Earlier this week, Trump reshuffled his campaign leadership while his campaign chief, Paul Manafort, faced increased scrutiny over his work with pro-Russian political groups in the Ukraine.
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The message in all the change?
The Trump campaign began its first ad campaign, backed by a relatively modest $4.9 million. He has now surrounded himself with even more enablers pushing the notion that what got Trump to third base this year will bring him the rest of the way home on November 8. The damaging news included an Associated Press report Thursday describing a covert Washington lobbying operation run by Manafort’s firm.
Clinton’s 4.5-point lead? If that were to be her margin on Election Day, it would tie the largest margin of victory in the presidential contest in OH since 1996. Also unusual was his heavy use of a teleprompter.
The Clinton campaign and its main super PAC, Priorities USA, have spent at least $104 million on TV advertising so far. Trump raised $80 million for his bid and for party entities in July, his campaign said, while Clinton claimed to raise nearly $90 million.
Instead, a new Trump emerged on Thursday: a less combative, more inclusive candidate who said he was running to be the “voice for every forgotten part of this country that has been waiting and hoping for a better future” and for those who “don’t hear anyone speaking for them”.
Trump’s visit to southern Louisiana put pressure on Clinton.
Trump’s trip was a striking detour for a candidate who has largely stuck to boisterous rallies and phone-in interviews to appeal to voters. The question, then, is whether Bannon can find Trump some route to the White House by Trump being Trump. The decision suggested to some that Trump might ramp up the divisive rhetoric that has angered minorities and alienated large swaths of the electorate.
Later Friday, Trump fired up a rally in Dimondale, Michigan – but for the fourth time this week spoke with the aid of the telepromoters he used to revile.
1. OH has the working-class white voters that make up Trump’s support base.
Yet Trump has struggled badly in recent weeks to offer voters a consistent message, overshadowing formal policy speeches with a steady stream of self-created controversies, including a public feud with an American Muslim family whose son was killed while serving in the US military in Iraq.
“I am very appreciative for his great work in helping to get us where we are today, and in particular his work guiding us through the delegate and convention process”, Trump said.
While fraud can occur, the number of cases is very small and the type that voter IDs are created to prevent – voter impersonation at the ballot box – is virtually non-existent. Obama won roughly 93 percent of black voters in his re-election campaign in 2012.
The flipside is that voters may become more impressed with Trump’s campaign management style if he starts making good on one of his earliest campaign pledges – and starts winning.
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“Mr. Trump scares me, scares the hell out of me”, Bratton said. We need a leader with qualities that resemble those of Winston Churchill, and I believe that leader is Donald Trump.
