Trump Adviser: Candidate Will Soften His Stance On Muslim Ban

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Paul Manafort, a top adviser to Donald Trump, told the Huffington Post in an interview published Wednesday night that the Republican presidential candidate will gradually soften his stance on a ban on Muslims traveling to the United States.

“He’s already started moderating on that,” Manafort said. “He operates by starting the conversation at the outer edges and then brings it back towards the middle. Within his comfort zone, he’ll soften it some more.”

“He’ll still end up outside of the norm, but in line with what the American people are thinking,” he added.

Trump proposed barring Muslims from entering the country last year, but earlier in May, he said that the ban was “just a suggestion.”

Manafort told the Huffington Post that he is confident Trump will win the presidency.

“He gonna win unless we — meaning people like me — screw it up. This is not a hard race,” he said.

He added that Trump will win without changing his tactics very much.

“You don’t change Donald Trump,” Manafort told the Huffington Post. “You don’t ‘manage’ him.”

The top adviser also dismissed Trump’s problems winning over women and Latino voters.

“Hillary is the one who’s got a gender gap. And while we are behind among women over all, we’re ahead among white women even now. We’ll get some black and Hispanic women as we go along,” he said.

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  1. Outside the norm, but in line with what Americans are thinking.

    Wow.

  2. Trump: As I evolve in my thinking in next few weeks, I would be where Obama is on virtually every issue.

  3. Americans are not normal, they are exceptional.

  4. Whistling past the graveyard, are we? Romney lost women by 10 points and was defeated. Trump is on track to lose women by nearly 40 points. Considering women are 53% of the electorate, that would be a heller of a stompdown. That would lead to a defeat not seen since 1964, perhaps worse.

  5. There will be no Muslim ban, no mass deportations, no wall that Mexico will pay for, no self financing. The guy is total fraud. The weird part is everyone knows it and millions still support him.

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