The candidates also raised significant chunks of change for their respective parties, with Trump bringing in $80 million for the GOP and Clinton netting $90 million for the Democrats.
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And what does Donald Trump do?
For Trump, 19 percent of OH voters who aren’t supporters of his right now said they might be swayed if he ‘convinces me he is prepared to be commander in chief’.
He said the questions and speculation about the foundation – which includes allegations of an ongoing federal investigation – are “right-wing attacks” created to undermine its charitable work and to defeat Clinton, whom most polls show leading GOP rival Trump by double digits.
Clinton has led Trump in the poll throughout most of the 2016 campaign, and has maintained her advantage following last month’s Republican and Democratic conventions. Trump said he regretted some of his remarks have caused “personal pain”.
Republican leaders, including former members of Congress, have called for the Republican National Committee to stop helping Trump and refocus its resources on helping candidates win down-ballot races for the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Sean Spicer, the RNC’s chief strategist and communications director, will “be spending more time” with the Trump campaign, newly installed campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said on ABC’s “This Week”. Much has already happened and more unforeseen events are guaranteed to occur before voters head to the polls in November, but Donald Trump has dug himself a hole that it might be impossible to get out of.
“The Hillary people want this to all be about tone and temperament. That’s just plain fact”, the Alabama lawmaker said.
“We’re working very closely with the RNC”, Conway said.
“So what Donald Trump said yesterday in that meeting. varied little from what he has said publicly”, Conway said.
Clinton’s financial advantage extends to super PACs – organizations that can raise unlimited funds from corporations, unions, associations and individuals and spend unlimited money to openly push for or against political candidates, but which are prohibited from coordinating with campaigns. “We’re not seeing a pivot”.
But Priebus says: “People can pivot into different roles and ultimately the person in charge of Donald Trump’s campaign is Donald Trump”. “Trump appears to be doing worse with these voters than any Republican in fifty years”, Galdieri said. Mook insisted that Manafort’s removal wasn’t enough, and that Trump needed to explain just how much Russian Federation has run his campaign.
By comparison, the Democratic presidential nominee spent about $38m (€33.5m).
Stephanopoulos went on to question Mook about the controversy surrounding foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation.
Trump has been slumping in the polls. A CBS News Battleground Tracker Poll showed Clinton has extended her lead in OH to six points, improving two points since July. A RealClearPolitics average of recent surveys shows Clinton up by 5.3 percentage points.
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Trump’s team said they’re still discussing whether to accept the debate schedule laid out for the fall.
