Democrats have expressed concerns about Trump receiving sensitive information, but Trump says Hillary Clinton is the one who “can’t keep anything private”. “Trump is not close enough in the swing states to target them and make a difference right now”.
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Benghazi attack survivor Kris Paronto said Trump’s call for increased vetting was “necessary”, adding “terrorists utilize our strengths, compassion and empathy against us”.
Clinton, by contrast, urges people at her rallies to register to vote, pointing them to clipboard-carrying volunteers who have forms to dispense and details about when, where and how to cast ballots. The aim is to excite dormant Texas Democratic voters into volunteering for the first time in a generation, even if it is out of distaste for Trump.
And late Tuesday, a release came in from the Great America PAC, which describes itself as “the leading independent committee supporting Donald J. Trump for president”.
In a Fox News poll released earlier this month, 61% of registered voters believe Clinton is not honest and trustworthy, while 62% believe the same about Trump.
Mr Bannon, who will take leave from his position as CEO of the conservative site Breitbart News to help the Trump campaign, played host to Nigel Farage at a gathering of the most conservative faction of the Republican Party outside Washington DC past year.
While building Trump’s political team into a functioning campaign, Manafort was brought on to try to steady Trump and turn him into a more polished, disciplined candidate. “I don’t need a tax cut”.
She said, “It’s time for the wealthiest Americans, whoever you are, as well as corporations and Wall Street to pay your fair share in taxes”.
“That’s what I’m going to continue to do for the next 83 days”. And he says President Obama has helped people like him and neighborhoods like his.
“I think she’s awesome, I hope she can break the glass ceiling”.
“I don’t care if Donald Duck is running the campaign”, said Henry Barbour, a Republican National committeeman from Mississippi.
“We could build 280 new elementary schools”, Mrs. Clinton said.
Advisers to Donald Trump are encouraging the GOP candidate to press for more surveillance and more information-sharing with local police departments to fight terror threats if he’s elected president.
The elevation of Kellyanne Conway, a respected Republican pollster, to campaign manager, spoke to Trump’s desire for more people around him who he trusts at a time when his campaign is flailing.
“I’m asking for the vote of every African-American citizen struggling in our country today who wants a different and much better future”, Trump said in Washington County, which has a black population of 1.2 percent, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
The Breitbart organization has been known to defend white supremacists, he alleged.
Two pretty well plugged-in folks said they didn’t know of any Trump field offices in the Philadelphia suburbs, though there are apparently plans to reopen an office in Conshohocken that was active in the spring.
“They’ve also repeatedly used anti-LGBT slurs in their coverage”.
A motorcade carrying Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump leaves the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in Lower Manhattan, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016, in NY, after Trump received a classified security briefing there.
“So, it’s unfortunately not surprising to see this happen, coming from Trump after weeks of stories about his need to pivot to a more serious campaign”.
The Republican Party opened its national convention, kicking off a four-day political jamboree that will anoint billionaire Donald Trump as its presidential nominee.
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NBC’s Alex Seitz-Wald: “For Democrats, Donald Trump’s decision to put Breitbart News chief Steve Bannon – a man they dismiss as a conspiracy theorist – in charge of his campaign is vindication of a conspiracy theory of their own”.
