Donald Trump Sends First Campaign Fundraising Email

Amid criticism from fellow Republicans about his tone and provocative statements, Trump suggested over the weekend that he would “just keep funding my own campaign” if GOP leaders did not rally around his candidacy.

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday will make the case that Donald Trump is “unfit” to manage the USA economy in a speech modeled closely after her foreign policy takedown of the presumptive Republican nominee earlier this month in San Diego, according to aides.

The May reports were filed hours after news broke that Trump had fired his campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski.

“I’m not looking to spend a billion dollars”.

While the twin speeches on the economy sought to set an economic framework for the general election, Clinton’s pitch was also aimed at Democratic primary voters who supported Vermont Sen.

“I’m having more difficulty with some people in the party than I have with the Democrats”, he said. For months, the biggest cash injections into his campaign coffers were from his personal bank accounts.

“That said, Trump’s campaign needs to transition quickly to a national, general election effort online, on the air and on the ground – his populist, anti-Washington, new leadership message has been muddled by sideshow issues”.

Many Republicans feel he has squandered the precious weeks since locking up the nomination. On the campaign trail, he appears stuck in a primary campaign he’s already won.

Laying the groundwork, Clinton’s campaign seized on a report Monday by Moody’s Analytics which found Trump’s plans would lead to a “lengthy recession”, costing almost 3.5 million American jobs.

Trump has pointed to trade as a major difference with Clinton, saying last week that her support of past trade deals, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement, has cost the country “millions of jobs”. Since then, the campaign’s rival factions have been jockeying for power. Manafort, who has long advocated a more scripted approach backed by a larger and more professional campaign apparatus, will be taking full control. Among them: assailing a judge’s Mexican heritage, asserting that President Barack Obama sympathized with terrorists after the Orlando nightclub attacks, and trying to explain away his campaign’s dismal fundraising.

But as with everything involving Trump, the billionaire appears to be the only one truly in charge. The campaign formally announced the hiring of four staffers Tuesday, and campaign chairman Paul Manafort signaled on a conference call with aides that a rapid expansion would be coming soon.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says he agrees that delegates to the Republican national convention should be free to vote their conscience, even if that means not supporting presumptive nominee Donald Trump.

The group has largely been tasked with attacking Trump.

His communications team now consists of a single spokeswoman and he has just about 30 paid staff deployed to battleground states across the country. Mitt Romney’s campaign pulled in $23.4 million, versus $39.1 million for Obama.

Democrats, too, have expressed surprise at Trump’s messaging missteps in the general election campaign, particularly given his effectiveness against his Republican rivals in the party’s primary.

He’s also facing backlash for heading to Scotland to promote a golf resort later in this week in the midst of one of the most tumultuous stretches of his White House bid.

Veteran GOP fundraiser Fred Malek said he doubted Lewandowski’s departure would have much impact on the campaign’s fund-raising and said the real change has to come from Trump himself. “He’s proud of it”, the Democratic presidential candidate said.

“Every day we see how reckless and careless Trump is”.

“Without money you don’t have a campaign”, said Stan Hubbard, a Republican donor from Minnesota who owns a chain of radio stations and who has contributed to Trump. “Donald Trump is Donald Trump and he’s not going to change into something else”.