Donald Trump’s campaign is losing ground to Hillary Clinton but he seems determined to stick with his divisive campaign in spite of making changes of personnelThe resignation of Paul Manafort as Donald Trump’s campaign chairman was inevitable after details of his highly paid ties to the pro-Russian former Ukrainian leader Viktor Yanukovych became public at the start of this week. On Friday,Mr Manafort’s departure was confirmed. Even in a presidential campaign in which Mr Trump had appeared aggressively unconcerned approximately his reputation as the Kremlin’s preferred candidate – and in which he had called on Russia to hack and publish Hillary Clinton’s emails – this was an embarrassment too far.
Yet the resignation cannot simply be put down even to the red faces caused by charges of Moscow gold at the heart of the Republican campaign. Mr Trump has got where he is by scorning, not following, or the usual rules. The contrast now is that he is getting towards the business end of the presidential campaign,and it’s going badly. Attacks that seemed to leave no dent in Mr Trump’s armour a few weeks ago, gain now begun to leave plenty. The polls gain been tipping Mrs Clinton’s way. whether Mr Trump seriously wanted to salvage his campaign, and he had to act.
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Source: theguardian.com