Donald Trump
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“Well, possibly I do, but you know, I am who I am,” he told News 8 reporter Brittany Schmidt when asked whether he needs to change tactics before November as recent polls show him behind Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton
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"You have to be you. If you start pivoting, you’re not being honest with people. No, I am who I am.”
Trump said critics had inaccurately predicted the failure of his Oval Office bid several times during the GOP primaries.
“Don’t forget, when I lost Wisconsin, it was over for Trump,” he said. "Except for one problem: I then went on a very good run."
“I’ve gotten here in a landslide,” the Republican nominee added. "So we’ll see what happens. I am who I am.”
Trump, who lost Wisconsin’s GOP presidential primary to Sen. Ted Cruz
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“I think we’ll do well here,” he said. "I understand what I’m up against. I have many friends in Wisconsin [and] they’re the ones who ask me to come here.
“It’s been a long time since anybody won Wisconsin. I believe that was [former President] Ronald Reagan. That’s a long time, in terms of a Republican.”
Multiple GOP lawmakers and strategists have expressed gloom over Trump’s chances of winning the White House amid his falling poll numbers.
Clinton leads Trump by about 9 points in Wisconsin, for example, according to the latest RealClearPolitics average of polls in the state. She holds a lead of approximately 7 points nationally in the same index.
