Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign.
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Trump’s new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, echoed Priebus’ optimism, contending that the candidate just had the best week of his campaign, “mostly because he’s able to be himself, the authentic Donald Trump” and “the pivot that he’s made is on substance”. “In essence, our strategy is to do a lot more in conjunction with the RNC”.
But the rise of Donald Trump and the Republican Party’s embrace of the real estate mogul have driven DeSouza away from the GOP.
Team Clinton’s ads have sought to use Trump’s harsh rhetoric about women and his call for ban on Muslims entering the United States to cast him as unfit for the White House. “I see love everywhere I go”, Trump said. “It doesn’t work that way”.
There is much good news but one piece of bad news for Clinton in the Trump shakeup.
In June, Trump reported just over $1.6 million in expenses for “digital consulting/online advertising”.
The Republican nominee’s constant state of campaign chaos is dulling the impact of stories about Clinton’s emails and allowing her to spend plenty of time raising money behind closed doors. However, things might change between now and November 8 when Americans would go out to vote to elect their 45th President. “We need him here because the president is not here”. That type of one-on-one interaction with voters is a staple of most political campaigning, yet something Trump had mostly avoided in favor of large rallies. “At least a half-dozen of Trump’s remaining aides have Russian connections, and let’s not forget about his own financial interests in the region, as well as his repeated praise for Putin”.
“Priorities spokesman Justin Barasky said the group has raised $153 million so far, with more than $9 million raised in July”. She’s maintained a staff of about 700 for months, opened up offices across the country and already spent $67 million on general election ads. Hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer, who contributed $2 million to a pro-Trump super political action committee in July, is an investor in Cambridge.
It is unclear why more money was not transferred from the joint fundraising committees, which are not scheduled to file their next finance reports until October 15. It said it had $58 million on hand at the start of August. “We were not focused on clearing out on every single penny at the end of month”, he said.
This reduces the chances that he will drop out of the presidential race, which, in turn, means that Clinton is more likely to avoid what would be the biggest blow to her chances: a Trump withdrawal and the naming of a new GOP candidate. She tore through $49 million of her funds in July – almost three times more than the $18.4 million Trump spent.
Last month Trump brought on some new consultants and firms, July reports to the Federal Election Commission show.
He has also been disappointed to see party leaders such as House Speaker Paul Ryan embrace Trump.
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Trump is left running from behind while also defending traditional Republican strongholds such as Georgia, where a recent Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll suggests even that may be in play for Clinton. The campaign now has a little more than $38 million in cash on hand. She took credit – and then blame- for writing Melania Trump’s speech at the Republican National Convention that included similar lines from Michelle Obama’s speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. “There’s a web of financial interests that have not been disclosed”, he said.
