Trump campaign gains complicated by internal struggles

Even as the presumptive GOP nominee continues to add new staff in the wake of campaign manager Corey Lewandowski's high-profile firing, one of those new hires fled the campaign just weeks after joining reportedly citing campaign dysfunction. That surprising departure underscores the issues the Trump campaign faces as he continues to risk being outgunned by presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton Trump campaign gains complicated by internal struggles Criminal sentencing bill tests McConnell-Grassley relationship Trump, Clinton struggle to take advantage of other's failures MORE "It seems like even when he tries to take two steps forward, he then immediately takes three steps back," GOP strategist Matt Mackowiak said.

Clinton: Atlantic City proves Trump’s no great businessman

Standing on Atlantic City's famed Boardwalk, Hillary Clinton ripped Donald Trump as a "shameful" businessman who contributed to the decline of the oceanfront resort town and would be just as disastrous for America's workers as president. "What he did here in Atlantic City is exactly what he'll do if he wins in November," Clinton warned on Wednesday, the faded facade of Trump Plaza, a shuttered hotel formerly owned by the presumptive Republican nominee, just over her shoulder.

Appearing with Clinton in N.C., Obama says hea s ready to a pass the batona

Democratic presumptive nominee campaigns with President Obama at a rally in Charlotte, N.C., on Tuesday. CHARLOTTE - President Obama made his debut on the campaign trail Tuesday for Hillary Clinton, declaring himself "ready to pass the baton" during a boisterous rally in this battleground state on a politically challenging day for his preferred successor.

Trump’s Top Foreign Policy Adviser Says Muslim Ban Is Just An Effort To Provoke ‘Debate’

In this July 1, 2016, photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump points to supporters during the opening session of the Western Conservative Summit in Denver. Donald Trump does not specifically pick out communities to demonize, his lead foreign policy adviser said in an exclusive interview published Monday by the right-wing news outlet the Daily Caller.

Trump needs NC evangelicals. But will they back him?

Donald Trump has been stepping up his courtship of conservative Christians, meeting last month in New York with 1,000 leaders of the religious right and naming an "evangelical executive advisory board." But while some evangelicals are ready to embrace the thrice-married business tycoon as a "lesser evil" than Democrat Hillary Clinton, many other conservative churchgoers are keeping their distance and may not vote for president at all this year.

Libertarian nominee: Trump says ‘racist’ things

Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson said Donald Trump says "racist" things and should be disqualified from becoming president for saying that he is "looking at" replacing employees of the Transportation Security Administration who are Muslim and wear hijabs. "He has said 100 things that would disqualify anyone else from running for president but doesn't seem to affect him," he told CNN's Brianna Keilar in an interview aired Sunday on "State of the Union."

Patrick Buchanan: Why Trump is routing the free traders

In Tuesday's indictment of free trade as virtual economic treason, The Donald has really set the cat down among the pigeons. For, in denouncing NAFTA, the WTO, MFN for China and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, all backed by Bush I and II, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, Trump is all but calling his own party leaders dunderheads and losers.

Trump looks to unlikely speakers for convention help

Donald Trump is turning to his family, sports figures and business leaders to fill speaking slots at the Republican National Convention later this month as scores of prominent Republican leaders continue to refuse to line up behind their controversial nominee-to-be. Trump announced Friday that his wife and children "are all going to be speaking" at the nominating convention that kicks off in just over two weeks.

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Isaac Lee: Trump has ‘gone too far’ to regain Hispanic vote

Donald Trump has doomed his candidacy by promoting a "speech of hate and divisiveness," irrevocably alienating himself from the vast majority of Hispanic voters, according to one of America's top Hispanic news executives. Isaac Lee, president of news and digital for Univision, the nation's leading Spanish-language network, says a series of slights, from Trump's negative characterization of immigrants and repeated pledge to build a wall on the border to his recent attacks on a federal judge of Mexican descent, have made him an unacceptable choice for voters who will play a key role in several battleground states this fall.

Mia Love skipping GOP convention

Utah Rep. Mia Love, a rising star in the Republican Party, says she's planning to skip next month's Republican National Convention. Love adds her name to other prominent Republicans -- like former presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush and former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney -- who say they won't attend the Cleveland convention where Donald Trump is expected to officially become the Republican presidential nominee.