Donald Trump has promised to change his image, in a closed-door meeting
with Republican party leaders.
The businessman, who leads the party's race to be presidential nominee,
delivered his message via aides, the Associated Press news agency reports.
His success in primary elections so far has set off alarm bells among those
in the party anxious that his tone and policies will turn off voters.
Five states go to the polls on Tuesday to pick their presidential
candidates.
Mr Trump has a clear lead in the number of delegates but may fall short of
the 1,237 threshold required to win the nomination without a contested
convention - where the nominee is chosen through negotiations among party
figures.
In a recording of Thursday's meeting obtained by Associated Press, his
senior aides told Republican leaders that he has been "projecting an
image" so far and "the part that he's been playing is now
evolving".
In it, his newly hired senior aide, Paul Manafort, told the Republican
National Committee members that Mr Trump has a campaigning personality and a
private one.
"When he's out on the stage, when he's talking about the kinds of
things he's talking about on the stump, he's projecting an image that's for
that purpose," he said.
He knows he needs to moderate his personality, Mr Manafort told the
meeting. "The negatives [unfavourable ratings in polls] will come down.
The image is going to change."
His
standing among female voters is particularly low, after a series of
controversial remarks about women, abortion and rival Ted Cruz's wife.
Analysts say Mr Trump's decisive win in the New York primary this week
seemed to signal a new, softer side in his victory speech.
And he told a rally in Pennsylvania on Thursday: "At some point, I'm
going to be so presidential that you people will be so bored."
On one of the key social issues currently engulfing the party, transgender
rights, he took a stance out of step with his key rival Mr Cruz on Thursday,
when he said transgender people should be allowed to use a toilet assigned to a
gender of their choosing.
Mr Cruz criticised this as politically correct but former 106 candidate Ben
Carson praised Mr Trump for "trying to moderate".
Mr Trump has accused the RNC of conspiring against him and of rigging the
way delegates are awarded in a way that is unfavourable to him.
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