Ana Navarro, a GOP activist/Jeb Bush supporter/”oft-quoted dial-a-zinger”, is spending much of the 2016 election cycle taking down Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on TV.
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Trump had planned to deliver a speech on Thursday in Denver about his immigration policy, but that event has been postponed, a campaign official confirmed.
While keeping up the attack on Clinton, Trump in his speech also outlined some agenda items, as Republicans have been urging him to do for months. In the weeks ahead, Trump has promised to follow the messaging up with a series of ads targeting the central themes of his campaign, like immigration, along with regularly scheduled policy addresses ahead of the upcoming debates. “He wants to double down on letting Donald Trump be Donald Trump”, Mook said. Asked about that force, his new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, demurred. In last week’s NBC News Survey Monkey weekly tracking poll, only 17 percent agreed Trump had the personality and temperament to serve, including barely more than one-third of Republicans, compared with Clinton’s 42 percent. While he declined to provide details, he said the plan will be “humane and ethical and treats everybody well, but we have to solve a problem”, referring to illegal immigration.
“I’mnot flip-flopping. We want to come up with a really fair but firm answer”, Trump told Fox News on Monday.
Trump’s appeal came the same day a conservative watchdog group, Judicial Watch, released 725 pages of State Department documents, including some it said were examples of preferential treatment provided to donors at the request of former Clinton Foundation executive Douglas Band.
Trump added, “I’m not flip-flopping”. He also is expected to expand on his call from earlier Monday for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton to “shut down the Clinton Foundation”.
For the third time in a week, Donald Trump’s campaign has emailed supporters a lengthy questionnaire it says will help shape Trump’s message – and included in it is a question regarding his use of the term “crooked Hillary”.
Trump met over the weekend with Hispanic supporters, representatives of a community that has been wary of the billionaire businessman’s proposals to build a border wall and deport people living in the United States illegally. On Monday, a federal judge ordered the State Department to begin reviewing almost 15,000 previously undisclosed e-mails and documents uncovered by the F.B.I. They were recovered as part of the FBI’s now-closed investigation into the handling of sensitive information that flowed through Clinton’s private home server during her time as secretary of state.
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Conway’s comments set off a firestorm of speculation that Trump was shifting to a more general election-friendly message.
