Concerned Republicans say their worries go beyond the campaign’s decision to send its greatest resource – the candidate himself – to chase one or two electoral votes in ME, or to what they believe are unwinnable states like CT.
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Trump also slammed Clinton over her claims that as a senator from NY she helped create jobs in economically depressed Upstate areas.
The credentials allow reporters access to press-only areas of his campaign events.
And yet Trump would like the Republican National Committee to devote its limited resources to funding a get-out-the-vote operation for him inHawaii. And in the Senate, you have states like Pennsylvania where Trump was today, Mark Kirk in Illinois, Kelly Ayotte in New Hampshire. Plus, Maine awards two of its four electoral votes by congressional district, of which there are two, and Trump is very popular in one of them.
Donald Trump plans to return to Wisconsin next week and once again the state’s top Republican leaders won’t be there.
“We’ve really been given a false narrative”, Trump said of his struggles in Utah. “There is no worse feeling on a campaign than seeing your opponent hit you in a TV and you’re not responding”, said Barbour.
The crowd started chanting “lock her up” in response. “You have a point!”
It’s comments like those that Clinton has seized to try to contrast her “serious, steady leadership” with the more volatile approach she says Trump would take to running the country.
Weinstein is a veteran of Dole’s 1996 campaign. Nevertheless, it’s jolting prospect now, with roughly three months still left before the November 8 vote and weeks before the three presidential debates.
The letter adds that the party should instead, focus on protecting vulnerable candidates in elections to the Senate and the House of Representatives.
The same day, Trump acknowledged that his lack of political correctness could cost him the election if Americans reject his blunt approach.
“This man is going to win”. “What’s bothering people on the campaign is that they feel like they’re doing all the right things, but they’re losing every news cycle to Hillary and there’s nothing they can do about it”.
Recent polls have shown Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton with a double-digit lead over Trump among likely voters.
And his backers are blaming the media for the perception that all is not well. If Trump doesn’t gain any support after the first debate, they will abandon him. “There is no evidence that Trump has done that or that he has much of a ground game to begin with”.
Apparently, Trump himself will not attend the meeting, but a senior official in the campaign, Karen Giorno, will. He has stopped criticising a Muslim family of a fallen U.S. soldier.
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The letter, whose signers include former congressmen Gordon Humphrey, Mickey Edwards and Christopher Shays; Bruce Bartlett, a member of President George W. Bush’s cabinet; and former RNC staff members said that Trump’s campaign will have a “catastrophic impact” on down-ballot races.
