In his remarks, Trump struck a new, inclusive tone and tried to appeal directly to non-white voters, shown by polls to an overwhelmingly unfavorable view of the candidate. “They should stick with Trump”.
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President Obama won Nevada in 2008 and 2012, but many election analysts put the state in the toss-up column this year. He used the most recent ABC News/Washington Post poll of registered voters that had Mrs. Clinton beating Mr. Trump in a nationwide two-way race, 50 percent to 42 percent. The margin of error is 4.4 percentage points.
“The more competitive you can make the presidential race, the more it’s going to help down-ballot races”, said Ian Prior, spokesman for outside groups linked to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, which have already spent almost $30 million on Senate races with another $40 million reserved for the fall. Even with the support of white men, the Republican Party has lost the last two presidential elections.
The congressman stated earlier he thought the election was “leaning Hillary” now but Democrats still had a lot of work to do. Burr, meanwhile, has $6 million in TV ad time reserved, according to a source tracking the buys. It was the basis that Donald Trump built his campaign upon.
“We absolutely expect with this change for Donald Trump and the campaign as a whole to double down on more hateful, divisive rhetoric, more conspiracy theories, more wild accusations”, Robby Mook told reporters.
“Donald Trump doesn’t need a tax cut”.
Ultimately, she said, that will run in the favor of Trump. With Hillary Clinton, of course.
Trump on Wednesday announced a staff overhaul at his campaign’s highest levels, the second shake-up in the past two months. Yet, the RNC has faced concerns from some Republicans over whether its get-out-the-vote efforts will be up to par by Election Day.
In recent national polling, Clinton leads head-to-head match-ups against Trump, with the Democrat holding 47.2 percent support compared to 41.2 percent for the NY businessman, according to averages compiled by RealClear Politics.
“I think it helps us to be a little bit behind, and we are”, Conway said on CNN Thursday morning.
Critics warned that Bannon, a former Goldman Sachs banker, was unlikely to make the populist candidate, who has upended the Republican establishment, any more palatable to moderate voters or any less controversial. A leading advocate of such a pivot, Paul Manafort, remains Mr Trump’s campaign chairman, but his clout appears diminished by the recruitment of Mr Bannon and a new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, a Republican pollster who has worked for Mike Pence, Mr Trump’s running-mate, and Newt Gingrich, the former Speaker of the House of Representatives.
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Yet RNC officials expressed support for the move.
