The former Fox News chief is a legend of television producing and Republican political campaigning.
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“There are real questions being raised about whether Donald Trump himself is just a puppet for the Kremlin in this race”, Mook said.
The Democratic National Committee, Clinton and the super PAC backing Clinton, Priorities USA, raised a total of $94.5 million last month. Brad Parscale, the president, is the campaign’s director of digital marketing.
Stephanopoulos seemed bemused. “You’re saying Donald Trump is a puppet for the Kremlin?”
Millions more went to air travel.
Yet the campaign’s payroll remained thin, and there did not appear to be much new in the way of office leases across the country, including in OH and other crucial states.
Conway, whose background is as a pollster, said the campaign wants to get away from a focus on Trump’s personality and onto the Obama administration’s record, and Clinton as a continuation of what it describes as unpopular policies such as the Obama’s health care law. “And I think he’s going to get this thing back on track”, Reince Priebus, the Republican National Committee chairman, said Sunday. He’s holding a campaign rally in Jackson, Miss., on Wednesday.
“The fact is that Hillary Clinton could not stand up to a cheating husband, so how in the world would she stand up to North Korea and some of our other enemies around the globe?”
Donald Trump has picked up his fundraising game but not enough to catch up to challenger Hillary Clinton.
Spending was more lopsided: $34.5 million by Clinton, $7.8 million by Trump.
Last week Trump announced a reshuffle of his campaign team. The Trump campaign spent $18.5 million in July, less than half the $38.2 million spent by the Clinton campaign.
Independent candidate Evan McMullin, who declared his candidacy in August, didn’t have a campaign finance report to release from July. Nearly $26 million of her monthly expenses went to produce and air a blizzard of television and online commercials – part of what has been a $120 million ad bombardment by her campaign.
The candidates also raise money for their parties, enabling them to ask for contributions far higher than the $2,700-per-donor limit to the campaigns.
“Those comments are for all Americans”, Conway insisted.
Trump’s lack of discipline, which was part of his attractiveness to the Republican base during the primaries, was highlighted this past week once again with the second revamping of his top campaign staff, with GOP strategist Kellyanne Conway taking over as campaign manager for the scandal-plagued Paul Manafort and the president of ultraconservative Breitbart News, Steve Bannon, coming on board as CEO. Questioned on whether Trump still intends to deploy a “deportation force” to carry that out, Conway said Sunday: “To be determined”.
Two weeks after campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was ousted, the Trump campaign sent his firm, Green Monster Consulting, another $20,000 cheque. That’s about the same amount it had paid him each month while he was running the campaign.
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Lewandowski, a CNN contributor, called his former boss “a raw talent”.
