Donald Trump concedes problems in presidential campaign as
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Democrat
Hillary Clinton's lead over Trump in national polls has widened in recent days,
while a growing number of fellow Republicans have declared they won't support
their own party's nominee.
In a rare show of humility by the boastful
billionaire, Donald Trump is acknowledging that his presidential campaign faces challenges and could
ultimately fall short.
The Republican presidential nominee is straying from
his signature bravado as he campaigns in the battleground state of Florida,
even telling a gathering of evangelical ministers yesterday he’s “having a tremendous problem in Utah.” The same day, the reality show star acknowledged that
his lack of political correctness could cost him the election if Americans
reject his blunt approach.
“We’re having a problem,” Trump told the ministers,
adding that the next president could get to nominate
up to five high-court justices. “It could cost us the Supreme Court.”
After trouncing challengers in the Republican primary, Trump is encountering
worrying signs as his campaign moves into the general election. Democrat Hillary Clinton’s lead over Trump in national polls
has widened in recent days, while a growing number of fellow Republicans have declared they won’t support their own
party’s nominee.
Trump’s exercise in self-awareness is a marked
departure from his usual tenor on the campaign trail, where for months at
rallies he would tick through poll numbers showing him winning as if they were
sports scores of his favourite team. “We’re going to win so big,” Trump told a
roaring crowd one month ago at the Republican National Convention.
Yet yesterday, Trump was reduced to citing a poll
that actually showed him a few points behind Clinton and arguing the race
between them was close. Asked how he planned to reverse Clinton’s advantage,
Trump said he simply planned to do “the same thing I’m doing right now.” “At
the end, it’s either going to work, or I’m going to, you know, I’m going to
have a very, very nice, long vacation,” Trump told CNBC.
Even while working to restore confidence in his
campaign, Trump appeared to court controversy anew when he said that he was
open to trying Americans suspected of terrorism at the Guantanamo Bay detention
center in Cuba. Asked specifically about U.S. citizens, Trump said he didn’t
like that President Barack Obama
and others wanted to try them in traditional courts rather than military
commissions at Guantanamo Bay.
“I would say they could be tried there,” Trump said.
“That’ll be fine.” In Utah, typically a reliably Republican state, Trump’s
challenges have been particularly striking. The state’s large Mormon population
(UTAH’s) has voiced serious skepticism about Trump, though the state’s GOP
governor has endorsed him.
Courtesy: AP, Orlando