On Thursday, the AP reported that it had obtained emails revealing further details: Gates directed an unregistered influence campaign that included attempts to gain positive press coverage for Ukrainian officials, sway US legislators, gather political intelligence and undercut American public sympathy for the imprisoned rival of Ukraine’s then-president.
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Republicans, anxious about preserving their House and Senate majorities in the face of fierce headwinds, are accelerating their plans to distance themselves from Donald Trump – and may soon concede, if only implicitly, his defeat. That’s just shy of the $90 million that Clinton’s aides said the nominee collected in July for her campaign and fellow Democratic committees.
Rather than showing up and disturbing the recovery process, Gov. Edwards requested that Trump volunteer or make a donation to the LA Flood Relief Fund, but considering what we know about Trump’s less-than-charitable record, we doubt he will be interested in any of that.
Hillary Clinton is seizing on Donald Trump’s recent comments that he “regrets” some things he’s said in the course of his presidential campaign. Brad Parscale, the president, is the campaign’s director of digital marketing.
Manafort’s campaign position was a vital though unpaid role that he used to steer the campaign over the past several months.
Some Trump’s consultants are also well-paid. In the modern polarized domestic political environment, the Republican Party is running the risk of depressing their own voter turnout and turning a Democratic victory into a landslide if they give up on Trump. By comparison, the Democratic presidential nominee spent about $38 million.
Advisers to the Republican candidate have in recent days urged the businessman to broaden his campaign amid his continuously poor polling with respect to black voters; the result of an NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist survey published last week finding Mr. Trump has just 1 percent of the black vote, with a three percent point margin of error.
The Republican National Committee also announced Saturday it had raised $199.5 million this election cycle, including $27.2 million in July.
She can afford her higher level of spending, the July campaign finance reports show.
The AP report comes less than three months before the November 8 election and as polls show Trump slipping behind Clinton.
The group paid at least $2.2 million to the Washington firms to push positions favorable to the party from 2012 until 2014, when Yanukovych was ousted and fled to Russian Federation, the AP said, citing sources.
He paid $100,000 to Cambridge Analytica, a deep-dive data firm that did business with GOP opponent Ted Cruz.
They also show Mr Trump is still paying the firm of sacked campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. The Clinton supporter struggled to impact the election in 2012 and 2014, but he has continued his efforts in this election, with the stated goal of inspiring action on climate change. Within hours of his speech, she tweeted: “This is so ignorant it’s staggering”.
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The campaign valued McIver’s time, accounted for as payroll from the Trump Organization, at $356.01.
