Those revelations included an Associated Press report from Thursday, which revealed Manafort’s firm orchestrated a covert US lobbying operation on the party’s behalf. The sum was roughly equal to how much Trump’s campaign paid him as manager.
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“I think my father didn’t want to be, you know, distracted by you know whatever things Paul was dealing with”, Eric Trump said.
Trump’s campaign said that as of August 1 it had $37 million in cash and another $37 million in joint accounts with the Republican National Committee.
Spending was more lopsided: $34.5 million by Clinton, $7.8 million by Trump.
While Trump did bring in a new set of advisers in the past week, it appears all but certain his comeback strategy can not benefit from the proven building blocks of winning campaigns, especially when compared with the structure Clinton has assembled.
And if the theme of this latest bit of Trump court intrigue is a return to the “Let Trump be Trump” philosophy, Clinton’s operatives will only cheer. He’d pledged to contribute as part of a fundraising pitch to small donors, telling them he’d match their efforts up to that amount.
“This new team will be very, very aggressive”.
Trump’s controversial views worked to rally the base during the Republican primaries. He has been a close adviser and was among those shortlisted as potential vice president before Trump chose Mike Pence as his running mate. Trump has said he will not release his returns while they are under an IRS audit, though no law prohibits that release.
More than 40,000 homes have been damaged by the floods in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. “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. It’s not even clear whether Trump can maintain this new posture through the weekend. Campaign sources said that Trump had been unhappy with Manafort for a variety of reasons.
The campaign’s overall strategy and operations are now firmly under the sway of Stephen Bannon, a right-wing media executive, and Kellyanne Conway, a Republican pollster. “TOO MANY COOKS’ John Feehery, a Republican strategist, said it would have been unsustainable for Manafort to stay on after Wednesday’s hires”.
On Friday, he also began airing his first television advertisement since becoming the Republican candidate, buying airtime in the crucial states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Florida, where Clinton has already spent of millions in television advertising. “She’s going to insult Donald Trump and we’ll talk directly to the voters”, Conway said. The answer is everything from a man who questions the citizenship of the first African American President, courts white supremacists, and has been sued for housing discrimination against communities of color.
“He resigned because he thought the unfair and unfounded attacks on him would become a distraction and he doesn’t want to do anything that hurts the election of Trump”, Stone said.
Clinton, responding to Trump’s appeal, fired back Friday evening, tweeting, “This is so ignorant it’s staggering”.
Polls now mostly show Trump lagging Clinton by 5 percentage points or more nationally, but Priebus predicted they will tighten up and Trump will be “ahead as we move through September”. Obama won roughly 93 percent of black voters in his re-election campaign in 2012.
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“Sometimes in the heat of debate and speaking on a multitude of issues, you don’t choose the right words or you say the wrong thing”. On Monday, in response to an earlier media report that carried the allegations, he issued a statement in which he said he had “never received a single “off-the-books cash payment” as “reported” by the ‘The New York Times, ‘ nor have I ever done work for the governments of Ukraine or Russian Federation”.
