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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,”
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.”
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
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