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<p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="295" data-total-count="295">After months of flailing attempts, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/elections/donald-trump-on-the-issues.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Donald J. Trump." class="meta-per">Donald J. Trump</a> has begun to recast his political message in more structured terms and wrestle with his temptation to go off script, as his campaign seeks to revive his fading candidacy and turn the focus this fall to Hillary Clinton’s honesty and integrity.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="474" data-total-count="769">Working off a script from his reshuffled team of advisers, Mr. Trump is also drastically tempering his language about the signature issue of his campaign: immigration. After winning the Republican nomination on a promise to deport all 11 million immigrants who are in the United States illegally, he indicated on Wednesday night that he was considering allowing some to stay if they had lived in the United States for many years, lacked criminal records and paid back taxes.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="223" data-total-count="992">“We are going to come out with a decision very soon,” he said on Fox News, signaling flexibility on an issue that sharply divides undecided voters. He is expected to deliver a speech on immigration next week in Phoenix.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="363" data-total-count="1355">Mr. Trump is also spending far less time attacking his fellow Republicans and picking fights with people other than Mrs. Clinton, instead hammering away at her State Department tenure and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/us/politics/hillary-clinton-presidential-campaign-charity.html" title="Times article.">her family’s charitable foundation</a>. And he is aligning his stump speeches with his television advertising, vowing to crack down on violent crime and improve border security.</p><div id="story-ad-1" class="story-ad ad ad-placeholder nocontent robots-nocontent">
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