Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus introduced Donald Trump at a Friday afternoon rally, a show of unity with the GOP nominee as he struggles in the polls.
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Former GOP congressman Chris Shays wrote an op-ed for CNN titled “Why I’m Voting for Hillary Clinton”, detailing his aversion to Trump and why he can not, in good conscience, support the GOP nominee despite years of loyalty to his party.
But he tweeted early Friday that he was being sarcastic and reiterated that at a rally Friday in Erie, Pennsylvania.
So now even the supremely confident Trump is wondering what he has to do to turn things around.
W ednesday August 10 marked 100 days since Donald J. Trump became the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee for president.
Veteran New Hampshire Republican Tom Rath, an RNC Committeeman who has been through decades of presidential politics in the Granite State, says the Trump ground game in that important swing state is minimal. After the security-official letter went public, he said those officials “are the ones the American people should look to for answers on why the world is a mess, and we thank them for coming forward so everyone in the country knows who deserves the blame for making the world such a unsafe place”.
But Trump is polling worse among black voters than nearly every single Republican presidential nominee since 1948 in polls taken between the party conventions and Election Day. You read that correctly: He’s trailing Hillary Clinton, Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Party nominee Jill Stein. Priebus told Trump that internal GOP polling suggested he was on track to lose the election. She is the sixth out of 54 Senate Republicans to announce that she will not be voting for Mr. Trump. Asked by CNBC how he planned to reverse the advantage that Clinton has opened over him, Trump said he simply planned to do “the same thing I’m doing right now”.
The Wall Street Journal notes that Clinton is aiming at Trump’s temperament while Trump is questioning Clinton’s honesty. “At the end, it’s either going to work or I’m going to, you know, I’m going to have a very, very nice long vacation”.
The White House declined to comment on Trump’s accusation.
One of Trump’s interesting quirks is that he doesn’t use a computer, even though he’s obsessed with reading news about himself.
A Marquette Law School poll shows Clinton up 15 points with likely voters.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign says the Democratic nominee and her husband paid a federal tax rate of 34.2 percent and donated 9.8 percent of their income to charity past year. What is hard, though, is getting skeptical Republicans like Whitman and reluctant “Bernie-or-Bust” voters to agree on the Clinton campaign’s relevance to their interests over third-party options that are trying desperately to curry their favor. “I’m putting up money from my own campaign but I’m raising a lot of money for the Republican Party”.
Still, LeVell said that Trump’s business record and his ability to grow jobs will resonate in the Black community and that his unique message of economic empowerment will start picking up more momentum after the convention. “In fact he gets the – in sports, they have awards”.
He adds that it should be a priority of Trump’s to constantly bring up the possibility of an upcoming rigged election in order to “protect” the integrity of the process.
Straying from his trademark bravado, Donald Trump acknowledged Thursday that his presidential campaign is facing challenges and could ultimately fall short – a rare expression of humility by the Republican presidential nominee.
“If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks”, Trump said, referring to appointments to the US Supreme Court.
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“I mean, if he’s a member of the Muslim Brotherhood or supporting the ISIS-type of attitude against America, there’s no reason for Donald Trump to have to honor this man”.
