Some party loyalists are scrambling to try to course correct Donald Trump’s erratic presidential campaign after the nominee suffered a startling number of self-inflicted campaign wounds in just the kick-off week of the general election race.
Advertisement
Despite the obvious turmoil, Trump insisted in a tweet on Wednesday that the party and his campaign had “great unity”.
“I think we have never been this united”, Trump went on, despite the public view that he has been trapped in a political meltdown created largely by himself.
Lashing at Hillary Clinton at a rally in Pennsylvania, the republican nominee said that his Democratic rival is “the devil”.
Pushing back on reports that there is chaos in the Republican, Trump said the party was united.
“I like Paul, but these are frightful times for our country”, Trump told The Washington Post on Tuesday.
Other Republican stalwarts, while stopping short of endorsing Trump’s election foe, are shunning Trump or the party itself.
The Trump campaign had no immediate comment on the reports. Thus far, Clinton’s camp has aired $68 million in ads, compared to Trump’s $6 million, NBC News reported on Tuesday. He said the election is a binary choice and Trump is preferable to Democrat Hillary Clinton.
But on Wednesday, an unidentified Trump campaign source told MSNBC the unrest inside the campaign was “way worse than people realise”.
One official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, acknowledged that the Party Leadership can not force the NY businessman to quit.
Khizr Khan, who’s son was killed in Iraq in 2004, spoke out against the Republican nominee, saying he had “sacrificed nothing and no one”.
Voters also weighed in on the controversy surrounding Trump after he disparaged the Muslim family of a fallen US soldier.
“Secretary Clinton leads among more sub-groups than Mr. Trump, although Mr. Trump leads among those in the lowest income and education groups, those living in rural counties, self-described conservatives, and men”, the analysis said. Now Whitman says she will not only vote for Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, but also will raise money for her and her super PAC and will encourage her Republican contacts to do the same. The Make American Great Again campaign pledges to limit migration – building a wall between the U.S. and Mexico, ban Muslims from entering the country and “bomb the hell out of ISIS”. He has also proposed renegotiating trade treaties, opening up to Russian Federation, revamping NATO and has suggested Japan and South Korea should get nuclear weapons.
“As the party’s national leader, (Trump) must set his ego aside and UNIFY our party and reach out to Republicans he doesn’t agree with 100% or with Republicans that don’t agree with him 100%”.
Clinton also hit Trump for his criticism of the Khan family, who delivered a speech attacking Trump at the Democratic national convention last week.
Advertisement
Clinton is favoured among women by 23 points (57-34 per cent), blacks by 83 (87-4 per cent), Hispanics by 48 (68-20 per cent) and voters under 30 by 18 (49-31 per cent), it said.
