“He has said that he wants to regret anytime he caused someone personal pain by saying something that he didn't intend to cause personal pain,” Kellyanne Conway said. | AP Photo Has Trump caused you pain? He regrets it.

Kellyanne Conway, Donald Trump’s new campaign manager, on Sunday struggled to explain what exactly the Republican presidential nominee meant when he expressed regret last week for some of his past statements.

Trump did not specify which of his many controversial statements he regrets, and neither would his campaign manager when pressed during an appearance on ABC News’ "This Week With George Stephanopoulos."


“He has said that he wants to regret anytime he caused someone personal pain by saying something that he didn't intend to cause personal pain,” Kellyanne Conway said.

Stephanopoulos asked whether that meant Trump had reached out personally to anybody — including Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) or Khizr Khan — to apologize.

“No,” Conway said. “He has expressed his regret publicly and said if I have caused you personal pain — that can include me, that can include you — that he regrets that. And that's the Donald Trump that I know.”

She continued: “This is exactly what people love. They love humility. They love accessibility. They love authenticity.”

In dueling appearances, Conway and the campaign manager for Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, Robby Mook, sparred over whether the Trump campaign had made a “pivot.”

“This was the best week, I think, so far in the Trump campaign,” Conway said to Stephanopoulos. “The pivot that he's made is on substance, George. He's out there talking about law enforcement, he's talking about defeating radical Islamic terrorism, middle-class tax relief.”

Mook had a different take.

“We’re not seeing a pivot,” he said later on the same Sunday morning show. “Donald Trump himself said this was not a pivot. That’s why he’s brought in to run his campaign someone who ran a so-called news organization, Breitbart News, which has peddled some of the worst conspiracy theories around.”