Bannon ultimately became chairman of Breitbart News.
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Now Rasmussen and thousands of Utah Republicans wary of Trump are left scrambling to settle on a candidate of choice come Election Day.
Trump has been badly damaged since denigrating the parents of a Muslim American soldier killed in Iraq, members of the so-called Gold Star families who have lost a loved one in military service. Instead of working to broaden his appeal, Trump has largely hewed to the large rallies and attention-grabbing comments that appealed to the party base.
“I’m not surprised that Kellyanne would sign on”.
In the letter, they say they want the money to go “down ballot” to vulnerable candidates like Marco Rubio, who is fighting to keep his Senate seat.
Meanwhile, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is leading Mr. Trump by about 5 percentage points in Florida, 3 points in OH, 2 points in North Carolina and 9 points in Pennsylvania, according to the latest Real Clear Politics averages.
“They were trying to change him, and every time they were trying to change him things got worse”. Well, their determination in their little Republican autopsy report was that they have a very severe problem with Hispanics and people of color.
Manafort, the campaign’s chief strategist, will stay on in his campaign chairman role, Conway said.
“It’s always good to bring more additional campaign staff on board, especially for the final push this fall”.
Trump plans to say things that will make headlines that will offend many. He said the addition of pollster Kellyanne Conway as campaign manager will be able to provide to the Trump campaign “some credence in terms of what matters to most people”. While Trump held a handful of meetings with Washington Republicans and fulfilled requests from GOP leaders to raise campaign cash, he’s continued to rankle lawmakers with his numerous controversies.
Mrs. Clinton has spent more than $60 million pummeling Mr. Trump with TV ads in battleground states.
“Trump’s campaign has now entered the Hospice Phase”.
“He’s one of the toughest, most aggressive, most negative operatives in America today and that signals to me that Trump, rather than softening his approach, is going to double down on being the tough, in-your-face campaigner, and I don’t think that’s what Donald Trump needs”, GOP focus group guru Frank Luntz said Wednesday morning on CBS. I think that’s concerning.
Clinton, campaigning Wednesday in Cleveland, said voters should not be fooled by any Trump efforts to revamp his candidacy.
The signatories, including 10 former House or Senate members and 27 former RNC staffers, urged the committee to stop providing the NY billionaire with resources before his “losing” campaign harms “Senate and House races”.
“It’s absolutely clear that after a long struggle within his campaign organization, Trump has prevailed”.
Critics warned that Bannon, a former Goldman Sachs banker, was unlikely to make the populist candidate, who has upended the Republican establishment, any more palatable to moderate voters or any less controversial. Lewandowski’s mantra was “let Trump be Trump” and Trump wants to get back to that type of campaign culture, the aides said.
Hillary Clinton shrugged off Donald Trump’s latest campaign shakeup Wednesday, saying he’s the “same man” who would cut taxes for rich people while she would force the super-wealthy to pay more.
Donald Trump on Tuesday accused rival Hillary Clinton of being “against the police” and claimed that she and other Democrats pander to African-American voters. He said people don’t have to support her politics to be excited that a local person has such a prominent role in a presidential campaign.
By Sunday, as Manafort appeared on network television shows, Trump was stewing and dialing up his friends, the Republicans said. “With the Trump campaign, it has actually happened”, Stuart Stevens, Mitt Romney’s chief strategist in 2012, wrote on Twitter. “It’s time we believe him”.
“Mr. Trump doesn’t trust him anymore”.
Corey Lewandowski, who was sacked as Trump campaign manager in June, said that hiring Mr. Bannon shows that Mr. Trump was running to win.
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“We reject the bigotry of Hillary Clinton, which panders to and talks down to communities of color and sees them only as votes – that’s all they care about”, the GOP nominee said in remarks delivered not far from Milwaukee – the latest city to be rocked by violence in the wake of a police shooting.
