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On Top Of The News Email:news@arubatoday.com website: www.arubatoday.com Tel:+297 582-7800 Friday, August 12, 2016
Shifting Tone, Trump Entertains the Notion He Could Lose
JOSH LEDERMAN Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Abingdon, Va. Straying from his trademark
Associated Press bravado, Donald Trump acknowledged Thursday that his presidential campaign is facing challenges and could ultimately fall short
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) —
Straying from his trademark (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
bravado, Donald Trump
acknowledged Thursday through poll numbers show- opened over him, Trump “We’ve really been given a able House and Senate
that his presidential cam- ing him winning as if they said he simply planned to false narrative,†Trump said candidates.
paign is facing challenges were sports scores of his fa- do “the same thing I’m do- of his struggles in Utah. Expressing anything other
and could ultimately fall vorite team. ing right now.†Yet in other traditionally than confidence this close
short — a rare expression of “We’re going to win so “At the end, it’s either go- GOP-leaning states like Ari- to Election Day is unusual
humility by the Republican big,†Trump told a roaring ing to work, or I’m going zona and Georgia, too, Re- for a presidential nominee.
presidential nominee. crowd one month ago at to, you know, I’m going to publicans are concerned But GOP strategist Mike Du-
Trump’s most explicit con- the Republican National have a very, very nice, long Trump’s unpopularity could Haime, who advised Trump
cession came as he plead- Convention. vacation,†Trump said. give Democrats an improb- ally Chris Christie’s presiden-
ed for support at a gather- Yet on Thursday, Trump was In Utah, typically a reliably able victory. tial bid, said there could be
ing of evangelical ministers, reduced to citing a poll Republican state, Trump’s The concerns are compel- benefits to Trump’s new-
where Trump observed that actually showed him challenges have been par- ling enough that dozens found self-awareness.
he was “having a tremen- a few points behind Clin- ticularly striking. The state’s of worried Republicans “Showing some vulner-
dous problem in Utah.†The ton and arguing the race large Mormon population gathered signatures Thurs- ability, admitting there are
same day, the billionaire between them was close. has voiced serious skepti- day for a letter to the GOP some vulnerabilities, hu-
celebrity acknowledged Asked by CNBC how he cism about Trump, though party chairman urging him manizes him and could po-
that his lack of political planned to reverse the ad- the state’s GOP governor to stop helping Trump and tentially make him more lik-
correctness could cost him vantage that Clinton has has endorsed him. focus on protecting vulner- able,†DuHaime said. q
the election if Americans
reject his blunt approach.
“We’re having a problem,â€
Trump told the ministers,
adding that the next presi-
dent could get to nominate
up to five high court jus-
tices. “It could cost us the
Supreme Court.â€
After trouncing 16 chal-
lengers in the Republican
primary, Trump is encoun-
tering worrying signs as his
campaign moves into the
general election. Demo-
crat Hillary Clinton’s lead
over Trump in national polls
has widened in recent
days, while a number of
fellow Republicans have
declared they won’t sup-
port their own party’s presi-
dential nominee.
Trump’s exercise in self-
awareness was a marked
departure from his usual
tenor on the campaign
trail, where for months
at rallies he would tick