“Hillary Clinton is a legacy of death, destruction and terrorism”, Trump said, reading from prepared text.
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Ironically, Manafort stepped out while Trump’s campaign appeared to be headed toward the pivot he’d pushed for.
Trump later accused his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton of wanting to give American jobs to refugees rather than unemployed African-Americans, who he said have “become refugees in their own country”.
Trump flew into MI later on Friday to address a rally, explaining his appearance in an open-necked shirt and trucker hat by saying he had come straight from “a tour of the suffering and devastation in Louisiana”.
Republican candidate Donald Trump’s presidential campaign on Friday, days after he was effectively demoted in a shake-up of the campaign’s leadership.
But if Trump’s newfound magnanimity was less than convincing, his efforts at inclusiveness may also backfire with the far-right base that remains the dark heart of his campaign.
After an appearance in OH on Wednesday, the top headline the next day in The Plain Dealer in Cleveland read, “Clinton Tears Trump Plan to Cut Estate Tax”, while The New York Times’ main campaign story focused on the tumult in the Trump campaign. She has around 700 individuals on the payroll, while Trump has just 70.
“But you had two of these things in concert”, said a GOP strategist who knows Manafort and, like others interviewed, requested anonymity to comment on the Trump campaign. It goes to the heart of what are perceived as Trump’s foreign policy objectives, and frankly his too-soft attitude toward Russia’s president.
“Trying to find that sweet spot where Donald could be Donald, but you can also put together the formal structures and the professional aspects of the campaign was a lot tougher for one person to do”, he said.
“I think Donald Trump ought to really investigate this and where his chief adviser, what his association with the Russians are”, Rep. Adam Kinzinger of IL told CNN’s Jake Tapper earlier this week. Clinton’s campaign raised 52 million dollars (£39.8 million). “They had everything kind of worked on what they’d do”.
“I fully recognize that outreach to the African-American community is an area where the Republican Party must do better, and will do better”, Trump said in Fredericksburg, located between Richmond and Washington in the critical battleground state of Virginia. In interviews, almost one dozen Republican operatives said they had begun poll-testing the idea – which one labeled a “break glass in case of emergency” strategy – to gauge how the public would react to it. “And believe it or not, I regret it”, he said, drawing laughs and applause from the crowd.
“I am your messenger … nothing more than your messenger”, he said. Bernie Sanders said he plans to return to the campaign trail after Labor Day with an eye toward energizing working-class and young voters to support Clinton. “Paul Manafort’s resignation is a clear admission that the disturbing connections between Donald Trump’s team and pro-Kremlin elements in Russian Federation and Ukraine are untenable”.
His Gotta Be Me declaration on Wisconsin television signaled the predicable end to the effort by veteran operative Paul Manafort to “pivot” the crude and free-swinging victor of the 2016 Republican primaries away from the style with which he rolled over a bunch of weak sisters.
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Information for this article was contributed by Steve Peoples, Julie Bykowicz, Jonathan Lemire, Ken Thomas, Catherine Lucey, Jill Colvin and Lisa Lerer of The Associated Press; by John Wagner, Matt Zapotosky and Robert O’Harrow Jr. of The Washington Post; and by Kevin Cirilli of Bloomberg News.
