Trump allies ratchet up pressure to refocus message and increase campaigning intensity

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

83% : Trump, the man, is the campaign's best asset.
81% : But Republicans see an opportunity for Trump to recapture the enthusiasm of just a few weeks ago, including over the prospect of focusing on Harris' record.
59% : Trump campaigned for Montana Senate hopeful Tim Sheehy in Bozeman on Friday and has just one campaign rally this week in Asheville, North Carolina -- a state he won in 2020 and 2016 and is considered on the cusp of being a swing state.
54% : Trump has one additional coming swing state event that has been publicly announced in Pennsylvania.
49% : "Trump and his campaign have been eager to show him outpacing Harris in other ways, noting that she has yet to sit for an interview with reporters since she took over the Democratic Party's nomination.
47% : "Immediately after the Democrat convention closes, I would like to see the gloves come off in a full-throated campaign for Trump.
42% : "This was a TRUMP idea -- She has no ideas, she can only steal from me," Trump wrote on Truth Social.
41% : Put him out there," said Dan Eberhart, a major Republican donor who backs Trump.
38% : Any respite Democrats have enjoyed will not last, Trump said at Mar-a-Lago: "The honeymoon period is going to end.
37% : "She doesn't want to do interviews, and the reason she doesn't is, No. 1, her policies are so bad," he said.
35% : Privately, Trump indicated to allies that he may have little choice but to participate in the ABC News debate if Harris declined other counteroffers because "he has to get her to speak," according to a source familiar with his comments.
30% : Some feedback has been private, with lawmakers, donors and informal outside advisers asking Trump and top campaign aides directly to stick to the issues and drop the race- or personality-driven attacks, according to four sources briefed on the discussions.
28% : Harris is also working aggressively to define herself on issues meaningful to voters before Trump and Republicans can -- including at a rally Saturday in Las Vegas, where she went so far as to endorse an idea Trump has been pushing, eliminating taxes on tips.
27% : Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., went on Fox News on Monday during a program Trump is known to watch and urged him to stop questioning the size of Harris' crowds and instead probe her positions on the border, crime and inflation.
22% : A recent national poll by CNBC found Trump and Harris tied -- a sign that her upward trajectory may have at least slowed.
21% : Lawmakers, donors and informal outside advisers have been asking Trump and top campaign aides to abandon the race-focused attacks on Harris.
21% : "At a news conference last week at Mar-a-Lago, his home in Florida, Trump said he was not on the campaign trail because he is leading in the race -- even as recent polls find Harris closing the advantage he held over Biden.
19% : Trump defended his pace, saying he is "competing a lot" and calling the question "stupid."
14% : "The hope is that Trump will shift his focus after a stretch of days when he questioned Harris' racial identity in an interview at a conference for Black journalists, offered unfounded conspiracy theories about President Joe Biden's decision to step away from the race and criticized Brian Kemp, the popular Republican governor of Georgia, a key state where Trump's campaign has ramped up ad purchases.
13% : The move, after Harris delivered a tough-on-immigration message a day earlier in Arizona, seemed to incense Trump and his campaign, who accused her of "shape-shifting" her positions to "gaslight" voters.
10% : Trump argued that Harris is not ready to have her agenda scrutinized.

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