On Tuesday, he gave a sharp and focused speech on law and order, coupled with an appeal to black voters.
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With the departure of the second senior campaign official in as many months, Donald Trump’s bid for president is heading further into uncharted territory. The inaugural accuses Clinton of rigging the election and hammers her on her position on immigration.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, said ahead of Trump’s visit that he wouldn’t be involved, adding that Trump is welcome, “but not for a photo-op”. “What the hell do you have to lose?”
Clinton’s campaign, meanwhile, brushed off the speech off as just words he read from a teleprompter.
But others in the state have complained that President Barack Obama, now on holiday in the exclusive New England resort of Martha’s Vineyard, has not visited. The new campaign leadership, Lewandowski said, would allow Trump to be more “authentic”. “Paul is a true professional and I wish him the greatest success”, Trump said.
Ukrainian journalist and member of parliament Serhiy Leshchenko points to a monitor displaying a page of an accounting book of the party of former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych with the signings of payments to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Details of the payments described in the ledger were first reported by The New York Times. The Aug. 14 to 18 online poll showed that Clinton was supported by 42 percent of Americans who are expected to vote, compared with 34 percent for Trump. Some 23 percent would not side with either candidate.
On Wednesday, the Trump campaign had announced a reshuffling, hiring Breitbart News’ Stephen K. Bannon for the chief executive role and Kellyanne Conway as campaign manager.
Manafort left almost a week after a New York Times report about tumult within the Republican presidential nominee’s campaign helped precipitate a leadership shake-up.
Manafort, a veteran strategist who had managed Republican nominating conventions in the past, was hired by the campaign in late March, as Trump was facing a protracted delegate slog in his effort to capture the Republican nomination. The report said Manafort and Rick Gates, his deputy in his consulting work and on the Trump campaign, did not register as foreign agents, a requirement for those lobbying on behalf of foreign leaders or parties.
Manafort, who only took control of Trump’s campaign after former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was sacked in June, did not appear concerned by this week’s appointments. He said the challenge for the GOP is to expand that base into more people who will be reliable and show up at the polls. “Particularly, where it may have caused personal pain”.
On Friday, he also began airing his first television advertisement since becoming the Republican candidate, buying airtime in the crucial states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Florida, where Clinton has already spent of millions in television advertising.
In typical Trump fashion, the ad paints a dystopian picture of an America flooded with Syrian refugees and undocumented immigrants – many of them intent on committing crimes and reaping government services, a narrator warns. And as, traditionally speaking, polling trends tend to lock in after Labor Day, the Trump campaign only has about two weeks at the outside to flip the script.
“I’ve known him since we were in college, he’s a first-class person, he’s an wonderful individual and he has been the lead architect in trying to seamlessly put together the institutional side of this campaign”, Barrack said in an interview.
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A US federal judge ruled that Clinton did not need to give sworn testimony in a lawsuit about the email issue.
