The lack of appeal to America’s diversifying electorate is showing up over and over in the polls. It’s already at risk after a deadlocked Supreme Court decision in June.
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According to Politico, Trump’s camp requested the meeting, and RNC officials are viewing this as a good sign, perhaps that the campaign realizes it is struggling. There was a letter this week by former foreign policy experts in the Republican Party. They spoke to the media on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to describe publicly those private discussions.
And, with roughly three months until Election Day, there is still time for Trump to turn his campaign around.
Hats off to those 50 Republican Party civil servants who have turned their backs on their party’s duly elected presidential nominee.
Trump in the interview issued a threat to stop fundraising for the Republican Party, amid a report that party officials could shirt resources to focus on down-ballot Republicans.
Trump blamed CNN for reporting “so seriously” that he had said Obama and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton are the extremist group’s founder and most valuable players.
The letter cited various actions by Trump that the signers said have “alienated millions of voters of all parties”.
Even while working to restore confidence in his campaign, Trump appeared to court controversy anew when he said late Thursday that he was open to trying Americans suspected of terrorism at the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba. Democrats begin a presidential election with a built-in Electoral College advantage – they reliably win states which total around 240 of the 270 electoral votes necessary to win. “I do”, Trump said. After spending $400 million in the 2012 election, they are scaling back their direct political activity by committing $42 million and supporting six Senate candidates and a few House and gubernatorial races. The state’s large Mormon population has voiced serious skepticism about Trump, though the state’s GOP governor has endorsed him.
Trump visiting CT, a heavily Democratic state, raised eyebrows among many Republicans.
For the GOP to retain control of the Senate without winning the White House is a tall order in a year where many of those races are taking place in presidential swing states and would depend on a sizable number of split-ticket votes.
When asked about Trump’s recent comments calling President Obama the “founder” of ISIS”, for example, McConnell said: “I’m hoping that we can make this election about Hillary Clinton.
The mistakes do keep coming. He repeated that claim Thursday, but in a tweet Friday, referred to it as sarcasm.
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Trump fired back at Romney saying he “understand losers, you can make a lot of money with losers”, adding that Romney’s 2012 presidential run was a failure because the former MA governor “choked like a dog, he’s a choker”.
