Former Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley on Sunday chided ex-Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski over the GOP nominee’s immigration policies, saying the USA isn’t an “only-for-white Americans sort of country”.
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“Tonight, I’m asking for the vote of every single African-American citizen in this country who wants to see a better future”, Mr Trump told the crowd.
In comparison, Democrats were more satisfied with Hillary Clinton as their nominee, with 56 per cent saying they were pleased while 42 per cent wish someone else were nominated. “If Hillary Clinton’s goal was to inflict pain on the African-American community, she couldn’t have done a better job”, Trump said. A Washington Post-ABC News poll released August 7 found Trump winning just 2 percent of the African-American vote.
The campaign’s new leadership combines Bannon, a combative conservative, with Conway, a data-driven analyst who has been trying to broaden Trump’s appeal to women and independent voters. “What the hell do you have to lose?” he asked. “Look, what do you have to lose?”.
Mr Moran said Mr Trump would not win the election later this year, but warned he could do long-term damage to the party by alienating Latino voters who dislike Trump’s inflammatory comments on illegal immigration.
In terms of fundraising, the Trump campaign brought in $37m for the month, compared to the $52m raised by Mrs Clinton.
On Friday, Trump described an African-American community beset by crumbling inner cities, failing schools and high unemployment, and suggested that Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party have taken the black vote for granted while doing nothing to help the community.
He said his challenger, Democrat Hillary Clinton, “would preferably supply employment to some refugee” than to jobless black youths, “who’ve become refugees inside their own state”.
“Trade deals will protect the American worker again”, he said. (Being a campaign manager is sort of like being a baseball manager; it’s nearly never “if” you get fired, it’s “when.”) And, for Manafort, who had been out of the political game for a very long time, Trump put him back in the mix – even though the real estate mogul ultimately canned him.
Trump seemed to refine his pitch on Saturday.
The media targeted Trump during the Democratic National Convention after he derisively answered criticism from Khizr Khan, the father of a US Muslim soldier killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq.
A disastrous stretch for Trump has helped solidify Clinton’s lead in national preference polls and most surveys in closely contested states.
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Back on April 19, when Donald Trump scored a lopsided victory in the NY presidential primary, so many things seemed possible. Old Guard GOPers like Tony Gioia, the former ambassador to Malta and a major Republican fundraiser, says he wants to back Trump.
