(AP Photo/Kathy Willens). A motorcade carrying Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump leaves the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in Lower Manhattan, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016, in NY, after Trump received a classified security briefing the.
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Facing a polling deficit against Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, Trump has tried to reset his campaign, announcing on Wednesday a shake-up of his senior campaign staff.
Trump has fallen behind Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in opinion polls nationally and in vital swing states, raising the prospect of a wipeout in the November 8 election that could hurt Republicans in congressional and state races.
“I think we’re going to sharpen the message”, Conway told CNN.
But Trump supporters largely accepted the change of tone, even if some saw it as unnecessary. Women said they would vote for Clinton over Trump by a wide margin of 49% to 30%.
This is similar to the positive views Clinton supporters have of their candidate: 69% say she would be a great (24%) or good (45%) president.
The Clinton camp has been using Trump’s words in their campaign ads to undermine his candidacy and they have hit the mark.
“This means so much to me, and I will work as hard as I can to bring new opportunity to places in our country which have not known opportunity in a very long time”, Trump said. Although the speech – which he read from a teleprompter – was well received by many Republicans, it was largely overshadowed by news of his campaign restructuring.
Eight-in-ten Trump supporters (80%) say that Clinton would continue Obama’s policies if she were to be elected, but nearly all of those who expect her to continue the current administration’s policies say this would be a bad thing (78% of all Trump supporters). Earlier Thursday, Trump moved to invest almost $5 million in battleground state advertising to address daunting challenges in the states that will make or break his White House ambitions.
“The American people are still waiting for Hillary Clinton to apologize for all of the many lies she’s told to them, and the many times she’s betrayed them”.
The Trump campaign hopes his tough talk on law enforcement and his aggressive pro-police rhetoric will appeal to disaffected voters anxious about the direction of the country.
In comparing the Georgia and Florida polls, Towery said, “What makes the two polls so similar is the fact that Mr. Trump receives about 10% less support from Republican respondents than does Secretary Clinton from Democrats who were polled in both states”.
About half of Clinton’s supporters (51%) say there is at least some chance she would make major mistakes as president, while 48% think that there is hardly any chance.
Nevada is one of the states to watch in the 2016 election; it is considered a tossup, as it voted for George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004 but Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012.
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Trump further clarified his comments during a local news station interview in North Carolina.
