents of a Muslim American Army captain killed in Iraq.
While guarding against complacency, Clinton is also preparing for a potential administration.
Trump, speaking from a teleprompter in West Bend, Wisconsin, said Democrats’ policies have failed blacks by worsening crime and poverty.
‘But the gun was pointed at his (a police officer’s) head supposedly ready to be fired. Who can have a problem with that?
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Clinton and Trump have each sought the upper hand as the chief executive most capable of battling terrorism. “Maybe it’s not true”.
