Trump argues that this is precisely why he’s behind, that his supporters don’t want to tell people on the phone that they support him.
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Well, rest easy, America.
It’s a vulnerability the campaign says it’s aware of and is convinced it can solve, if Mr. Trump tailors his appeal correctly.
“I’ve made mistakes. I don’t know anyone who hasn’t. I have done that”, the GOP nominee, reading from prepared text, said at a rally in Charlotte, N.C. Thursday night. “In this journey, I will never lie to you. If you start pivoting, you’re not being honest with people”.
Neither Manafort nor Gates were taking a paycheck from the Trump campaign as of June 30, according to campaign finance reports filed with federal regulators. “He is obviously turning off large swaths of the country”.
Luckily for us, Trump is having none of it. “By the way, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks”.
In an interview with Fox News Friday, Trump’s son Eric said that Manafort “was incredible”, but his father didn’t want to be “distracted by whatever things Paul was dealing with”. Earlier this week, he tapped Stephen Bannon, a combative conservative media executive, as his new campaign chief. Kellyanne Conway, a Republican pollster, joined as the team’s new campaign manager. In both types of polls, he saw declines after the conventions were over.
But Trump continued his warnings, calling on Friday for “election observers” on his official website to “stop Crooked Hillary from rigging this election”. A new Quinnipiac poll has Clinton with leads in Colorado and Iowa. In a recent poll in Ohio, Mr. Trump held a 2-point lead among white women, but Mrs. Clinton led by 4 points overall.
“It’s so irrational to even try just for one or two more votes”, said Minnite, author of “The Myth of Voter Fraud”. Previously, Trump had eschewed such events that historically comprise a significant portion of a candidate’s time.
“This morning, Paul Manafort offered, and I accepted, his resignation from the campaign”, the Republican nominee said in a statement. Trump’s operation on Friday released its first general election TV commercial, one of two set to run in battleground states over the next 10 days. “And it sent a signal, perhaps more clearly than ever, that the real-estate magnate intends to finish this race on his own terms, with friends who share his instincts at his side”. “That means if Democrats get out their voters, they’re going to do well”. Only 20 percent of potential Clinton voters expressed little or no confidence in the accuracy of the upcoming vote, compared with 51 percent of Trump supporters.
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Obama is also vacationing on the island, although it is unclear whether he and Michelle Obama plan to join the Clintons for the momentous occasion.
