Spicer also urged caution as Trump’s new team contemplates whether the fiery populism and freewheeling style that won him the Republican nomination will give him a better shot at the White House than uniting his party and rallying moderate voters.
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Her remarks came shortly after Trump, struggling to steady his troubled campaign, announced a new chief executive officer and campaign manager.
Her campaign said the two met backstage and chatted about the 2016 campaign, the Summer Olympics and their families.
Some in the pro-Texas contingent argue that if states like OH and Florida look to be runaways for Democrats, there might be extra money to throw at Texas, especially given that Democratic super PAC spending has exploded since 2012.
While Manafort retains his title, Trump allies made clear Bannon will be overseeing the campaign staff and operations. Many Democrats have a bitter view of Nader despite what he accomplished because they saw his campaign as costing Al Gore the presidency in 2000. The website, which Bannon has been closely involved with since its launch in 2007, has also been a center for conspiracy theories about Clinton’s health as well as stories about Bill Clinton’s alleged treatment of women.
Conway downplayed the notion of internal dissent at campaign headquarters at Trump Tower, telling The Associated Press the staffing changes are “an expansion at a critical time in the homestretch”.
Hillary Clinton is leading Donald Trump by two percentage points in the swing state of Nevada, according to a poll released Thursday.
One thing did change about the Trump campaign in OH this week.
“We need to work together to bridge our divides, not stoke even more divisiveness”, Clinton said at New York’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Manafort has spent months trying to ingratiate Trump to Republican lawmakers who have urged the billionaire businessman to dial back his fiery rhetoric and run a more traditional campaign.
As Enten notes, there are any number of things that can happen in the next eighty or so days that could turn this election around.
Trump has said he will not release his tax returns until the IRS has completed an audit of his returns.
“And if they’re not going to help us, they’re to blame also”, Mr Trump said and indicated favouring racial profiling otherwise.
Clinton, campaigning Wednesday in Cleveland, said voters should not be fooled by any Trump efforts to revamp his candidacy.
“I have known Steve and Kellyanne both for many years”. Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus said in a statement that Clinton’s tax plan would “kill jobs, reduce wages and hurt economic growth” and her prior Senate votes showed “she can’t be trusted to look out for the middle class”.
A new brain trust in place, Donald Trump on Thursday moved to invest almost $5 million in battleground state advertising as the Republican presidential contender took modest steps to address daunting challenges in the states that will make or break his White House ambitions.
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Wednesday’s is the second personnel shake-up at the top since June 20, when Trump dropped his first manager, Corey Lewandowski, who was sidelined by Manafort after he courted controversy by allegedly grabbing a Breitbart reporter. But Trump scares him. “That’s it. Pure and simple”, a source familiar with the tensions told CNN, adding that Trump’s gaffes and controversial statements in recent weeks have been fueled in part by his “exasperation” with the campaign’s management. But Trump refused to be managed.
