In comparison, Democrats were more satisfied with Hillary Clinton as their nominee, with 56 per cent saying they were pleased while 42 per cent wish someone else were nominated.
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“There are real questions being raised about whether Donald Trump himself is just a puppet for the Kremlin in this race”, Mook said.
Last month Trump brought on some new consultants and firms, July reports to the Federal Election Commission show. Trump put out his first ads days ago, spending $5 million to air them in Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and North Carolina.
Mook asserted that Trump’s actions indicated a cozy relationship with Russian Federation, noting Trump’s favorable comments about Putin and the campaign’s successful push to soften language in the Republican Party platform that would’ve mandated providing weapons to Ukraine.
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.
Last week, former Trump Campaign Chair Paul Manafort resigned amid growing revelations about his deep financial ties to former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who was backed by Putin.
Mr Trump’s campaign spending remains remarkably low at this point compared to previous campaigns, including those of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney in 2012.
Trump has few loyal staffers devoted to his election working in the tightly contested states that will decide the election; little early investment in the data operation needed to help ensure his supporters vote; and no significant effort to take advantage of early voting, which begins next month in some states.
Trump has also been rebuked by opponents for his proposal to impose a temporary “total and complete shutdown” of Muslims seeking to enter the country, later rolled back to focus on countries with “a proven history of terrorism”.
Iowa’s voters had similar concerns about the candidates as their OH brethren with Clinton’s emails and Trump’s suitability for the president the top thing each candidate would need to fix if he or she wanted to receive more support.
They also show Mr Trump is still paying the firm of sacked campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. That’s about the same amount it had paid him each month while he was running the campaign.
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