Nevertheless, it’s a jolting prospect now, with roughly three months still left before the November 8 vote and weeks before the three presidential debates.
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“That was the work and the support of Putin, who is Trump’s best buddy”, McCaskill said.
That would be a disaster for Trump, who is running a barebones campaign that relies heavily on the RNC for battleground staff and other basic functions.
Former Bush administration official Carlos Gutierrez says he will be voting for Hillary Clinton, calling Donald Trump’s economic policies a “disaster”.
And his backers are blaming the media for the perception that all is not well.
Despite his endorsement of Trump, Lyons said he has no plans to campaign for him or raise money on his behalf, and is instead focused on his own reelection. “For the last week or so, he’s been very focused and very much on his game”.
However, recent polls have shown Trump’s numbers sagging badly in those battleground states, notably hurt by his critical comments about the Muslim parents of a fallen U.S. soldier, and what some saw as his suggestion that “Second Amendment groups” – gun lovers – take their dislike for Clinton into their own hands.
Trump is also expected to propose a new immigration policy under which the USA would stop issuing visas in cases where adequate screenings can’t be performed.
This past week, the Washington-based oversight group Judicial Watch, released a new batch of emails that show there were contacts between close Clinton aides Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin and donors to the Clinton Foundation and to other political campaigns.
“You’ve had this whole morning talking about nothing but negative on the Trump campaign”, Sessions said on ABC’s “This Week”. “He’s essentially guaranteeing that he will lose by refusing to clean up his mistakes and stop committing future ones”.
The leader of Hezbollah this weekend quoted Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s accusation that President Obama and Trump’s Democratic rival Hillary Clinton founded ISIS.
Only hours before, the billionaire businessman had restated the allegation with no mention of sarcasm, telling rally-goers in Kissimmee, Florida, that “I’ve been saying that Barack Obama is the founder”.
They call the NY real estate mogul a threat to the party and to the nation.
The RNC, they say, could quietly make the kinds of adjustments that would benefit down-ticket candidates to the detriment of Trump.
“The tragedy is that the South’s authorities are incapable of feeling any national shame, no matter how their American masters subject them to an unbearable humiliation”. They could abandon a state such as Virginia, for example, and focus more on a state such as IN, where Democrat Evan Bayh is trying to make a Senate comeback.
The cascade of Republicans seeking separation from Trump reached new levels this week and was punctuated by several high-profile defections, including centrist Republican senator Susan Collins of Maine.
Michigan Democratic Party Chairman Brandon Dillon said Democrats’ bid to take control of the GOP-led state House this fall could be helped by Trump’s “continuing display of reckless behavior”.
The Hezbollah comments expanded the roster of rogue foreign leaders or groups making comments complimentary or supportive of Trump. The party chairman joined the nominee on Friday, part of a larger effort to ensure an experienced political hand is nearly always at the candidate’s side when he travels.
There is also former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani.
“Frankly, a lot of stuff over the last week.it’s him being distorted”, Manafort said.
Some credit that strategy for Trump’s avoiding devastating unforced errors, such as his tussle with Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the Muslim-Americans parents whose son, U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan, was killed in Iraq in 2004.
Scores of current and former Republican lawmakers and officials have similarly declared their intention to either sit this election out or cross party lines in the fall.
One day after clarifying his statement to Hewitt, Trump insisted he was being sarcastic.
It’s those kinds of moments that lead experienced Republicans to think Trump can not be saved from himself.
Collins became the fourth of 54 GOP senators who’ve said that they can not support the party’s nominee.
And among likely Republican voters, Trump’s support has remained stagnant.
She’s hoping to capitalize on Donald Trump’s promises to deport them.
“Why be fake?” she asked. “This is the kind of thing that does build on itself, and has, I think, made mountains out of molehills”. There was a time when a Democrat president knew where the buck stopped in the White House.
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In a series of comments Sunday on his Twitter account, Trump blamed the news media for his standing in the race against Clinton to replace Obama when he leaves office next January.
