Trump told a crowd gathered for a Saturday evening rally in a sweltering Fairfield gym that he was making “a big play” for CT. Tim Kaine, D-Va., talks with Sasha Hurwitz during a campaign stop at the Bridge Cafe Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016, in Manchester, N.H.
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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. No matter, Donald Trump says as he promises to pursue the Democratic stronghold.
In a rare show of humility by the boastful billionaire, Donald Trump is acknowledging that his presidential campaign faces challenges and could ultimately fall short. He said the bans are in place because the campaign has to “stand up and defend ourselves” from biased reporting.
Hillary Clinton is seizing opportunities presented by a volatile presidential race to expand her base of support heading into the fall, seeking to position the Democratic Party for a sweeping victory in November.
Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, on Sunday blamed news organizations for the GOP nominee’s hard week, saying the press focused on a pair of Trump comments for days rather than doing more stories about the economic plan Trump announced.
The national news outlet recommended the Republican party “write off the nominee as hopeless” if Trump fails to act more presidential by Labor Day, in which case it said Trump should “turn the nomination over to Mike Pence”, the Republican candidate’s running mate.
Trump’s campaign meanwhile has been distracted by one controversial statement after another.
Trump went on a Twitter rant against the press, complaining that the “disgusting” media is not showing the crowd size of his rallies and is putting “false meaning into the words I say”.
The real estate tycoon returned to his message on Sunday, tweeting: “My rallies are not covered properly by the media”.
“Voters never digested his message before they were distracted by yet another misstep”, said Peter Morici, a business professor at the University of Maryland. His anti-media tweet storm topped a half-dozen posts by midafternoon. “We raised over $132 million in the last two months”. Signs were popping up across the political landscape that Trump’s year-plus flirtation with presidential politics was in danger of not advancing much further.
More than 200 current and former Republican elected and administration officials, as well as figures from the party apparatus and the conservative media, have said in recent weeks that they simply can not support Trump, citing his increasingly erratic statements, his lack of policy specifics and his recklessness on the global stage, with many of them saying they’d vote for Hillary Clinton instead.
Trump seemed particularly upset with a New York Times article that quotes unnamed associates of his as saying that in private “his mood is often sullen and erratic”. He called the report “fiction” and reiterated that he is not about to change what he sees as a winning campaign formula.
A number of people at Trump’s rally on Saturday night, held in a stifling gymnasium on a college campus, walked over to the press pen and yelled at reporters.
But even one of Trump’s top advisers, Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, conceded Sunday that the candidate needed to communicate “more effectively”.
Manafort said Trump’s point about the Second Amendment is that people who support gun rights should be concerned about Clinton’s candidacy. Manafort was peppered with questions about Trump’s eventful week and defended the candidate’s comments on the Second Amendment, sidestepped seemingly inconsistent Trump remarks about his economic plans and avoided a question about a campaign co-chairman’s remarks that refreshed the Khizr Khan Gold Star family imbroglio.
“You could have covered what he was saying, or you could try and take an aside and take the Clinton narrative and play it out”.
“As a result of this tax plan, and all of the components of the tax plan, the trade elements, the investment elements, you’re going to have a situation where jobs are going to come back to America”, Manafort told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union”.
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Pence said on “Fox News Sunday” that he remains proud to be Trump’s running mate and advised: “Stay tuned, it’s very early in this campaign. This coming Monday, you’re going to see a vision for confronting radical Islamic terrorism”.
