The audience reacts as Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump delivers a campaign speech in Charlotte, N.C., Thursday.
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If Trump was to win all the remaining battleground states on the map, he’d still be shy of the 270 votes needed to win the White House which means he is going to have to pick off at least one of the states now leaning in Clinton’s direction in addition to running the table in those battlegrounds, he wrote. 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. On Wednesday, he overhauled his campaign management team for the second time in as many months, seeking to save his struggling White House bid. And Trump’s new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, has mentioned the goal of beefing up some of the state based operations in the key states. The Clinton campaign responded by accusing Trump of “peddling deranged conspiracy theories in a desperate attempt to change the subject” from other issues.
News reported on Thursday that Trump will spend $716,000 in OH, most of which will be split between Columbus and Cincinnati, with lesser amounts going to Dayton, Lima, Toledo and satellite stations. In order to make people comfortable enough with Trump to vote for him, the campaign will have to tell that story, too. “They appreciate he’s not a scripted politician, but there’s a recognition that words do matter”.
What’s more, Trump’s numbers dropped across several national polls during the weeks following the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in mid-June. Party loyalists have grown increasingly frustrated with Trump’s inability to stay focused on Democrat Hillary Clinton amid a series of self-created distractions. Additional spending expected to reach $900,000 is earmarked for cable, Goldstein said, citing a media buyer familiar with Trump’s plans.
This update to the map is far from a prediction that the election is over and Clinton has won.
The voiceover intones, “Donald Trump’s America is secure, terrorists and unsafe criminals kept out”.
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Trump’s spending in the Philadelphia market is “a reasonably robust buy”, said J.J. Balaban, a Democratic media consultant with the Campaign Group in Philadelphia. Analysts still consider Florida, North Carolina and OH considered genuine toss-up states, perhaps with a slight edge towards Clinton, but a string of strong polls has moved Pennsylvania seemingly out of reach for Trump, where he now trails Clinton by an average of 9 points, according to RealClearPolitics’ aggregation of polls.
