Chuck Todd and Hallie Jackson of NBC News report that allies of Donald Trump are planning a “candidate intervention” to convince the Republican nominee for president that his campaign needs an overhaul.
From NBC News Wednesday morning:
The news comes the morning after CNBC’s John Harwood reported that the campaign staff say they are “suicidal” and that Trump’s campaign manager Paul Manafort has “lost control” of the candidate.
“Manafort not challenging (Trump) anymore,” a source and Manafort ally in the campaign told Harwood. “Mailing it in. Staff suicidal.”
Harwood reported the Trump campaign pushed back immediately:
The apparent turmoil follows a string of unforced political errors from Trump in the last few weeks, including but not limited to: his revival of a conspiracy theory about Ted Cruz’s father; his suggestion that the United States would not aid its NATO allies if invaded by Russia; his encouragement of Russian-backed hackers to commit espionage against his political opponent, Hillary Clinton; his criticism of the parents of a fallen soldier, Humayun Khan, who spoke out against Trump at the DNC; his suggestion that he, too, had made sacrifices like the Khans because he has created jobs; his assertion that if he had been president in 2004, when Khan was killed, would still be alive because he would not have invaded Iraq; his insinuation that the organizers of the presidential debates were deliberately trying to hurt him by scheduling debates against National Football League games; his attempt to delegitimize the political system by suggesting the presidential election will be “rigged” against him; and his refusal to endorse sitting Republican senators and the Republican Speaker of the House.
