The ad comes a day after Trump expressed “regret” for sometimes choosing the wrong words and causing “pain”.
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“I think people want him to be authentic”, Spicer said. “Particularly, where it may have caused personal pain”.
On substantive issues, he reached out to USA minorities, in particular blacks.
“Every time she’s asked about a policy position of her own, she takes an opportunity to insult Donald Trump”.
Pollster Kellyanne Conway, who has known Trump for years and gained his trust during her brief tenure working for him, will serve as campaign manager.
Now, with the candidate short on room for error, a gamble: Trump has brought in a new chief executive and campaign manager to right the ship.
“Donald Trump’s America is secure”, the ad continues. The long awaited “pivot” to the general election campaign no longer felt like wishful thinking – Trump and his campaign seemed poised to hammer at Clinton’s weaknesses while presenting the billionaire businessman as the only candidate with the particular experience and bravado to lead a revival.
Donald trump campaigns in Michigan Friday and will start running ads in four battleground states.
Also Friday, Trump started airing his first ads of the general election after moving a day earlier to invest almost $5 million in battleground state advertising.
“In Hillary Clinton’s America, the system stays rigged against Americans”, a narrator says in the 30-second ad released Friday.
Criticized for using the first person pronoun at his convention speech, Trump in North Carolina emphasized shared responsibility. Thursday’s speech took on an entirely new tone, with Trump saying, “I’ve traveled all across this country laying out my bold and modern agenda for change”.
Clinton, he claimed, “sees communities of color only as votes and not as human beings worthy of a better future”. “I will never put a donor before a voter, or a lobbyist before a citizen”, he said.
While Manafort maintains his title, Trump allies made clear Bannon will be overseeing the campaign staff and operations. The Clinton campaign has outspent Trump on air $61 million to $0, according to data from Advertising Analytics/NBC News.
Trump told CNN’s Don Lemon he had no regrets.
“We learned tonight that his speechwriter and teleprompter knows he has much for which he should apologize. But that apology tonight is simply a well-written phrase until he tells us which of his many offensive, bullying and divisive comments he regrets_and changes his tune altogether”, she said.
Of course, throughout this election year, critics of Trump and Clinton have posited several theories on how to actually remove either or both of them from their place as nominees: a brokered convention, an Federal Bureau of Investigation indictment, or ongoing rumors that at least one of them might just decide to drop out.
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The Republican National Committee has already conceded it may divert resources away from the presidential contest favor of vulnerable Senate and House candidates if Trump’s standing does not improve in the coming weeks.
