The campaign shake-up, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, comes as polls show Trump trailing Clinton nationally and in key battleground states after a hard campaign stretch that saw him insulting the Muslim parents of a U.S. Army soldier who died in Iraq and temporarily refraining from endorsing House Speaker Paul Ryan in his primary race.
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“I am committed to doing whatever it takes to win this election, and ultimately become President because our country can not afford four more years of the failed Obama-Clinton policies which have endangered our financial and physical security”, Trump said in the announcement.
Mr Trump also argued that the media was distorting what he has said.
The Republican White House nominee, who is tanking in swing states to his Democratic rival, hired a news executive from a virulently anti-Clinton website as his campaign chief executive and promoted a leading Republican strategist to campaign manager.
“We’re going to sharpen the message”, Conway told broadcaster “CNN” on Thursday. “We’re going to make sure Donald Trump is comfortable about being in his own skin – that he doesn’t lose that authenticity that you simply can’t buy and a pollster can’t give you”. And you know, I hope you will talk to any of your friends who are flitting with the idea of voting for Donald Trump.
Rarely do presidential campaigns wait to advertise, or undergo such leadership tumult, at such a late stage of the general election.
But Trump appeared to be referring to comments he made Wednesday in an interview on Fox News.
The Republican presidential nominee also announced that this week his campaign will launch TV ads for the first time. There are many people that like what I said. “Those states are critical on that pathway”.
Trump is spending at least $1.4 million in Florida, $1 million in Pennsylvania, about $831,000 in North Carolina and $746,000 in OH, according to Kantar Media.
Clinton said at a voter registration event at a Philadelphia high school that she’s “not taking anybody anywhere for granted” in the race for the White House, saying the stakes “could not be higher”.
‘There is no new Donald Trump – this is it, ‘ Clinton said, substituting the news of the day into a section of her stump speech where she routinely attacks Trump as unfit for office.
“We need to work together to bridge our divides, not stoke even more divisiveness”, Clinton said at New York’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice. One, called Rebuilding America Now, has spent about $9 million in the past few weeks.
A Clinton PAC, Priorities USA Action, has bought $37 million worth of ads for the former secretary of state. And that’s just one of several groups helping her.
“We’ve got to get away from this content-free campaign and on to the substance”, she said.
Speaking today in Cleveland, Clinton also continued to contrast her tax plan with Trump’s.
Campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who formally took over the reins following the departure of Corey Lewandowski in June, will maintain his current title, Trump said.
But many conservatives are far from pleased with Trump’s appointment, and the displeasure runs deep in both the GOP establishment and the right-wing media.
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“His performance with those voters is so dismal that it puts other states potentially in play in an offensive way for Democrats”, Bird said.
