Trump Drops In Polls, Denies Division In His Campaign
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MIAMI (CBSMiami) -- With less than 100 days to go until election day, Donald Trump is moving in the wrong direction in the polls.
The latest poll numbers show the Republican nominee losing ground in key battleground states. All this amid reports of division within his campaign.
Meantime, Trump says reports of chaos within his campaign are completely false.
"I have to say our campaign is doing so nicely," said Trump.
Just this week, Trump has attacked the family of a U.S. Army Captain killed in combat and denied Russia's military involvement in Ukraine. He also said his daughter Ivanka Trump should quit if she was harassed at work and refused to endorse leading Republicans in Congress.
He has also lost the support of other prominent Republicans.
"Nobody's ever seen anything like this. It's a one-man band. It's not a real campaign," said a former adviser to the Mitt Romney/ Paul Ryan Campaign Dan Senor.
"In the last couple of weeks, he has been remarkably underperforming. We'll see whether or not he can take a deep breath and learn from these lessons," said Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich during a Fox Business interview.
Clinton now has a 10-point lead in a national poll from Fox News but perhaps what's more troubling for the Trump campaign is what's happening in the swing states.
In Florida, Clinton now has a 6-point lead over Trump coming out of the Democratic convention. She has a nine-point advantage in Michigan - part of the industrial Midwest - where Trump has poured in a lot of resources.
In New Hampshire, Trump had a two-point lead in May. He's now at a 15-point deficit.
"We're not planning on winning in August. We're planning on winning in November," said Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort. "In another week or so, the polls are going to even out. We always thought that. "
Meanwhile, Clinton is going after the one area Trump leads her in the polls - the economy - pointing out that the businessman already outsources jobs to make his neckties and other Trump products.
Clinton will continue to focus on the economy on Thursday when she unveils her plan for a new apprenticeship program while campaigning at an electric company in Nevada.
