AKRON – A supposedly “disciplined” and more “mature” Donald Trump is returning to northeast Ohio for another campaign rally.
The Monday night rally at the University of Akron marks the Republican presidential nominee’s first visit to Akron, after being nominated at the GOP convention in Cleveland and made a campaign stop last week in Youngstown, another northeast Ohio city.
Polls now mostly show Trump lagging Clinton by 5 percentage points or more nationally but Republican officials insist presidential nominee Donald Trump is finally hitting his stride and will catch up with Democrat Hillary Clinton.
Party chairman Reince Priebus said Sunday that “Donald Trump has been disciplined and mature. And I think he’s going to get this thing back on track.”
Clinton campaign officials have dismissed the idea of a changed Trump as nonsense.
For his part, Trump is calling on the Clintons to shut down their charitable foundation “immediately.”
Trump says in a statement Monday morning that “the Clinton Foundation is the most corrupt enterprise in political history.”
He says, “It must be shut down immediately.”
The foundation announced recently that it will not accept donations from foreign contributors if Hillary Clinton is elected president.