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Donald Trump’s Unorthodoxy Extends to Spending

Republican Donald Trump has said he isn’t interested in running a traditional presidential campaign. Campaign-finance records show he’s not: Half of the campaign’s 10 highest-paid consultants over the course of the election had never previously worked for a presidential campaign.

Just one of Democrat Hillary Clinton’s top 10 consultants had no presidential campaign experience, according to a Wall Street Journal review of Federal Election Commission records through July that focused on firms paid for consulting services, including on field, digital and strategic efforts.

Why the GOP establishment embraces Trump in Iowa more than any other battleground

At the end of his speech here Saturday, Donald Trump tried to shake the hand of Iowa’s governor. But Terry Branstad had other plans. He moved in for a hug.

The hug was a fitting symbol of how fully the Republican establishment in Iowa has embraced Trump, even as party leaders in other swing states increasingly keep him at arm’s length.

Poor Mike Pence. When he took the job as Don­ald Trump’s run­ning mate—a po­s­i­tion that many oth­er am­bi­tious Re­pub­lic­ans de­clined—he was hop­ing that the celebrity of be­ing on a na­tion­al tick­et would en­hance his fu­ture polit­ic­al pro­spects. In­stead, he’s tak­ing a double-whammy: He’s been forced to do dam­age con­trol for Trump, clean­ing up the many dam­aging com­ments Trump has made since the con­ven­tion. At the same time, he’s still vir­tu­ally un­known by most Amer­ic­ans, giv­ing him the bag­gage of be­ing on a Trump tick­et while re­ceiv­ing little of the at­ten­tion.

Dr. Ben Carson on Sunday said that Republicans should have reached out to the black community in the U.S. long ago.

In an interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” the former 2016 presidential candidate and retired neurosurgeon was asked what he thought about Donald Trump’s latest pitch to the African-American community.

Last week, Politico reported that Hillary Clinton’s campaign was set to employ a “run out the clock” strategy, declining to respond to recurring controversies even at the risk of seeming nonresponsive. In the abstract, such a strategy could make sense. Clinton has a fairly clear lead in the polls. There are only 10 weeks to go until the Nov. 8 election — and less than that until early voting, which begins in late September in some states.

Could undecided voters swing the election?

They tend to be more younger than older.

They are less likely to identify with either of the two parties.

And they strongly dislike both major-party candidates.

Trust issue continues to haunt Clinton

Hillary Clinton currently leads her GOP rival in most polls, both national and those in key battleground states. But that lead masks a serious problem for the now-favored Democratic nominee, as The Washington Post reports this morning on a focus group recently held in Milwaukee:

Wisconsin focus group spotlights Clinton’s crisis of trust

[E]veryone seemed bothered, at least to some degree, by the Democratic nominee’s trustworthiness, or lack thereof. It was a major theme that came up again and again during a ... Read More >>