“If African American voters give Donald Trump a chance y giving me their vote the result for them will be fantastic”.
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump apologised on Thursday for past remarks that “may have caused personal pain” as he sought to refocus his message in the face of falling opinion poll numbers in his first speech since shaking up his campaign team this week.
Donald Trump’s struggling candidacy has become a direct threat to Republican control of Congress, significantly increasing the likelihood that Democrats will take control of the Senate and cut substantially into the House Republican majority next year. Trump has yet to purchase time in Virginia, though a campaign adviser said earlier this week that he planned to do so. Earlier Thursday, Trump moved to invest almost $5 million in battleground state advertising to address daunting challenges in the states that will make or break his White House ambitions.
With election day being 81 days out, the Republican presidential hopeful made television reservations over the next 10 days in Pennsylvania, Florida, North Carolina and Ohio.
Trump also made a major appeal to the African-American voters, telling them that they have nothing to lose by choosing him, “We are going to reject bigotry and I will tell you the bigotry of Hillary Clinton is unbelievable, she sees communities of color only as votes and not as human beings.She’s been there forever, and look at where you are”.
“So while sometimes I can be too honest, Hillary Clinton is the exact opposite: she never tells the truth”.
Trump criticized the media for focusing on the content of his remarks rather than the problems facing voters.
Clinton, he claimed, “sees communities of color only as votes and not as human beings worthy of a better future”. “He has continued to do so through each of the 428 days from then until now, without shame or regret”, said spokeswoman Christina Reynolds in a statement.
The campaign for his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, quickly dismissed Trump’s apology, saying: “Donald Trump literally started his campaign by insulting people”.
“We learned tonight that his speechwriter and teleprompter knows he has much for which he should apologize”.
It remains to be seen whether Trump’s reboot comes too late, and whether he has the discipline to maintain it.
He now trails Clinton in preference polls of most key battleground states.
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“He doesn’t look at things through a political lens”, like traditional politicians, she said of Trump, who has never held elected office.
