Story highlights Trump said his campaign has "never been so well united"

Trump then served up the red meat and comic indignation that his rowdy supporters expected

Daytona Beach, Florida (CNN) For the first 11 minutes of his rally here on Wednesday, Donald Trump sounded like the candidate his campaign advisers and top Republican Party officials wish he would be more often.

After quickly dispatching reports of disarray within his campaign by vowing his organization has "never been so well united," the Republican nominee turned to slamming President Barack Obama and the Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, over a report that the US shipped $400 million to Iran at about the same time Iran released four American prisoners.

"America's been humiliated in so many different ways," proclaimed Trump, who rallied his supporters as usual without a teleprompter, although he did appear to glance at notes on his podium.

For several minutes more, he stayed on message, turning the report about the cash flight to Iran into a broader condemnation of Obama and Clinton's foreign policies -- from Clinton's advocacy for the military intervention in Libya to the dangers of the nuclear deal with Iran.

And then, Trump went back to being Trump -- the same candidate who in recent days has set off a panic in his party's highest ranks after he repeatedly knocked himself off message by unceremoniously escalating a feud with the family of a deceased Muslim-American soldier and refusing to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan , the top-ranking elected Republican in Washington.

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