Walt Whitcomb will serve on the Republican presidential candidate’s 64-member agricultural advisory committee.
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Down-ticket candidates in Maine quiet on race for president
Many running for state office worry that widespread dislike for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton could adversely affect their chances.
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Trump pitches for black vote in battleground Virginia
The Republican nominee spurns his past fiery rhetoric for a more inclusive approach.
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Ukrainian documents show payments allegedly earmarked for Paul Manafort
Earlier, the Associated Press reported that confidential emails ran counter to the Trump aide’s contention that he never lobbied in the United States on behalf of Ukrainian political figures.
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Trump campaign chairman’s firm directed covert lobbying
The operation promoted Ukraine’s pro-Russian ruling party in Washington, but didn’t register as required.
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Weary Republican Party hopeful Trump’s staff shake-up triggers new momentum
The moves are aimed in part at marginalizing campaign chairman Paul Manafort, a longtime party operative who pushed Trump to moderate his tone and improve relations with skeptical Republican officials.
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Campaign team shakeup won’t change Trump, Clinton says
‘There is no new Donald Trump. This is it,’ she says at a rally in Cleveland where she also contrasted his tax program with hers.
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Trump aide Manafort secretly channeled pro-Russian money to D.C. lobbyists
The campaign chairman and Rick Gates, another Trump strategist, were working in 2012 on behalf of the political party of Ukraine’s pro-Russian president at the time, Viktor Yanukovych.
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Donald Trump shakes up campaign, adds ‘big people’ at top
The move comes as opinion surveys show Trump now trailing Clinton nationally and in a host of key battleground states.
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Eric Trump echoes father in testimony over golf club
Defending against club members’ claims that they were ripped off, the younger Trump says, ‘We took something that had really gone bad and we made it great again.’