Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is belatedly endorsing the country’s top Republicans for political office, following surveys of American voters this week that show he is falling behind Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

The latest opinion poll released late Friday showed Clinton’s lead over Trump narrowed to less than three percentage points, a drop from eight points that the same poll showed on Monday last week. However other surveys in recent days have shown Clinton leading the Republican nominee by a margin of 48 percent to 33 percent, which led some pollsters to say that Trump’s campaign appears to be in jeopardy.

Donald Trump endorsed the re-elections of House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senators John McCain and Kelly Ayotte on Friday. That came just days after Trump said he was not “quite there yet” to endorse Ryan, one of the country’s top elected Republicans. Since the Republican convention, Trump’s tensions with top Republican leaders and his ongoing feud with the parents of a slain Muslim American soldier were seen to be damaging to his public support.

On Saturday, Trump re-directed his attention on Hillary Clinton, criticizing her over the private email server she used while secretary of state, which was the focus of an FBI inquiry.

Clinton revisited her remarks in a public appearance before black and Hispanic journalists on Friday, the first time she has taken questions from reporters in public in months. Clinton has claimed the FBI director said her statements on the subject have been “truthful.” However critics have said she has mischaracterized remarks of the director, who only testified that she did not lie to FBI investigators. Clinton explained the discrepancies in her answers as a “short circuit.”   

Trump tweeted Saturday that “anybody whose mind ‘short circuits’ is not fit to be our president!”
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