Early Wednesday, Trump announced that he was overhauling his operation, bringing in a new chief executive and appointing a new campaign manager.
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The campaign shakeup, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, comes as polls show Trump trailing Clinton nationally and in key battleground states following a hard campaign stretch that saw him insulting the Muslim parents of a U.S. Army soldier who died in Iraq and temporarily refraining from endorsing House Speaker Paul Ryan in his primary race.
“It takes a lot of strength to say, ‘I’m sorry, ‘ to admit – not that he was wrong, but he wished he hadn’t done it”, said Cindy Ammons, 70, a Trump supporter from Spindale, North Carolina.
Khalid Jabara’s family says the neighbor, Stanley Majors, called them “dirty Arabs”, “filthy Lebanese”, “Aye-rabs”, and “Mooslems”. Bannon likes to push the limits of polite conversation and revels in taking the fight up a notch, strategists say.
“We’re going to make sure Donald Trump is comfortable about being in his own skin – that he doesn’t lose that authenticity that you simply can’t buy and a pollster can’t give you”, she said on CNN.
House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price of Georgia said what Trump “is reflecting, and what I support, is the frustration and anger that has come across the nation” over the inability of government leaders as a whole to address challenges in many policy areas, such as health care and education.
It fell to Palin in her January endorsement of Trump to tell the party establishment off: “We are mad, and we’ve been had”.
“That is Donald Trump”, Rose said. Manafort issued a statement through the campaign, saying, “It is imperative we continue to expand our team with top-tier talent”. At least one Trump staffer’s email account was infected in malware in 2015, although it was unclear if the hackers actually gained access to the Trump campaign computers.
The latest news broke amid a steady stream of polls showing Trump behind Clinton, both nationally and in battleground states that are the keys to winning the Electoral College.
However, out of those surveyed, only 27% believe Trump would make a “good or great president”, while 55% believe he would be either “poor or terrible” – 43% specifically said he would be a “terrible” president.
Donald Trump’s campaign shakeup and new plan to run more directly against the Washington establishment could force more defections by mainstream Republicans who are increasingly anxious about preserving their House and Senate majorities.
During his national security speech Monday, Trump said that President Obama and Clinton, a former secretary of state, abetted the growth of ISIS and other extremist groups through bad foreign policy.
Fineman joked to Beban, “If Steve Bannon [Trump’s new campaign executive] had been in the room during [the taco bowl] incident, Trump would have been wearing a sombrero at the same time”. “When one state hurts, we all hurt”, he said. “It’s me, I don’t want to change”. The mainstream just laughed at him but I’m a filmmaker and I watch the audience.
And Conway emphasized the importance of the upcoming debates as an opportunity to move the polling needle, saying that the Hillary Clinton stand-in for this weekend’s prep would likely please Trump, though she wouldn’t reveal the person’s identity.
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“It has to be about issues”, said Conway, a veteran Republican operative with a reputation as a more pragmatic data-driven analyst who aims to broaden Trump’s appeal to women and independent voters. But the current poll numbers do not breed confidence in a Trump victory. “When story assignments were distributed, did the writers at Breitbart know that the executive chairman was working with the Trump campaign?”
