Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds a chart as he speaks to the National Association of Home Builders, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2016, in Miami Beach, Fla. That’s out of context.
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The question remains whether Trump can reverse this image as the clock ticks toward the November elections, when Americans will cast their ballots for the next US president. It’s an instinct that Trump’s opponents say a president can’t possess. Some Republicans seem to have the same concern.
The survey found Clinton leading her GOP rival in NY by 14 percentage points, with minor-party candidates included.
“Based on what we know from the Trump campaign, he wants America to work for him and his friends, at the expense of everyone else”, she said, at a manufacturing company.
Now, it’s one used by potential leaders of the free world.
Then an about-face Friday.
Trump first made the unfounded claim on Wednesday and repeated it through the week.
Or was he being sarcastic about the sarcasm?
In October 1996 the RNC moved money from the presidential race to congressional candidates after Republican nominee Bob Dole fell far behind Democratic President Bill Clinton in opinion polls. Equally worrying for some was the fact that he again would not take responsibility for his words.
Ryan Williams, a Republican strategist who advised Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign, said there’s a common-sense playbook for dealing with political slip-ups: “Stop the bleeding and put it behind you by apologizing”.
Surveys in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and OH found that 90 per cent of Democrats said they meant to support Clinton, while closer to 80 per cent of Republicans meant to support Trump.
However, recent polls have shown Mr Trump’s numbers sagging badly in those battleground states, notably hurt by his critical comments about the Muslim parents of a fallen USA soldier, and what some saw as his suggestion that “Second Amendment people” – gun lovers – take their dislike for Mrs Clinton into their own hands. She’s hammered him for avoiding accountability for his actions.
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Hillary and Bill Clinton earned $10.6 million previous year, according to a tax filing released by her campaign that sought to pressure presidential rival Donald Trump to disclose his tax returns.
Trump, a NY businessman, and his lawyers have cited an audit by the Internal Revenue Service as a reason he has refused to release his returns.
It is customary for U.S. presidential candidates to make their tax returns public, although they are not required by law to do so.
Clinton’s running mate, US Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, along with his wife, Anne Holton, paid a federal effective tax rate of 20.3 per cent in 2015, the campaign said.
Trump worked to profit on the fuss over his Islamic State remark.
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Trump’s senior communications adviser Jason Miller said the media critiques are necessary. “The more places you can make them play defence, the better off we are”.
