Donald Trump is a "guy who fights back," and his early morning Twitter storm against Hillary Clinton and former Miss Universe Alicia Machado is further proof of that, Republican National Commission chief strategist and communications director Sean Spicer said Friday.
"When he takes a punch, he punches back," Spicer told Fox News' "America's Newsroom" program. "That's the kind of leader he wants to talk about being. He says we are not going to sit back and take other countries coming in and take our jobs. We'll stand up for our people and for our workers."
Further, said Spicer, Trump is "not going to be politically correct, he's going to fight for American workers and American families. He has to present himself until a contrast with Hillary Clinton."
Spicer also responded to reports that Clinton could win the presidential race, even if she doesn't win in Ohio, saying that Trump has resonated well in the state, and is "resonating with a message of jobs and the economy first."
The Trump campaign is also putting states like Nevada, Pennsylvania, Iowa and more, into play where President Barack Obama carried, and registering new voters.
"We launched something called vote.gop," Spicer said. "You can register to vote. You go to sign up, you tell them your address and it tells you whether you are registered to vote. If you aren't, it asks if you want an absentee ballot . . .
"We have gone out since the debate and found 300,000 people who have requested an absentee ballot and registered to vote. That's how we can expand that map, if they are registered to vote, do they want an absentee ballot."
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