Donald Trump said Thursday that he was sorry for causing “personal pain” with the inflammatory comments that he has become known for during his fourteen months on the campaign trail.
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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”, Trump said. “I have done that”. And I do regret it, particularly where it may have caused personal pain. The “Two Americas” spot is the Republican’s nominee’s first television ad since receiving the nomination.
“What do you have to lose by trying something new?” he asked.
With his campaign mired in plummeting polls, Donald Trump overhauled his campaign this week by bringing in Breitbart News’ Stephen Bannon and promoting Conway. At the same time, party leaders have conceded they may divert resources away from the presidential contest in favor of vulnerable Senate and House candidates if things don’t improve. “I do regret it”.
Just 27% of registered voters say that Trump would make a good or great president, while about twice as many (55%) say he would be either poor or bad (with 43% saying he would make a “terrible” president).
She gets her news from Fox News but also conservative websites and Facebook pages where Clinton’s name is usually preceded by “lying” or “crooked”.
“I’m a huge Trump supporter”, Anantha said. And he began his speech with a message to the people of Louisiana, a state that has been hit with historic flooding in recent days.
Confidence in either US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump or his Democratic counterpart Hillary Clinton being a good president continues to remain low, as was the case earlier this year, according to a poll.
And Gramley says she sees a great deal more enthusiasm for Trump around the state.
After touring a job training program at John Marshall High School in Cleveland, Clinton described how her plan would affect voters in OH, a critical swing state where she holds a five-point edge over Trump, according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll. Fifty-five percent of Republican and Republican-leaning voters said in 2014 that free trade agreements have been good for the USA; 51 percent said the same in the month before Trump launched his candidacy in 2015 and made attacks on existing free trade deals a cornerstone of his campaign.
“We learned tonight that his speechwriter and teleprompter knows he has much for which he should apologize”, she added.
But Trump supporters largely accepted the change of tone, even if some saw it as unnecessary.
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Even some Republicans who support Trump’s promise to slash the tax rate on corporate profits to 15 percent, from the current 35 percent, have criticized the pass-through provision. Still, only about a third (31%) said she would be a “good or great president”, while 22%said would be average and 45% think she would be a poor (12%) or awful (33%) president, Pew said.
