“We may have reached the point of no return for Donald Trump”, said Republican strategist Alex Conant, a senior aide to Florida Sen.
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Clinton is slated to spend $17 million during the period, according to Goldstein, and the pro-Clinton super-PAC Priorities USA has committed $5 million during roughly the identical time period in Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina, Nevada, Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nebraska. Together, the campaign and the groups are slated to air $7.9 million in television advertisements in those four states over the two-week period. His first major ad buys shows him focused on more conventional battlegrounds.
Trump said America must reject the bigotry of Hillary Clinton, who sees communities of colour only as votes, not as human beings worthy of a better future.
In typical Trump fashion, the ad paints a dystopian picture of an America flooded with Syrian refugees and undocumented immigrants – many of them intent on committing crimes and reaping government services, a narrator warns. Collecting Social Security benefits, skipping the line. Terrorists and unsafe criminals: kept out. The border is secure.
“Sometimes in the heat of debate and speaking on a multitude of issues, you don’t choose the right words or you say the wrong thing”, Trump told a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is heading to Louisiana on Friday, where floods have ravaged the state.
Enter the Trump voters. He wants him to volunteer or make a “sizable donation”.
Republicans inside and outside the campaign give much of the credit for Trump’s stronger week to Kellyanne Conway, the new campaign manager.
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In 2012, then former Secretary of State Clinton suffered a concussion and blood clot that Bardack says “resolved within two months”.
In his remarks, Trump struck a new, inclusive tone and tried to appeal directly to non-white voters, shown by polls to an overwhelmingly unfavorable view of the candidate.
Clinton’s campaign has spent at least $60 million in television advertising.
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Trump’s ad buy will run until August 29, but he won’t have the airwaves all to himself. He was able to do this because of his high name identification and the megaphone he possessed. But that strategy is proving ineffective in a general election, where the electorate is far different from the almost all-white GOP primary’s electorate. Clinton’s supporters are mixed: Thirty-eight percent think life will be better, 28 percent say it will be about the same, and just 30 percent say it will be worse. You don’t have to be a sociologist to figure out that the older, white voters who are still solidly Republican won’t be around forever.
