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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Jun 20, 2016, 11:20 AM Jun 2016

Trump insiders disappointed Orlando shooting didn’t give him a ‘bump in the polls’: report

People close to Donald Trump are reportedly scrambling to come up with a political strategy to save his campaign after last week’s mass shooting in Orlando failed to give the candidate a “bump in the polls” as his aides had hoped.

According to a report published by Bloomberg on Monday, top campaign officials and members of Trump’s family were gathering in New York in an effort to get the presumptive Republican nominee back on track after a series of missteps following the shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando.

“The frustration among Trump’s allies increased after his speech last week in Manchester, N.H., where he responded to the mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub,” Bloomberg reported. “Many in Trump’s inner-circle had predicted that he would get a bump in the polls, as he did following the terror attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif. Instead, he faced a well-orchestrated rapid response machine from the Clinton campaign and the Democratic Party, which hammered him for days.” (emphasis added by me -- DV)

The New York Times confirmed on Monday that Trump had once again reshuffled the roles of his top advisers, and that controversial Campaign Manager Corey Lewandowski would be leaving.

-snip- (Trump's Press release about Lewandowski leaving the campaign)

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/trump-insiders-disappointed-orlando-shooting-didnt-give-him-a-bump-in-the-polls-report/

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