On Wednesday, he overhauled his campaign management team for the second time in as many months, seeking to save his struggling White House bid. “Our border open. It’s more of the same, but worse”.
Advertisement
“I have done that”.
“I’m not running against Crooked Hillary, I’m running against the crooked media”, he said on August 13 during a rally in Fairfield, Conn. “But I personally don’t regret anything that he’s said”.
“And I do regret it, particularly where it may have caused personal pain”, Mr. Trump added. That’s the actual finding of a new analysis conducted by demographer William Frey of the Brookings Institution….’If the voting on election day is in line with the Washington Post poll, even if all non-college white men show up on Election Day to vote, it would be hard for Trump to win, ‘ Frey told me.
The New York billionaire’s multiple self-inflicted wounds of late have left him trailing in virtually every battleground state. In particular, he has been rebuked for his prolonged feud with the family of a Muslim U.S. Army captain who was killed in the Iraq war.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign said there was nothing honest about Trump’s contrition.
A Real Clear Politics average of national polls shows Clinton holds a 5.5 percentage point lead in a four-way race among Trump, Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein.
His newly appointed campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, did not provide any more context about his apology during an appearance on Good Morning America Friday morning.
Prior to the Trump collapse this month, Trump was tied with Hillary Clinton in these states.
Just three days ago, Donald Trump told a CBS affiliate in Wisconsin, “I don’t want to change …” That has led United States officials to reach a preliminary assessment that Russia’s military and civilian intelligence agencies or their proxies have targeted both political parties.
During that speech in Wisconsin, he made a direct appeal to African-Americans.
DONALD TRUMP MAY BE LOSING SUPPORT AMONG WHITE MEN – Jeremy W. Peters: “Donald J. Trump’s support among white men, the linchpin of his presidential campaign, is showing surprising signs of weakness that could foreclose his only remaining path to victory in November”.
Election Day is 81 days away, with early voting in the first states to begin in five weeks. “Because we’re stronger together”.
He still stressed his standard campaign pillars of building a wall along the border with Mexico, keeping out undocumented foreigners and opposing worldwide trade accords.
The timing of the ad also comes on the same day Trump’s outspoken campaign chairman Paul Manafort resigned.
But the “new” Trump – disciplined and serious – was already gaining traction with fans. Some sources inside the Trump camp say Manafort was pushed aside so Steven Bannon, a conservative media executive, would take over. The top two candidates are neck-and-neck among older voters.
Advertisement
“I hope he doesn’t get too PC”, he said.
