He even acknowledged that losing might not be so bad.
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Trump’s campaign says things are moving in the right direction, a position that itself feeds the discontent among his GOP detractors. Although mid-October seems to be the consensus, some say a decision may have to come earlier than that if the RNC actually wants to use the extra cash to make a difference in other races. It’s true of every Republican presidential nominee.
They call the NY real estate mogul a threat to the party and to the nation.
The frustration with those who want him to win desperately want him to get back on message, is that he has managed to overshadow what they see as Hillary Clinton’s real vulnerabilities, the stories of the e-mails this week.
The Journal urged Trump’s backers to push the candidate to conduct himself with a more presidential demeanor and begin running a more disciplined campaign. They want party leaders to acknowledge that backing his White House bid is a waste of time and money. “This is the legacy of Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans, who stand behind Trump in refusing their constitutional duties for a bigot who is clearly unfit for office”, Reid said. He also insisted on a plain falsehood, that President Barack Obama “founded” the Islamic State group, multiple times.
Fiorina, who was largely seen as an unlikely candidate for the GOP nomination when she announced her candidacy previous year, surprised many commentators with a strong run. Six GOP senators up for re-election this cycle hail from swing states that President Obama won in 2012 – Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Florida, Illinois and New Hampshire. The officials weren’t authorized to comment publicly and requested anonymity.
He said Clinton’s email scandal wouldn’t top his list of issues, but pointed to issues with the Clinton Foundation during her tenure as secretary of state as “a major sort of ethical blind spot”.
Trump’s response, as transcribed by TPM:We are gonna have tremendous turnout from the evangelicals, from the miners, from the people that make our steel, from people that are getting killed by trade deals, from people that have been just decimated, from the military who are with Trump 100 percent.
The RNC has been scrambling internally to contend with the almost daily issues with Trump’s stump speech comments.
But this year, Clinton is winning toss-up states and appears competitive in a couple of deep red states while Trump hasn’t demonstrated any serious threat to Clinton in traditionally Democratic states.
Jones ruled out casting a vote for the Democratic party’s nominee.
Donald Trump’s plans to hold a rally in CT this weekend will rev up the campaign season in CT, sharpening the state’s focus on the race for the White House.
“We, meaning we Republicans, have 24 members up”, he said.
Michael McLanahan stepped up to the microphone in front of about 3,000 Trump supporters in the Blair County Convention Center and made a plea to vote for the Republican nominee.
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The Clinton-Trump battle for the White House began in earnest in CT right after the parties held their conventions in Cleveland and Philadelphia last month. The Clinton campaign said it was evidence of “more troubling connections between Donald Trump’s team and pro-Kremlin elements in Ukraine”.
