Clinton is slated to spend $17 million during the period, according to Goldstein, and the pro-Clinton super-PAC Priorities USA has committed $5 million during roughly the identical time period in Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina, Nevada, Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nebraska.
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Trump’s main focus is on Florida, where the billionaire spent $1.4 million in airtime across six media markets.
Manafort, who only took over as campaign chairman from Corey Lewandowski in June, has in the past week been linked to covert U.S. lobbying for Ukraine’s pro-Russia government and failed to disclose his foreign links as per United States law. It begins: “In Hillary Clinton’s America, the system stays rigged against Americans”.
This first spot employs some of his signature lines, said by a narrator as images of what are supposed to be a crowd of Syrian refugees and border crossers being detained by police. Illegal immigrants convicted of committing crimes get to stay. Our border open. It’s more of the same, but worse. “I will not rest until children of every colour in this country are fully included in the American Dream”, Trump said.
In contrast, “Donald Trump’s America is secure”, it says, the music upbeat and uplifting this time.
But the visit was met with harsh words from Gov. John Bel Edwards, whose spokesman Richard Carbo said, “We welcome him to LA, but not for a photo-op”. He wants him to volunteer or make a “sizable donation”.
Wednesday’s campaign reshuffle also brought on Steve Bannon, a combative conservative who headed the Breitbart News website, as chief executive officer, in a move seen as giving Trump a chance to emphasize his unconventional style.
Trump’s new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, promised on Thursday he would stick to a more disciplined and uplifting message to voters in the final dash to Election Day without crimping his freewheeling style.
Despite the surveys that show Trump faltering, many of his supporters told BuzzFeed News at a rally Thursday the Republican candidate is in fact leading the presidential race.
The national media and the Clinton campaign heavily criticized Trump when he made a comment during a campaign rally earlier this month seemingly prodding gun supporters to go after the Democratic nominee.
That’s something he has landed in controversy for during this campaign right from the start.
Logan said Trump’s commitment to racial minorities will win over some voters and increase his standing the polls – which he added were “all fake”.
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Emails between Manafort’s deputy, Rick Gates, also a top Trump adviser, and the lobbying firm Mercury LLC showed that Manafort’s firm directly orchestrated a covert Washington lobbying operation on behalf of Ukraine’s then-ruling political party. The Clinton campaign has outspent Trump on air $61 million to $0, according to data from Advertising Analytics/NBC News.
