Donald Trump broke new ground in Charlotte Thursday night, expressing “regret” for some of what he has said during the campaign.
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“Sometimes in the heat of the debate and speaking on a multitude of issues, you don’t choose the right words or you say the wrong thing”, Mr Trump said in his speech. I have done that. “And believe it or not, I regret it, particularly where it may have caused personal pain”.
He added that, “Too much is at stake for us to be consumed with these issues”. “One thing I can promise you is this: I will always tell you the truth”, he said.
The remarks come at his first campaign rally since he made major changes to his campaign leadership earlier in the week, which included installing a new campaign manager.
Weary Republican leaders are accepting Donald Trump’s latest staff shake-up, hopeful that a new leadership team can reverse the NY businessman’s struggles even as some worry it’s too little too late.
“The result for them will be unbelievable”, he said. “You have nothing to lose”, Trump said.
The remarks came as Trump was trying to rescue a campaign that has struggled since the Democratic and Republican nominating conventions from a series of self-created distractions.
Asked in May whether he regretted denigrating Arizona Sen.
His trip to Charlotte, North Carolina – a Southern swing state – followed his announcement on Wednesday of a reshuffle of his campaign, with opinion polls showing him falling behind Clinton in decisive states, including North Carolina.
“I like not to regret anything”, Trump told radio host Don Imus almost a year later.
“Part of the reason I like him is he does say things that are not scripted”. And what I said, frankly, is what I said.
“I think he’s evolving”, she said. The first makes the most sense: The closer you get to the election, the more people begin to pay attention and start cementing their decision for November. In this journey, I will never lie to you.
Speaking Thursday, Trump did not specify what he regretted and did not directly apologize to anyone.
He has been damaged by a series of gaffes over the past month, clashing publicly with the parents of a Muslim-American soldier killed in Iraq, proclaiming President Barack Obama to be the “founder” of the Islamic State militant group, urging Russian cyber-spies to hack U.S. government computers to find Clinton’s deleted emails from her time as secretary of state and suggesting that only “second amendment” gun-rights activists can stop Clinton’s path to the White House and her appointment of judges to the USA supreme court. “Voters know if you’re comfortable in your own skin”. “But no, I don’t regret anything”.
Trump’s remarks in North Carolina last night contained softer language at times in a speech punctuated with uncharacteristic rhetorical flourishes for the NY billionaire. Ted Cruz’s wife, Heidi, was “a mistake”.
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Just 15 per cent say Trump would make an “average” president, the poll said.
