Donald Trump Tries to Slow Down Campaign Skid
Donald Trump Tries to Slow Down Campaign Skid
Ben Brody, Kevin Cirilli, Billy House
August 3, 2016 — 12:10 PM CDT
Donald Trump's campaign is trying mightily to turn around a rough week by dispatching his running mate to fix his most pressing problem while aides circled the wagons against an onslaught of criticism.
After Trump pointedly refused to back House Speaker Paul Ryan on Tuesday, Indiana Governor Mike Pence, issued his own endorsement of Ryan on Fox News. Trump's advisers, meanwhile, tried to change an increasingly negative campaign narrative powered by sliding poll numbers and several controversies by pointing to the campaign's $80 million fundraising haul.
During Trump's first campaign rally on Wednesday, the candidate managed to stay relatively on message, opening his remarks with strong condemnation of a report in the Wall Street Journal that the Obama administration's airlift of $400 million to Iran that coincided with the release of four detained Americans.
Yet Trump, unprompted, also revived old controversies, claiming that he had never implied that he referencing Megyn Kelly's menstrual cycle and also that he never meant to mock a disabled reporter's gestures. Both incidents happened last year.
Read More: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles...
Ben Brody, Kevin Cirilli, Billy House
August 3, 2016 — 12:10 PM CDT
Donald Trump's campaign is trying mightily to turn around a rough week by dispatching his running mate to fix his most pressing problem while aides circled the wagons against an onslaught of criticism.
After Trump pointedly refused to back House Speaker Paul Ryan on Tuesday, Indiana Governor Mike Pence, issued his own endorsement of Ryan on Fox News. Trump's advisers, meanwhile, tried to change an increasingly negative campaign narrative powered by sliding poll numbers and several controversies by pointing to the campaign's $80 million fundraising haul.
During Trump's first campaign rally on Wednesday, the candidate managed to stay relatively on message, opening his remarks with strong condemnation of a report in the Wall Street Journal that the Obama administration's airlift of $400 million to Iran that coincided with the release of four detained Americans.
Yet Trump, unprompted, also revived old controversies, claiming that he had never implied that he referencing Megyn Kelly's menstrual cycle and also that he never meant to mock a disabled reporter's gestures. Both incidents happened last year.
Read More: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles...
