Since his selection as Donald Trump’s running mate, Mike Pence has tried to stay focused on winning over conservatives skeptical of the NY billionaire.
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It’s hard to imagine how could look any worse for Donald Trump and the Republican Party.
Trump raised questions this week when he repeatedly claimed to have witnessed video shot in Tehran of the recent $400 million cash transfer from the USA government. Whitman, the CEO of Hewlett-Packard and the GOP gubernatorial nominee in California in 2010, said she would also raise money for Clinton. “It doesn’t help him with skeptical Republicans”, Galdieri said.
The average of recent polls compiled by RealClear Politics shows Clinton with a 5.8 percentage point lead nationwide. “I made the decision that I wouldn’t be able to look at my grandkids if I voted for Trump”, said Dan Webb, a former federal prosecutor and a self-described “Republican for decades” working to win over prominent Republican business people in Chicago. His dishonesty rating – 62 percent – topped Clinton’s.
“Most candidates leave their conventions with a bit of a bump and do things that fuel that bump, that expands their base”, said Carter Wrenn, a veteran North Carolina Republican strategist. And voters find her no more honest or trustworthy than they do her opponent.
I find it shocking that The Jerusalem Post has consistently and clearly chosen not only to take sides in the U.S. presidential campaign, but to present unbalanced and unfair attacks on Donald Trump, and full, unqualified support for Hillary Clinton.
At the same time, Trump’s lukewarm support for the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation alliance drew criticism from 37 national security experts from both Democratic and Republican administrations.
According to a person close to a pro-Clinton super PAC, the outlook for the fall has not changed significantly since the conventions, and they expect Clinton’s bump in the polls and Trump’s rough patch to both level off.
“What I will say is that they (Clinton and Trump) have been told these are classified briefings and if they want to be president, they’ve got to start acting like president”. That divide created the largest lead yet recorded for Clinton in a national poll. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
He backed up those remarks at a Monday evening town hall meeting in Nevada, when the audience jeered a woman who asked how he can tolerate what she called Trump’s disrespect of American servicemen. He chided Khizr Khan’s wife, Ghazala, for standing silently as her husband delivered his speech, suggesting she hadn’t been allowed to speak.
Days later, as Republicans recoiled over criticizing a Gold Star family, Trump dug in, the dust-up serving to reinforce the fears of his Republican critics that their candidate is incapable of letting go of a grudge.
Clinton has also been embroiled in another controversy in recent weeks.
Concern about Trump has spilled into at least one congressional race.
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At roughly the same time, Pence blasted Russian Federation in a statement issued by the campaign that said “the United States government will ensure there are serious consequences” if Russian Federation is “interfering in our elections”.
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