While many in the GOP resisted.
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Donald Trump’s campaign turnaround plan on Friday featured the unorthodox candidate acting much like a conventional politician struggling to revive a presidential bid on the ropes.
The Associated Press reported Thursday that between 2012 and 2014 Manafort’s firm allegedly orchestrated a covert Washington lobbying operation on behalf of Ukraine’s then-ruling political party. Jon Podesta hasn’t been involved in the firm for years, but his brother, Tony, is still an executive there.
Trump’s spending in the Philadelphia market is “a reasonably robust buy”, said J.J. Balaban, a Democratic media consultant with the Campaign Group in Philadelphia.
Given his reputation, other presidential campaigns might be hesitant to hold meetings with Manafort, let alone put him in charge.
Some of Trump’s earlier speeches were stilted or stiff, but on Friday he was smoother and at times he left the script to improvise without going too far off track. Did you hear anything about the entire, upper echelon of the Democratic National party having to resign over a get Bernie Sanders campaign?
“It doesn’t matter who (Manafort) is, in my opinion”, said Erin Sherron, a vacationing 53-year-old dental hygienist and Trump supporter from Greensboro, N.C. “I am the change agent”. Within weeks, he effectively replaced former campaign manager Lewandowski, who was disdained by many within the party establishment as well as the Trump family.
“Fresh blood is a good thing”.
Sean Downey of Manchester is a longtime Democratic campaign operative who ran Clinton’s state political action committee before she became a 2016 candidate.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives onstage to speak at a rally in Dimondale, Michigan. 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. Clinton campaigned in OH and Pennsylvania this past week, and the Democratic nominee’s voter registration efforts and policy pitches went largely unnoticed as Trump shook up his campaign staff.
But the visit was met with harsh words from Gov. John Bel Edwards, whose spokesman Richard Carbo said, “We welcome him to LA, but not for a photo-op”. “They’re trying to shore up their base with 80 days to go”, said William Cunningham, a veteran political strategist and former senior adviser to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Trump, in a statement, praised Manafort’s work on the campaign and called him a “true professional”.
“Trump is in charge. He is that kind of leader”.
The tone was a shift from the night earlier, when Trump expressed rare regret for some of his more caustic comments although he did not say which comments. “I have done that”, Trump confessed. “And believe it or not, I regret it”, he said, drawing laughs and applause from the crowd.
Out of time to build a campaign to match Clinton’s, the team at Trump Tower will by necessity focus on a broad messaging effort to capture the attention of voters and try to highlight Clinton’s shortcomings. “I don’t know all the ins and outs, but Donald Trump is still the one running for president. 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. He urged them to abandoned Democrats, whom he said only take advantage of the African American voters.
“We’ve seen in politics a lot of chameleons”.
It is the nationalist who is benefiting from the propaganda of the Russian media and whose prospects of winning the election may depend, in part, on an “October surprise” engineered by Russian intelligence or its associates.
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The same day Trump named Bannon to head his campaign, there were reports that he had been meeting as well with Roger Ailes, the former head of Fox News who was forced out last month over charges of sexual harassment against numerous former and current employees of the network. The debate could be the critical opportunity for Trump to confront Clinton directly, after describing her as “crooked Hillary” and claiming she is the beneficiary of “a rigged system”. “I will take it eight days a week”.
