“This should not be a hard decision, as Donald Trump’s chances of being elected president are evaporating by the day”, the letter said. Trump traveled to ME last week, a state that has also been blue since 1992.
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But many Republicans wonder what Trump is waiting for, since Clinton has used time and money to define herself, and more importantly, Trump, without much of a retort.
In an interview with Fox News Channel’s The O’Reilly Factor Thursday night, Trump was asked about a Time report that the RNC was considering shifting focus to congressional races following a hard couple of weeks for the Republican nominee.
Donald Trump repeatedly accused President Barack Obama of founding the Islamic State group on Thursday, refusing to take back a patently false allegation even when questioned about the logic of his position.
On Monday, 50 top Republican national security officials issued a scathing letter denouncing Trump’s candidacy and calling him a “risk” to America’s national security.
No offices were listed in Hamilton County or Cleveland’s Cuyahoga County, but Friday’s list was not an exhaustive one, Trump’s OH campaign officials said. Trump also said “we need help in OH”, the state where he held his Republican National Convention last month.
“That’s what normal candidates do”, he went on.
Those dust-ups reinforced concerns among Trump supporters that a lack of discipline could imperil his chances. He has spent the past three weeks creating news story after news story with decidedly off-message comments – the biggest of which was going after Khizr and Ghazala Khan, Gold Star parents who attacked Trump at the Democratic convention.
“I’m the one that’s funding, I’m the one that’s raising the money and other people are getting to use the money that I raised”, he said.
To that end, Clinton’s campaign on Friday intensified pressure on Trump to release his tax returns, while disclosing her 2015 filings and a decade of returns from her running mate. There are ongoing disagreements both in terms of messaging from the communications side and allocating resources on the political side, the source said.
“The campaign has yet to find or appoint key local leaders or open a campaign office in the county and isn’t yet sure which Hamilton County Republican party’s central committee members are allied with the Republican presidential nominee”, reported the Enquirer. After her unsuccessful 2010 California Senate bid, she served as vice-chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee and later the chair of the American Conservative Union Foundation.
Democrats have been critical of Trump’s slow-to-organize ground game in the all-important swing state of Ohio. Weinstein has said he plans to vote for Clinton. Doug Ericksen, R-Ferndale and Don Benton, R-Vancouver, signed on as co-chairs of the Trump campaign before Washington’s May “beauty contest” primary.
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The draft letter says “recent Fox News, Marist College and NBC News/Wall Street Journal national polls show Trump trailing Clinton by 9 to 14 percentage points, margins that would make for the largest general election blowout since 1984 if they held”. He told a gathering of evangelical ministers Thursday he’s “having a tremendous problem in Utah”.
