The Washington Examiner asks several Utah political insiders to explain why Beehive State voters have such a standoffish attitude toward Donald Trump-a reticence outweighed only by Utahns’ antipathy for Hillary Clinton.
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Meanwhile, the Republican Party could be nearing a breaking point with Donald Trump.
With great fanfare, Trump’s campaign opened a New Jersey office on May 3 in Edison, which attracted a crowd of more than 1,000 supporters, according to a local news account.
CT is not a swing state, having last voted for a Republican in 1988 for former state resident George H.W. Bush. Trump traveled to ME last week, a state that has also been blue since 1992.
“The state of CT is the biggest warning of what Hillary Clinton economic policies will look like”, Romano said.
On Fox News, Trump pointed to Spicer’s tweet and a press release from the RNC that said the storylines were false, adding that it wouldn’t be an issue if they were true. If they do, he said, he’ll just cut them off in return.
The imbalance in ad spending is astonishing. Donald Trump has spent zero. They’d like him to be disciplined.
After Mitt Romney’s devastating defeat in 2012, the GOP did an “autopsy” of the election and a major finding was the need to reach out to minorities, particularly Hispanics. They were burying us with negative ads in swing states well before Labor Day.
“Donald Trump is going to protect us, protect this country”.
It’s not entirely surprising, considering many lawmakers are locked in competitive reelection races keeping them busy at home. Once the party reaches October, they’ll have enough cash to go forward without Trump. Trump isn’t articulating policy stances, he’s floating negotiating positions.
Near the Republican National Convention, it seemed to Republicans that Trump would be making a pivot to a more “presidential” tone, with congressional Republicans – like House Speaker Paul Ryan – beginning to endorse the billionaire businessman. “There is no worse feeling on a campaign than seeing your opponent hit you in a TV and you’re not responding”, said Barbour. “As for Mr. Trump, he needs to stop blaming everyone else and decide if he wants to behave like someone who wants to be President – or turn the nomination over to Mike Pence”. In states where Team Trump is doing very little actual work, the RNC has a formidable on-the-ground operation, helping pick up the slack.
“I’m having a tough time with it, as a lot of people are”.
The board wrote that it “should be obvious” to Trump that the campaign is dysfunctional. Early fundraising reports were paltry, but that is no longer the case.
That’s led to tension between the Trump campaign and RNC officials over strategies and tactics.
The insult came after an editorial said it was not “obvious” after a Republican debate that Trump had “any idea what’s in the Trans-Pacific Partnership” that he opposes. Then he said he was being sarcastic.
At both the Democratic and Republican national conventions in July, members of the audience displayed signs of dissent. Just 33 percent of Republicans said they thought Trump would in in November, whereas 85 percent of Democrats thought Clinton would win. Tom Coleman of Missouri, and about 20 former RNC staffers, CBS News reported.
At a rally Thursday in Florida, Trump, who normally only speaks about winning, admitted he is having a “tremendous problem” in reliably red Utah.
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Mr. Trump may not have purposefully snubbed black neighborhoods – he rarely plunges into any community to tour businesses, sample local cuisine or spontaneously engage in the handshake and back-patting rituals of everyday campaigning.
