GOP senator: Trump campaign back on track

Donald Trump’s campaign is back on track after being derailed by a series of controversies in the last few weeks, one of his chief supporters in the Senate said Saturday. 

{mosads}”Trump went through a tremendously damaging pounding for the last 10 days or two weeks after the Democratic convention,” said Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) while speaking in Alabama, according to al.com. “He’s back on the right track.

“They’re throwing spears and clubs and rocks and bricks and everything at him they can to knock him down. And he’s not down. His poll numbers are coming back up again and they’re going to keep coming up,” Sessions said.

He also called Trump’s new campaign manager, pollster Kellyanne Conway, a “great political thinker.” 

In the days since the campaign revamp, which also saw the addition of Breitbart executive Steve Bannon and the departure of Paul Manafort, Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, has delivered several scripted speeches, including at his normally free-wheeling rallies. 

Trump came under heavy criticism in the weeks following the Democratic National Convention for his attacks on the Muslim family of a U.S. soldier killed in Iraq and for calling President Obama the “founder” of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. 

Trump hasn’t led in a national poll since July. The current RealClearPolitics average of polls puts Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton up by more than 5 points.