Poll shows Clinton leads Trump by 8 points

Manafort had repeatedly signaled to members of the Republican establishment that he and Trump were working together to re-brand the candidate in a more presidential light.

But aside from Trump’s missteps, Republican strategists also became increasingly concerned that the campaign, under the direction of Manafort, had failed to build out a robust infrastructure in key battleground states.

Tom Pauken, a former chairman of the Republican Party of Texas, was a Trump delegate at last month’s GOP convention.

DONALD TRUMP: And I do regret it, particularly where it may have caused personal pain.

“She will have a significant challenge in persuading the voters of the country that she is indeed honest and trustworthy”, said Republican pollster Whit Ayres, who worked for GOP primary candidate Marco Rubio’s presidential bid.

It’s an issue unlikely to go away: At hearings planned for next month, Republicans in Congress say they’ll ask Federal Bureau of Investigation officials whether those notes indicate she may have lied to lawmakers in response to questions about her handling of classified material. “There will be things we are going to do to draw more attention to this”.

Donald Trump’s turbulent summer has been shadowed by a nagging question: Does the Republican nominee actually want to win the presidency? It also quite likely that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will reach the finish line in November with their unfavorables still astronomically high.

Mr. Trump’s ad buy focuses on immigration and national security.

Once again, Donald Trump could stop himself.

In an effort to steady his campaign after several rough weeks of controversies that knocked him off course, Trump put some new leadership at the top of his team this week and is about to begin his first real concerted television advertising campaign in the battleground states.

Oddly enough, this probably makes for odd bedfellows – putting progressives like me, traditional Republicans and true conservatives all in the same position with similar worries and concerns.

CNN on Friday updated their election forecast, moving three states previously classified as toss-ups into the leaning-Democrat column: New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

Instead, a new Trump emerged on Thursday: a less combative, more inclusive candidate who said he was running to be the “voice for every forgotten part of this country that has been waiting and hoping for a better future” and for those who “don’t hear anyone speaking for them”.

Meanwhile, Trump is spending money in North Carolina and campaigning in places like CT and Mississippi. The polling averages similarly have her up just over eight points.

President Obama heads for Louisiana next Tuesday to tour the flooding.

Trump also made a last-minute scheduling change, scrapping a planned event in NY in order to travel with his running mate Mike Pence to tour the flood damage in Louisiana on Friday morning. In a CNN interview this week, Ayotte said she is voting for Trump but not endorsing him-arguing there is a difference. The newspaper noted that Obama interrupted his two-week vacation on Martha’s Vineyard earlier this week to attend a fundraiser for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on the MA island.

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