[CHARLOTTE, North Carolina] Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump apologised on Thursday for past remarks that “may have caused personal pain” as he sought to refocus his message in the face of falling opinion poll numbers in his first speech since shaking up his campaign team this week.
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Trump concluded, “Too much is at stake for us to be consumed with these issues”.
Trump also made a major appeal to the African-American voters, telling them that they have nothing to lose by choosing him, “We are going to reject bigotry and I will tell you the bigotry of Hillary Clinton is fantastic, she sees communities of color only as votes and not as human beings.She’s been there forever, and look at where you are”.
The remarks came as Trump makes significant changes to a campaign that has struggled since the Democratic and Republican nominating conventions from self-created distractions. “I’ve never seen it like it is right now”.
Clinton, campaigning Wednesday in Cleveland, said voters should not be fooled by any Trump efforts to revamp his candidacy. I will never tell you something I do not believe.
“I think people want him to be authentic”, Spicer said. He also shook up his campaign in recent days, tapping a combative conservative media executive, Stephen Bannon, to serve as CEO of the campaign.
He urged African-American voters to give him a chance, saying: “What do you have to lose by trying something new?”
Conway appeared on several morning news shows, saying on CNN’s “New Day” that Trump will begin preparations this weekend for three scheduled debates with Clinton and discussing a pair of new campaign ads being put in rotation this weekend.
Partisans, perhaps reacting to their party’s cues, are increasingly divided as well ― in March, Republicans were 38 points likelier than Democrats to say things were getting worse for people like them.
Trump has fallen behind Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in opinion polls nationally and in vital swing states, raising the prospect of a wipeout in the November 8 election that could hurt Republicans in congressional and state races.
During the rally in Charlotte, Trump described Clinton as a liar who has become wealthy through the Clinton Foundation and is part of a political system in which people “get very rich at your expense”.
“Our campaign is about representing the great majority of Americans. who read the newspaper or turn on the TV and don’t hear anyone speaking for them”, Trump said.
“We’re going to sharpen the message”, she told CNN on Thursday. But weeks of self-inflicted wounds have left him badly damaged, and he now trails Clinton by significant margins in national and battleground-state polls.
“As you know, I am not a politician”.
Trump’s first ads in North Carolina will hit the airwaves on Friday.
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In presidential election tradition, Hillary Clinton and her vice presidential running mate Tim Kaine released another round of tax returns last week – which means the press now has around 38 years of Clinton’s tax returns available to review.
