Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump began airing his first TV ad in North Carolina Friday, two months after Democrat Hillary Clinton aired her first in the state.
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While Trump did bring in a new set of advisers in the past week, it appears all but certain his comeback strategy can not benefit from the proven building blocks of winning campaigns, especially when compared with the structure Clinton has assembled. This might explain why Trump voters are only half as likely as Clinton voters (26% versus 54%) to say campaign management abilities affect their views of the candidates.
So, with all that baggage, a hashtag like #BetterPOTUSCandidates was bound to take off, with many online chiming in with suggestions of who, or what, might make better presidential candidates than Clinton or Trump. Even many Republicans are having doubts. Trump’s campaign reported raising in about $80 million, but it was unclear how much went to the campaign itself. That’s the biggest blowout I’ve voted in, but other states where I’ve voted for president – Arizona twice, California twice, Texas three times – have had margins of 21, 13, 13, 21, 23 and 16 percentage points. His comments regarding Pulse, the LGBT nightclub in Orlando, Florida, where 49 people were murdered, hurt his likability among many potential voters.
“I nearly think the last couple of weeks, he might be second-guessing this, because he even said like a week ago, ‘it’s okay if I’m not the president, ‘” one woman said.
Regardless of his previous mistakes, it appears as though Trump may be softening his stances on certain issues.
To say that both Trump and Clinton are unpopular masks the extent to which Donald Trump is despised. I have done that. And I do regret it, particularly where it may have caused personal pain. More common was absentee mail-in ballot fraud, with 491 cases.
Except for young voters, that is. While the Federal Bureau of Investigation cleared Clinton of any criminal activity in the email scandal, they did refer to her as being “extremely careless”.
“Mr. Trump scares me, scares the hell out of me”, Bratton said.
Additionally, Trump has accused Clinton of pandering to African Americans for votes, as CBS Miami reports.
“It also keeps her profile lower”, he said, “which allows the circular firing squad of the Trump campaign to continue”.
“And so the question is whether or not in – in the fall, making the case to the American people, that the outsider – which is what the American people want – they want that outsider, they want that product that Donald Trump presents, not Hillary Clinton, but they also need to know that it’s going to be a safe product”.
Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson is now drawing 10 percent of the vote, while Green Party nominee Jill Stein is backed by four percent of registered voters.
While Trump was in Louisiana, Clinton called the state’s governor during a day spent fundraising on the East Coast.
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Katrina Pierson, a spokeswoman for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, said on August 18 that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has dysphasia, a form of brain damage (video below).
