As the Daily Beast noted Wednesday, next week is the deadline for removing Trump from the ballot in reliably red Arkansas and Oklahoma, and swing state North Carolina needs the candidate’s name to be certified by this Friday, August 5. “I’m here to tell you Donald, you’re wrong”, said Clinton.
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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.
Donald Trump’s campaign chairman is playing down a rift between the Republican nominee and House Speaker Paul Ryan.
Dent said he wouldn’t be voting for Hillary Clinton, either, citing her use of a private email server as secretary of state as one reason he considers the Democratic nominee to be “seriously flawed”. Noting that other democratic societies had disappeared after a few hundred years in existence, she said those who don’t believe the United States could see a similar fate are being naïve. Charlie Dent still called Rep. Hanna a “wonderful man” and did not go after him for his support of Clinton.
“This would be the end of any other Republican candidate in the history of the country”. He asserted that Trump busted the myth that GOP voters demand ideological purity from their candidates.
Trump suffered two more defections Wednesday when Representative Adam Kinzinger of IL, an Iraq War veteran, said on CNN he is unlikely to vote for Trump because the nominee was “beginning to cross a lot of red lines of the unforgivable in politics”.
The 15th Congressional District includes the Lehigh Valley and stretches from the eastern suburbs of Harrisburg to the New Jersey border.
The Republican nominee had attacked the soldier’s mother, Ghazala Khan, for remaining silent while on the podium at last week’s Democratic Convention saying she had been silenced by her husband on religious grounds. In addition, their support of Mrs Clinton challenges Mr Trump’s assertion that his business successes make him a better candidate for president.
But campaign chairman Paul Manafort, speaking Wednesday with Fox News, voiced confidence in the campaign’s position and denied knowledge of any intervention effort.
The campaign’s announcement of its fundraising haul came after Trump repeatedly touted that his campaign raised $35.8 million in small donations in the last month.
Of note: Clinton trails with independents by eight points, but gets 12 percent of the Republican vote to five percent of Democrats who say they’ll back Trump. He said the campaign is “focused, ” in “very good shape, ” and “moving forward”.
Clinton has 49 percent in the poll among likely Pennsylvania voters while Trump has 38 percent.
Manafort said that Trump’s dropping poll numbers “were expected” and that he expected the numbers to even out soon.
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Trump’s struggling with members of his own party. “I said, ‘Whoa! Whoa!”
