Donald Trump’s running mate Mike Pence has tried to focus on winning over conservatives who are skeptical of the NY billionaire, but his new boss keeps getting in the way.
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His new boss keeps getting in the way. Trump, who had never previously run for public office, beat 16 rivals to become the Republican presidential nominee for the November 8 election.
Manafort’s interview comes as Trump has fueled a spat with many in his party’s ranks over his refusal to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan and Sen. John McCain in their primaries against opponents who have embraced Trump and his message.
He said Republican nominee Trump understands the American people far more than their Democratic counterparts, calling Hillary Clinton’s speech at the Democratic National Convention “more of the same”. Pence appeared to ignore the question and kept moving down the line. Their son was killed in Iraq. Both Ryan and McCain spoke out against Trump’s statements about the Khan family.
But Johnson refused to withdraw his support of Trump.
Former George W. Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer expressed the sense of bewilderment settling over the political world when he reflected on Trump’s take-no-prisoners political style.
Pence asked the crowd to quiet down and then said of the questioner: “That’s what freedom looks like”.
“I really would like him to explain why he paid Chinese workers to make Trump ties”, she told employees in Denver, “instead of deciding to make those ties right here in Colorado”.
Pence’s statement was prepared before the Trump news conference in Doral, Florida, where he suggested that Russian Federation hack Clinton’s emails, a Pence aide said – indicating the campaign was comfortable with a split before it had happened, as opposed to Pence attempting to clean up a mess Trump had made.
Kinzinger, who had held off supporting Trump, told CNN on Wednesday: “I just don’t see how I get to Donald Trump anymore”. On Wednesday, Pence had a very different message.
Paul Manafort acknowledged “a conflict within the Trump campaign” after vice presidential candidate Mike Pence endorsed Ryan a day after Trump declined to do so. “He strongly encouraged me to endorse Paul Ryan in next Tuesday’s primary, and I’m pleased to do it”.
One woman claimed that “most new jobs” aren’t given to “Americans” and asked how Trump and Pence would change that. He recently gave a reporter in his travelling press entourage cupcakes for her birthday. And after law enforcement and local volunteers barred a Washington Post reporter from entering a rally in Wisconsin, Pence said on conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt’s radio show the campaign would evaluate its policy and added that events would be “available to the media, whether they’re fair or unfair”.
“I think it will be a challenge for Mike, but I also think he’ll meet the challenge”, Smith said of his friend Pence’s relationship with Trump. Even more staggering, Clinton had reserved $98 million in TV ad time, compared to Trump’s $817,000, NBC also reported.
In an email to MSNBC, Trump campaign spokesperson Hope Hicks addressed the speculation, saying: “There is no truth to this whatsoever”. “If he would focus on Hillary, if he’d focus on the economy, if he’d talk (President Barack) Obama and we don’t want a third term, he could win this race”.
Some party loyalists are scrambling to try to course correct Donald Trump’s erratic presidential campaign after the nominee suffered a startling number of self-inflicted campaign wounds in just the kick-off week of the general election race.
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“What unites us in these United States”, Pence said Tuesday in Tucson, “is so much more powerful than what could ever divide us; our belief in freedom, our belief in individual responsibility, our belief in the boundless capacity of every individual to live out their dreams, and our belief since before this nation was founded that we are one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all”.
