“First of all, I am told RNC chairman Reince Priebus is furious, that he has had multiple discussions with Trump telling him he needs to drastically change course”, said Karl. John McCain in their primaries.
Advertisement
The fundraising gap between the Clinton and Trump campaigns shrank in July.
Donald Trump might be trailing Hillary Clinton by several points in national polls, but as Americans learned during the 2000 election, the popular vote doesn’t mean everything.
The ad, posted Thursday morning, opens with Rep. Mike Coffman speaking directly to the camera, saying: “People ask me, ‘what do you think about (Donald) Trump?’ Honestly, I don’t care for him much”.
“In this case I am so profoundly convinced, and have been for some time, that Trump is unqualified and a danger to this country and you see it daily”, said Hanna.
Throughout the day, there were persistent reports that allies of Trump, including Priebus, Gingrich and former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, were trying to arrange a meeting with Trump to urge him to refocus his candidacy.
In the last 16 presidential elections dating back to 1952, only Bill Clinton carried Arizona as a Democrat in 1996.
In other words, the Republicans have a month to try to force Trump’s hand.
“The campaign continues to work with the RNC to support its important operations for the Republican Party, and elect Republicans down the ballot this November”, the campaign’s statement said. Most of Trump’s branded neckties, shirts and suits are made overseas, in China and Bangladesh, as are the bulk of the products sold by his daughter, Ivanka.
“The election is going to be rigged”, he said. “That would be awful”, he said during a campaign stop in battleground Florida.
“By the way, those people who knocked down the World Trade Center, most likely under the Trump policy wouldn’t have been here to knock down the World Trade Center”, he said.
FILE – Republican U.S. Presidential nominee Donald Trump talks to Lt. Col. Louis Dorfman, who gave Trump his Purple Heart, during a campaign event at Briar Woods High School in Ashburn, Virginia, Aug. 2, 2016. Throughout the Republican primary, polls showed Trump at or near the top of the field. A WBUR/MassINC poll in New Hampshire showed Clinton leading Trump, 47 percent to 32 percent.
Advertisement
But Trump told his supporters “the campaign is doing really well”. It served as his uber-example of how out of touch the party establishment was with its base; every time they predicted something he said or did would doom his campaign, his poll numbers went up.
