Despite what critics say, Eric Trump said he is proud of his father’s plan for the presidency. Weary Republican leaders hope the new leadership team can reverse the NY businessman’s struggles even as some worry it’s too little too late. He also shook up his campaign in recent days, tapping a combative conservative media executive, Stephen Bannon, to serve as CEO of the campaign. Republican pollster Kellyanne Conway filled the campaign manager position left vacant since Trump fired his former campaign chief nearly two months ago.
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“I think we’re going to sharpen the message”, Conway told CNN. On coming down with both feet on rioters, looters, arsonists and Black-Lives-Matter haters who call cops “pigs”, America is all in with Donald Trump. “We’ve got to get away from this content-free campaign and on to the substance”, she said.
“I’ve travelled all across this country laying out my bold and modern agenda for change”, he said.
If it at times seems jarring – even a little boring – it was because although he has given scripted speeches before, they were usually when discussing particular policy issues like the economy in a hotel ballroom, but not when addressing a rally, where his style had usually been full-throated.
The Democratic presidential nominee was meeting with law enforcement leaders in New York City, joining with chiefs of police days after Republican Donald Trump accused her of being “against the police”. Should he lose, he prefers to go down to defeat as Donald Trump, and not as some synthetic creation of campaign consultants.
Even more odd was the fact that they were seen on the yacht of Hollywood producer David Geffen, a prominent donor to Democratic politicians – including to Trump’s opponent, Hillary Clinton.
Trump then said “I think I will be called Mr. Brexit”.
Recently Trump made major changes in the leadership of his campaign, and many thought he would continue to make the same kind of off-the-cuff remarks that many found distasteful.
Trump frequently boasts that his rival is spending heavily while he’s put nothing into advertising, banking so far on free wall-to-wall media coverage to carry his message.
Pence showed the video clip after saying Americans are sick of the “pay-to-play” politics he accuses Clinton of engaging in as secretary of state.
In a statement, the collective said the hope is that Trump “is never installed in the most powerful political and military position in the world”.
But these amounts pale in comparison to the $31 million the pro-Clinton super PAC Priorities USA has spent on air since mid-June.
Rarely do presidential campaigns undergo such a level of tumult at such a stage of the general election. The developments come less than three months before Election Day, and roughly six weeks before early voting begins. He has dropped precipitously in battleground states to the point that Clinton is now leading in every competitive state, including in usually right-leaning Georgia.
Yet Trump has struggled badly in recent weeks to offer voters a consistent message, overshadowing formal policy speeches with a steady stream of self-created controversies, including a public feud with an American Muslim family whose son was killed while serving in the US military in Iraq. But he said in the column the central question in 2016 is whether Muslim Americans are “an equal and welcome member of the American Constituency?”
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Two months later, Trump was asked by WAVY-TV if he would like to apologize to McCain.
