“Our campaign just finished up our strongest month of fundraising to date, we’re adding talented and experienced staffers on a daily basis and Mr. Trump’s turning out bigger, more enthusiastic crowds than Hillary Clinton ever could”, Miller said.
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Meg Whitman is crossing party lines to endorse Hilary Clinton for president. “I would say right now it’s the best we’ve been in terms of being united”, he said.
Clinton’s pitch is aimed at cutting into Trump’s support among white working class voters drawn to his anti-trade, anti-illegal immigration message.
Manafort also denied the reports that RNC Chairman Reince Priebus and other prominent Republicans were planning to intervene.
Party chairman Reince Priebus appealed to the NY billionaire’s adult children to help.
Senior GOP leaders are also frustrated with Trump’s sometimes weird behavior as polling numbers show a narrower lead for the Democratic nominee, former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Despite some criticism of the comments, Trump doubled down during an interview on Fox News’ “Hannity” that night, calling the 2012 presidential election “unfair”.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump holds a purple heart medal given to him by Lt. Col. Louis Dorfman during a campaign event at Briar Woods High School August 2, 2016, in Ashburn, Virginia.
“He said: ‘Well, we don’t make that stuff in America”. Yet barely two weeks after nominating Trump, a growing number of Republicans are beginning to consider what might happen if he were just.to quit.
Speaking to Fox, Trump said Obama had been “the worst president, maybe, in the history of our country”.
Sources close to the campaign are describing a series of missteps that are trailing the GOP presidential nominee, most prominently his now multi-day battle against Khizr Khan, the Muslim father of a killed U.S. soldier. The aide said congressional offices that support Trump got two sets of talking points on Monday from the campaign about the Khan situation but have not heard anything from the campaign about Trump’s Ryan comments.
Clinton also hit Trump for his criticism of the Khan family, who delivered a speech attacking Trump at the Democratic national convention last week.
The Republican heavyweights hope to enlist Trump’s children in the effort, according to the report.
A former reality TV star with a propensity for free-flowing insults, Mr Trump has won support particularly from white blue-collar workers who feel neglected by the political establishment.
“His words and actions over the last several days are so shockingly unacceptable in our diverse and democratic society that it is simply unthinkable that Donald Trump could become our president”, Klarman said of the Republican presidential nominee.
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A Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll suggested Hillary Clinton had extended her lead over Trump to eight percentage points, from six points on Friday.
