GOP frustrations with Trump mount as allies weigh options

Jennifer Pierotti Lim, who heads a group called Republican Women for Hillary, said they have heard from almost 100 women since the party conventions concluded. They spoke on condition of anonymity, because they were not authorized to publicly discuss campaign strategy. Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine will be in Grand Rapids to help open a campaign office on Friday, and Trump is scheduled to speak to the Detroit Economic Club at the Renaissance Center on Monday.

“But this is the time in August … where you try different approaches out”, he said on “Good Morning America”.

On “CBS This Morning”, Manafort said that while Trump didn’t take a position in the primary, “he’s going to support Paul Ryan”. “I don’t even know where to start on answering this question”, Obama said with an exasperated half-smile.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton extended her lead over Republican rival Donald Trump to eight percentage points, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released, up from six points on Friday.

Ross, who has made billions of dollars betting on bankruptcies and distressed assets, is a critic of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s trade views. “He made a deal with the devil”.

“He feels like a fool”, a Republican source familiar with the situation said of Priebus. Gingrich, a Trump ally, said his friend now stood no chance of beating Hillary Clinton in November. “That would be awful”, he said during a campaign stop in battleground Florida.

“I would say right now it’s the best we’ve been in terms of being united”, he said.

And on climate change, Sanders argues for bold action on policies that reduce fossil fuel dependency and push clean energy research; Johnson thinks climate change is “probably” happening, but more government regulation is not the answer.

On several occasions in the past week, the in governor has found himself in direct conflict with Trump, taking a different campaign tact or running damage control after one of the Republican presidential nominee’s incendiary remarks. That includes Trump’s battle with the family of a USA soldier killed in Iraq, the response to Russian hacking of the Democratic National Committee, and more.

Privately, however, Trump has concerns about his own team. “We’ll see whether or not he can take a deep breath and learn from these lessons”, said Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich during a Fox Business interview. “We don’t plan on winning in August, we plan on winning in November”, he said. Coffman looks at the camera and says he’s always asked about Trump and then says, “Honestly, I don’t care for him much”.

A spokeswoman for Trump did not respond to requests for comment.

“We are a grassroots party, we aren’t a superdelegate party”, Ryan told Bader.

“He’s running this sort of make-it-up-as-you-go campaign”, Ryan said. But Trump managed to win the Republican nomination – sweeping aside 16 more experienced candidates in the process – by challenging conventional wisdom.

While some major donors are hesitant to back Trump, the candidate over the last month has pulled in millions of dollars in small-money donations to boost total contributions to more than $80 million for Trump’s campaign and the Republican Party, almost matching Clinton’s $90 million haul during the same period. In contrast, Hillary Clinton’s organization and committees brought in about $90 million in July, that campaign reported on Tuesday.

Privately, Trump points to his recent fundraising success, large rallies and decent polling against a seasoned candidate as evidence that his campaign is working well.

Trump loyalists continue to stand behind him.