The good news for Trump is that the election isn’t being held today and a new national poll out from Pew Research shows some of Clinton’s post-convention glory may be fading a bit. “It gives you more real estate in a more uncluttered way to break through”. Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign. That type of one-on-one interaction with voters is a staple of most political campaigning, yet something Trump had mostly avoided in favor of large rallies.
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In a 2014 study, Loyola University Law School professor Justin Levitt found just 31 incidents of voter impersonation out of more than 1 billion ballots cast in a 14-year span. Only last week the Trump campaign began airing its first ads since the primaries. That’s about the same amount it had paid him each month while he was running the campaign.
And if the theme of this latest bit of Trump court intrigue is a return to the “Let Trump be Trump” philosophy, Clinton’s operatives will only cheer. Yet the campaign’s payroll remained thin, and there did not appear to be much new in the way of office leases across the country, including in critical battleground states such as Ohio.
“They have to basically make sure that in those eight or nine states that matter, they have their own imprint”, Ed Rollins, senior strategist for the pro-Trump Great America PAC, said of the campaign.
“The fact the Clinton Foundation is still taking foreign contributions until the election, but not after, is a sign they know those donations lead to conflicts of interest, ” Trump spokesman Jason Miller said in a statement, calling for the foundation to immediately cease taking foreign contributions. And he’s boasted of holding the line on his campaign spending. His trip to flood-ravaged Louisiana on Friday won praise from residents who feel overlooked by President Barack Obama.
Donald Trump doubled his campaign expenses last month, yet was still spending at a far slower clip than Hillary Clinton. She tore through $49 million of her funds in July – almost three times more than the $18.4 million Trump spent. Clinton’s campaign raised 52 million dollars (£39.8 million). In June, her campaign reported total receipts of $36.4 million. Even as she kicked off a fundraising blitz, Clinton emailed supporters asking them to contribute to the relief effort and noted that she had spoken with Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat whose spokesman blasted Trump’s visit as “a photo op”.
Trump’s critics have focused on his hiring of Bannon, saying the Breitbart News website traffics in conspiracy theories.
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At the end of July, the campaign paid 100,000 dollars (£76,000) to Cambridge Analytica, a deep-dive data firm that did business with Republican opponent Ted Cruz.
