US election countdown: Trump attempts a presidential pivot

Political Fix

Financial Times

News, Politics, News & Politics

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🗓️ 23 June 2016

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump showed signs of a shift in campaign strategy this week, firing his embattled campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, and delivering a striking but carefully crafted speech attacking Hillary Clinton. The FT's Courtney Weaver and Demetri Sevastopulo discuss whether the scripted candidate is here to stay and more.

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0:25.0	I'm Courtney Weaver the F.T. is U.S.
0:26.0	election countdown podcast.
0:28.0	I'm Courtney Weaver, the F.T. is U.S. politics
0:30.0	correspondent and I'm here with Dimitri Sevestopolo.
0:32.0	Back from his two-week vacation, which I think was his first vacation in about a year.
0:37.0	Welcome back to Dimitri.
0:39.0	It's great to be back and I can see that nothing has changed.
0:41.0	Donald Trump is still dominating the
0:43.2	conversation I guess that's what we're going to be talking about today.
0:45.6	Exactly exactly so it's been quite a week not a quiet week back.
0:49.2	Trump on Monday fired his long in-balled campaign manager.
0:54.0	We've had some fundraising numbers that have raised questions about the Trump campaign,
0:58.0	big speeches from Trump and Clinton.
1:00.0	So to kick it off, let's look at the fundraising numbers.
1:03.2	We had new Federal Election Commission fundraising numbers on Monday,
1:06.5	which show that Clinton has vastly outraised Trump so far.
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