On Thursday, Trump said as president he would not allow officials in his administration to accept payment from corporations who lobby or “any entity tied to a foreign government”.
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Manafort’s resignation could be another sign that the Trump campaign is struggling.
It essentially boils down to this: Voters either get the real Donald Trump, who is an erratic and irresponsible demagogue; or they get Teleprompter Trump, who is a puppet to right-wing political strategists.
Confronted with electoral mortality, Trump has again – but in the most dramatic terms to date – done what anxious candidates have been doing for decades: He replaced his top staff.
“It takes a lot of strength to say, ‘I’m sorry, ‘ to admit – not that he was wrong, but he wished he hadn’t done it”, said Cindy Ammons, 70, a Trump supporter from Spindale, North Carolina.
London mayor Sadiq Khan has accused US Presidential candidate Donald Trump of “playing into the hands” of the terrorist group ISIS, also known as ISIL or Daesh, for his comments about western Muslims.
“What the hell do you have to lose?” he asked them, departing from his prepared remarks.
Trump’s decision to tap Stephen Bannon, a combative conservative media executive, as his new campaign chief suggested to some that he might continue the divisive rhetoric that has angered minorities and alienated large swaths of the general election electorate.
In one particularly contentious instance, Goldsmith penned an article for the Mail on Sunday headlined “Are we really going to hand the world’s greatest city to a Labour party that thinks terrorists are its friends?” illustrated with a picture of the 2007 London bombings. After being within the margin of error against Democratic challenger Hillary Clinton, both national polls and critical battleground state polls show him sliding. He also promoted Kellyanne Conway, a New Jersey native and prominent pollster, to campaign manager. Manafort, who has decades of campaign experience, had been trying to tone Trump down, to stick to message, and to avoid getting bogged down in personal attacks.
“Believe it or not, I regret it”.
This is the latest major shake-up to the Trump campaign.
Trump is spending at least $1.4 million in Florida, $1 million in Pennsylvania, about $831,000 in North Carolina and $746,000 in OH, according to Kantar Media.
Clinton’s campaign has spent more than $75 million on ads in the weeks since she effectively locked up the nomination in early June, according to Kantar Media.
The final stretch of the protracted campaign traditionally starts after Labor Day, which falls on September 5 this year.
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“August is not October, let alone November”, she said. “But that said, Trump has clearly been having significant problems in the polls and he needed to do something differently and perhaps this is the beginning of the attempt”. Last month, he invited Russian hackers to find “missing” emails from Clinton’s time as secretary of state, when she used a private email server to conduct government business, although he later described that call as sarcasm. A U.S. federal judge ruled that Clinton did not need to give sworn testimony in a lawsuit about the email issue.
