CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) – For the first time since declaring his presidential run, Republican Donald Trump acknowledged that his caustic comments may have caused people pain, saying that he regrets some of what he’s said “in the heat of debate”. “But I personally don’t regret anything that he’s said”. I do regret it, particularly where it may have caused personal pain.
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Trump didn’t specify what comments he was referring to, but he added that, “Too much is at stake for us to be consumed with these issues”.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, says he won’t be involved in Trump’s visit. As the crowd cheered, Trump pledged to “always tell you the truth”.
Wednesday’s campaign shake-up also brought on Steve Bannon, a combative conservative who heads the Breitbart News website, as chief executive officer in a move seen as giving Trump a chance to emphasize his unconventional style. He’s a political neophyte, like Trump, and one reputed to favor a good fight, with a nationalist, populist approach to the campaign – also like Trump.
Clinton responded by emailing supporters a reminder of Trump’s many insults and refusals to apologize, casting his remarks as a political exercise.
Most recently, even many of his fellow Republicans rebuked him for his prolonged feud with the family of a Muslim U.S. Army captain who was killed in the Iraq war. The new CEO poses dangers not only to Clinton, but also to Republicans like House Speaker Paul Ryan who have been tiptoeing around their party’s nominee by simultaneously criticizing him and endorsing him.
Fully 81% of registered voters who support Trump say life has gotten worse, compared with just 11% who say it has gotten better (six percent say it is about the same), it said. “They will take words of mine out of context and spend a week obsessing over every single syllable, and then pretend to discover some hidden meaning in what I said”, he alleged. I’ve never wanted to learn the language of the insiders, and I’ve never been politically correct – it takes far too much time, and can often make more hard.
In North Carolina, Trump trails Clinton by 9 percentage points, according to a recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News/Marist poll. But faced with the choice of Donald Trump, voters seem willing to tolerate the questions it raises about Clinton’s honesty due to their distaste for the Republican nominee. With just 80 days left until the election, Trump is trailing Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in preference polls of most key battleground states.
It fell to Palin in her January endorsement of Trump to tell the party establishment off: “We are mad, and we’ve been had. In a weird way, I think there’s a pivot that’s happening, and I think we’re standing in the middle of it right now”.
With outside groups supporting the campaigns factored in, Team Clinton is outspending Team Trump $104 million to $12 million. “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”. That’s all replaced by bright color images in Donald Trump’s America, with shots of the border being tightly patrolled by helicopter.
Asked why he thought he was thrown out, Anantha said, “I do think it’s because I’m brown”.
Trump also made a last-minute scheduling change, scrapping a planned event in NY in order to travel with his running mate Mike Pence to tour the flood damage in Louisiana on Friday morning.
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Trump’s campaign has promised to focus on more “themes”.
