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This is the best week of campaign:Trump's new campaign manager

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Donald Trump's new campaign manager today praised the Republican presidential candidate, saying that "this is the best week of the campaign", as he delivered some of his impressive speeches during the period.

"This is the best week, I think, so far in the Trump campaign, mostly because he's able to be himself, the authentic Donald Trump. But also the pivot that he's made is on substance," Kellyanne Conway, the new Trump Campaign Manager told ABC News in talk show.

Conway said this week, Trump laid out specific policy plans in various fields.

"People can disagree with them. They're welcome to. But at least they can see them. They can pull up his plan for middle class tax reflect," she said.
 

"They can say, hey, this guy said we've had 33,000 murders by ISIS and its predecessor groups since 2003 or so, 80 per cent of them having occurred in the last three years since the birth and growth of ISIS happened. He's at least willing to call them radical terrorists," she said.

"Ms Clinton in her convention speech just last month referred to them as our determined enemies. She'll call Donald Trump a radical. She just won't call the terrorists radicals," she noted.

The new campaign manager said Trump this week expressed his regret for having chosen wrong words.

"But this is exactly what people love. They love humility. They love accessibility. They love authenticity. And I'm just amazed that the Hillary team has responded in yet another attack on Donald Trump," she said.

"When are we going hear how she really feels about Aetna and United Health Care pulling out of the Obama Care exchanges, reporting billions of dollars in losses? Obama Care is still seen very unfavourably by many Americans. Is she going to own it?" she asked.

Conway said that the rival Hillary Campaign want this to all be about tone and temperament.

"We also want to it be about facts and figures because that's the only way you rebuild the American economy, you unleash energy independence. You frankly get a hold of the disaster that has been ObamaCare," she argued.

"So we want to take that case directly to the people that facts don't like and the fact that he's going places where other Republican candidates have been unwilling or unable to do is pretty remarkable," Conway said.

According to Conwayr, Trump has started preparing for the three presidential debates.

"What we're doing right now is we're talking about all the particular logistics about the debates. We are also doing debate prep. We are doing that in many different ways," she said.

"But he's very engaged with that. It's actually a very enjoyable pursuit for him. He's a natural communicator, a natural connector with people. The debates are a fabulous opportunity to force a conversation onto substance. What I learned this week -- we had a great week, the best week so far," she said.

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First Published: Aug 21 2016 | 10:22 PM IST

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