“We shared it in some other places – Twitter, Reddit, etc. – to help it get some legs, but our goal certainly wasn’t to have it picked up by RCP and Drudge”, he said. Clinton is yet to gain that status as she is facing a tough battle from Senator Bernie Sanders. In primaries, Clinton’s done much better with women than men, and her campaign team is banking on a similar result in the general election.
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Trump did less well with very conservative voters during the primary.
Hillary Clinton’s allies have crafted a plan to hit Donald Trump hard and hit him early with a $96 million TV ad blitz before Clinton has even wrapped up her party’s nomination. Going forward, Fabrizio will work with Trump and committee staff on voter modeling, overseeing polling and voter targeting, according to someone familiar with the hiring.
He blasted Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims entering the country as “unconstitutional”, called on Trump to control violence at some campaign rallies, and condemned him for failing to more aggressively disavow an endorsement from a white supremacist.
Trump begins the hiring process drawing from a pool of state-based loyalists who are largely inexperienced and relatively unknown to those leading his political operation. They include traditional battlegrounds like OH and Florida and more challenging terrain like Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin and ME which haven’t favored a Republican presidential contender in decades. Trump holds his first campaign fundraiser along with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on Thursday in New Jersey, and is putting together his allow people to make big bucks contributions to his campaign, the Republican Party, and state parties.
The building fund alone can receive donations of $100,000-plus per donor, making it a powerful part of the still-forming Trump fundraising plan.
Heading into Tuesday, she had the backing of 2,240 delegates, including 524 so-called superdelegates who can change their allegiance at any time before the party’s convention in July.
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Collins expects Trump’s message to resonate in states like his and “traditional rust belt areas” such as Pennsylvania and OH, where many working-class voters usually don’t support Republicans. Ted Cruz in the presidential race, is now supporting Trump.
