“It is time for a change, ” Trump said near the end of a almost hour-long, carefully scripted speech in Charlotte – his first appearance since news broke of his campaign overhaul.
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Hillary Clinton’s camp reacted to Donald Trump’s admission that he regrets certain things he’s said on the campaign trai.
Speaking in Charlotte, North Carolina, Trump continued: “I have done that, and I regret it, particularly where it may have caused personal pain”.
In previous weeks, Trump has read prepared remarks at smaller events devoted to economic and foreign policy, including a Monday address in OH on fighting terrorism.
Holding his rally in a swing state with a sizable black population, Trump made overtures in his speech to African Americans – a bloc that has recently supported him in single digits, polls show.
In his presidential announcement speech previous year, he described some Mexican immigrants as “criminals and rapists”.
Trump is struggling in those key states against Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton, who has been on the air for months.
The Times noted: “If not reversed, the trend could materialize into one of the most unanticipated developments of the 2016 presidential campaign: That Hillary Clinton, the first woman at the head of a major party ticket and a divisive figure unpopular with many men, ends up narrowing the gender gap that has been a constant of American presidential elections for decades”.
As was the case earlier this year, most voters have doubts that either Clinton or Trump would make a good president.
Trump is reading from prepared remarks, using a teleprompter instead of his usually off-the-cuff rally style after re-shaping his campaign team.
It’s a vulnerability the campaign says it’s aware of and is convinced it can solve, if Mr. Trump tailors his appeal correctly. Previously, Trump had eschewed such events that historically comprise a significant portion of a candidate’s time.
But Ms. Dolan also said segmentations into “soccer moms”, “security moms” and even “NASCAR dads” oversimplify voter blocs, and she isn’t sure Mr. Trump can pull his campaign together to get his message across anyway. “I don’t even need commercials, if you want to know the truth”. “In this journey, I will never lie to you”. “I have done that – and, believe it or not, I regret it”. Trump continues to campaign for his run for President of the United States.
Conway said the candidate’s White House bid could preserve his “authenticity” and still move past a long string of controversies to focus on issues.
“It is only votes that she sees”.
And this is bad news for Trump because, historically, every nominee winning at this point in the process since polling was invented has gone on to, at the very least, win the popular vote.
Just 27 percent of registered voters think Trump would make a good or great president, while 55 percent say the bellicose NY billionaire developer would be either poor or awful president. “She has been there forever and look at where you are”. “Let him be him, in this sense”. If he does not perform any better than Romney did with white men, he will nearly certainly be unable to rally the millions of disaffected white voters he says will propel him to the White House.
Yet, still, on the mega-issue, America’s desire for change, and on specific issues, Trump holds something close to a full house.
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Trump then said “I think I will be called Mr. Brexit”. The developments come less than three months before Election Day, and roughly six weeks before early voting begins.
