Again, no coincidence that you see Confederate flags at Trump rallies.
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In this Friday, Aug. 12, 2016, photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump takes a tour of McLanahan Corporation headquarters, a company that manufactures mineral and agricultural equipment in Hollidaysburg, Pa.
Senior Republicans in Washington and in some of the most contested states have discussed a scenario in which the party scales back its presidential focus in states that don’t feature top races for Senate.
During a speech in Pennsylvania earlier this week, Trump said the only way Hillary Clinton could beat him in the state would be to cheat.
After some charged back-and-forth between the nominee and the Khan family, who were called to the stage at the Democratic National Convention, Trump’s campaign spokeswoman made the nonsensical claim that President Obama and Clinton were probably responsible for the death of the Khans’ son, Army Captain Humayun Khan, in Iraq.
But also in the past seven days, Trump has questioned the advice of senior aides, threatened to stop raising money for the party, dismissed the usefulness of get-out-the-vote efforts and defended his decision not to run any television ads even as his opponents fill the airwaves with spots backing Clinton in several contested states.
Republicans have more to worry about, however, than just getting Trump under control.
“It’s very common to have people at the polls”, said Rick Hasen, an election law expert and professor at the University of California at Irvine’s School of Law.
A spokeswoman for Lt. Gov. Brian Calley, another potential gubernatorial candidate who has endorsed Trump, said he would not comment on Trump’s “day-to-day activities”. Justin Amash, Bill Huizenga and Fred Upton have reservations.
“In Wisconsin, Trump’s negatives are deeper and fresher”, said Republican pollster Ed Goeas.
Huizenga, of Holland, is withholding an endorsement but could still vote for Trump.
This, to some experts, means that the certainty with which a voter will cast his ballot for a particular candidate is more up in the air than in previous elections.
He insists that even such major events as the three expected debates between the candidates will not make much of a difference, because history shows that immediately after the conventions is when nearly all voters make up their minds.
Here’s a joke for him; let’s see if he gets it.
“It would be very unusual if any Republican, including Donald Trump, put NY in play”, said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion. “Go down to certain areas and watch and study and make sure other people don’t come in and vote five times”, Trump said. “He shoots from the hip when he speaks”, McDaniel said. “He does need to communicate – and I think he can – more effectively”. “I really believe it”, he told a rally in Altoona Friday night, per the Guardian.
There are many groups of Republicans who are aiding and abetting Hillary Clinton. On a Road to 270 that increasingly looks to be uphill climbs and dead ends for Trump in the nation¿s usual collection of battleground states, the Republican presidential nominee needs a place to reset his Electoral College map.
“We have some great people here, some great leaders here, of the Republican Party, and they’re very concerned about that, and that’s the way we could lose the state”, he said.
Trump, who previously suggested the November 8 election would be rigged for Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, said he’d “heard some stories about certain parts of the state, and we have to be very careful”.
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Democrats, for instance, already have called on retired Marine Lt. Gen. Jack Bergman, the surprise victor of the open 1st Congressional District Republican primary in northern MI, to repudiate Trump for tangling with the Gold Star family.
