Donald Trump on policy is something less than a North Star, but that has its advantages if he jettisons one of his least attractive positions.
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But there remained significant doubts that the campaign makeover – as well as Trump’s ability to stay focused and avoid committing further self-inflicted wounds – would hold long enough to close the gap with Clinton seen in many polls of voters nationwide and in battleground states.
Trump shook up his campaign this past week, installing a new chief executive, Stephen Bannon – former head of conservative news site Breitbart News.
Republican Party chairman Reince Priebus (ryns PREE’-bus) said Sunday that “Donald Trump has been disciplined and mature”.
When asked if Trump will continue to support the forced deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants living in the USA, the GOP nominee’s new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, told CNN: “To be determined”.
Trump also announced his first ad buys of the campaign – more evidence of an acceptance of the traditional campaign elements most experts believe he will need in order to have a shot at winning.
Conway also said that as a pollster, she knows what voters really care about is their own tax rates, and she claimed Trump offers a better plan on that than Democrat Hillary Clinton.
The Republican presidential candidate plans to speak about his immigration plans this week. He has accused Mexico of sending rapists and criminals across the border, and has vowed to deport all of the estimated 11 million people living in the USA illegally. “Donald Trump is back in Hillary Clinton’s head”, Conway said.
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign will make their final ad reservations for the fall this week, according to an aide, reserving – in total – $80 millions in ads through Election Day in eight states. “We’re not seeing a pivot”.
Trump, meanwhile, slammed the Clinton Foundation in a Facebook post on Monday morning.
Trump is “challenging the Democratic Party” on its record for minority communities, Conway said on ABC’s “This Week With George Stephanopoulos”, picking up on a theme Trump used at rallies on Friday and Saturday.
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The poll suggests Mrs. Clinton’s support is slowly growing stronger in OH, a traditional swing state that is a key part of Mr. Trump’s “Rust Belt” strategy, as he courts blue-collar workers who feel they have been ill-served by global trade deals.
