Anti-Trump Republicans are pro-Clinton, says Pauken
“The scary thing for Republicans in the Virginia and Colorado numbers is that they show a possible Hillary Clinton landslide in states that only eight years ago leaned GOP and before that had been GOP strongholds”, said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll.
Trump briefly met with veterans and police officers Tuesday afternoon during a campaign stop at the Milwaukee County War Memorial Center in Milwaukee, including with Sheriff David Clarke and Sheriff’s Inspector Edward Bailey.
Trump took a more friendly perspective on North Atlantic Treaty Organisation in his speech, saying he would be willing to support North Atlantic Treaty Organisation if it continues to make policy changes that will help counter the threat posed by Islamic terrorism.
At a voter registration event in Philadelphia Tuesday, Clinton said her campaign is “doing fine right now”, but warned against complacency in the race against Republican Donald Trump. “If it is true, people shouldn’t be rioting”, he added. The campaign statement announcing the changes touted a Bloomberg Politics article that dubbed Bannon “the most unsafe political operative in America”.
Pence said on “Fox News Sunday” that he remains proud to be Trump’s running mate and advised: “Stay tuned, it’s very early in this campaign”.
Donald Trump says that protesters must respect law and order because without it, “you don’t have a country”.
Manafort has spent months trying to ingratiate Trump to Republican lawmakers who have urged the billionaire businessman to dial back his fiery rhetoric and run a more traditional campaign. When his ties to the Kremlin came under scrutiny, he absurdly claimed that Hillary was the one who was too close to Putin.
He blamed President Barack Obama and his would-be Democratic successor, Hillary Clinton, for allowing extremism to take root in the Middle East, pointing to Obama’s withdrawal from Iraq and USA military intervention in Libya.
Turning to the U.S. Olympic team, she said, “Team USA is showing the world what this country stands for”.
The Republican convention made a majority of young voters see Trump as less presidential (52%) less credible (51%) and less trustworthy (50%) and by significant margins he was seen as less human (46%) and less accessible (40%).
“It is now time for a new approach”, said the GOP nominee, claiming the US policy of nation building has been an “absolute failure”.
He picked a fight with the parents of a Muslim U.S. Army captain who was killed in Iraq and falsely accused President Barack Obama and Clinton of being “co-founders” of Islamic State. He then admonished attendees that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has taken money from the same people who promote radical Islamic beliefs.
Trump – who ad libbed at times but largely read the prepared remarks from a teleprompter – began his speech by thanking law enforcement officers for their service “in difficult, difficult, difficult times”.
“Who can have a problem with that?” “That’s what the narrative is”, Trump told Fox News.
He said Trump is continuing to raise millions of dollars while traveling to key battleground states – Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida – and remains personally “very connected” to the operations of his campaign.
Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., warned that the “campaign is not over” and described Trump as still being in transition from the bulldog who beat 16 rivals in the GOP primary to a general election candidate who communicates differently to a wider electorate what he wants to do differently than Clinton.
Thomas reported from Philadelphia.