Trump camp goes on tear against the media

Trump seemingly called on Second Amendment gun rights advocates to threaten the life of Clinton if she wins the election and tries to nominate liberal justices to the Supreme Court.

Tapper also asked Manafort about why Trump still won’t release his tax returns, despite Clinton releasing hers along with vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine.

Mr Trump has repeatedly suggested that he will compete in traditionally Democratic states, vowing to commit time and energy to places like California and his home state of NY.

“It’s asinine that he would be in CT holding a public rally less than 90 days before the election”, said Republican strategist Matt Mackowiak.

Donald Trump’s presidential campaign chairman on Sunday dismissed reports that Trump was floundering amid perceived off-message remarks, and said the campaign “is moving forward and is very strong”. Trump is very plugged in and he’s very connected. “That’s number one. Number two, we’re only six points down”, Spicer said, referring to the gap that Clinton has opened up against Trump in some national polls.

On down the ballot, Wisconsin voters will see House Speaker Paul Ryan running for re-election after he soundly beat his Republican primary rival on Tuesday. Susan Collins of ME last week became the seventh Senate Republican to break with Trump over his combative anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant rhetoric.

Any discussions of cutting off funds to Trump in August would be “ridiculous”, Spicer said.

Clinton now holds a 6.8 percentage-point lead over Trump in Real Clear Politics cumulative national polling average, with some polls showing her with as much as a 10-point advantage. Following a massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in June, Trump introduced a new standard.

The speech comes as Trump has struggled to stay on message. He contrasted his tax cut proposals with Clinton’s plans for new taxes and spending programs. Trump later said the media had misconstrued his “sarcasm”, although he said in the same breath that perhaps he wasn’t being sarcastic. “It was not at all meant to be a threat”, he said. But he was not definitive in an interview with WABC in NY and the campaign did not return calls requesting more information. As reported by The Hill, Manafort made some of his own charges against CNN regarding their coverage of Donald Trump and his comments on the second amendment compared to their coverage of other news stories this week.

On the eve of the speech, the Clinton campaign slammed Trump’s campaign manager for ties to Russian Federation and pro-Kremlin interests, an apparent reference to a New York Times story published Sunday night.

“As a factual matter, on Monday, my show covered Mr. Trump’s speech. OK?”

Trump will get another chance to reset his campaign on Monday when he is expected to lay out his plan for defeating what running mate Mike Pence on Sunday called, “radical Islamic terrorism” with “real specifics” on how to make the United States safer. New emails were released by the State Department that raised new questions about the agency’s relationship with The Clinton Foundation while she was secretary of State.

“There’s simply no question about that”, Pence added. Trump also lost the support of 50 Republican former national security officials, though they stopped short of endorsing Clinton.

It was the latest in a series of implicit acknowledgements by the Republican presidential nominee that he is not winning and in fact could be headed for a big loss to Clinton on Election Day in less than three months. “But more importantly, he removes from the tax rolls a significant percentage of the American people”.