Aides reaffirmed a strategy they agreed to in May – when it became clear Trump would be the Republican nominee – of avoiding what they saw as a trap of getting into a tit-for-tat with Trump over personal attacks. “And believe it or not, I regret it – and I do regret it – particularly where it may have caused personal pain”.
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A new brain trust in place, Donald Trump on Thursday moved to invest almost $5 million in battleground state advertising as the Republican presidential contender took modest steps to address daunting challenges in the states that will make or break his White House ambitions.
Manafort had been leading the campaign as chairman, but his resignation comes just days after a shakeup at the top of the operation.
It’s an issue unlikely to go away: At hearings planned for next month, Republicans in Congress say they’ll ask Federal Bureau of Investigation officials whether those notes indicate she may have lied to lawmakers in response to questions about her handling of classified material.
There’s no shortage of differences between Hillary Clinton’s and Donald Trump’s supporters, who seem to disagree on everything from the benefits of immigration to the state of the economy. “Just think about how much different things would be if the media in this country sent their cameras to our border, or to our closing factories, or to our failing schools”.
Trump “was not a candidate that could be corralled”, Steele told MSNBC.
“Well, look it’s obviously a hard thing for anybody when they change jobs and have a position that they’ve been so invested in for a long time and really put their heart and soul into something, to not be part of it, particularly when you’re this close”, Lewandowski told CNN’s Kate Bolduan on “At This Hour”. John McCain’s five-and-a-half years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam last summer – “I like people that weren’t captured”, he said – Trump declined.
Her lead is down from that in a Pew Research poll conducted in middle to late June: In a three-way contest that didn’t include Stein, 45 percent favored Clinton, to 36 percent for Trump and 11 percent for Johnson.
Clearly, as the article referred to above by the Washington Post describes, Donald Trump is going it alone with his campaign to embrace his nationalist audience. The Republican Candidate had reportedly begun to feel “controlled”. Trump’s personnel moves reflect instability atop his campaign, the official says, while Clinton’s leadership team has been largely unchanged since she announced her candidacy in April 2015. Trump hired him in March to help the campaign compete with the well-oiled political machine of Sen.
On Wednesday, Trump appointed right-wing news executive Stephen Bannon CEO and promoted pollster Kellyanne Conway to campaign manager.
Donald Trump made a rare act of contrition on Thursday, saying he regretted offending people with his harsh way of speaking. The Times reported earlier this month that the campaign has been plagued by infighting.
“We learned tonight that his speechwriter and teleprompter knows he has much for which he should apologize. But that apology tonight is simply a well-written phrase until he tells us which of his many offensive, bullying and divisive comments he regrets_and changes his tune altogether”, she said.
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Trump is a staunch gun rights supporter and often talks about the issue on the campaign trail. “I have done that”, the GOP nominee said, reading from prepared text.
