from The Gray Area: Donald Trump did not have a good August. He stumbled on several rather easy items, The Khan Family, the Second Amendment comment and fueling Hillary and Obama attacks on his temperment, all causing him to lose his short lived lead in the polls following the Republican Convention. He changed his campaign leadership team and since then has been trying to develop a strategy to come back in the final 60 days. He gave a good economic speech in Detroit, met with Hispanic leaders about immigration, and he asked the black community a question Republicans have been to scared to approach, why are you still voting Democrat? This stopped the slide. The opticsaround his campaign began to look better. Wednesday, with his trip to meet Mexican President Peña Nieto and his immigration policy speech in Arizona, he may have turned the campaign around. In Mexico, he looked and acted the part of a President. He was confident, respectful, open to listen to the other side and did not try to do too much. He not only talked about immigration, but added drugs and trade as topics of interest to both parties. He described the Mexican President as "a man who truly loves his country, Mexico. And, by the way, just like I am a man who loves my country, the United States. We agree on the importance of ending the illegal flow of drugs, cash, guns, and people across our border, and to put the cartels out of business." In his immigration speech, he put specific plans in bullet point fashion to answer anyone's questions about what he plans to do. Politicians never provide this kind of specificity because they can be held to it. Business leaders always present these kind of plans, because their employees and financiers require it and will hold them accountable if they do not deliver. This we should also expect from our political leaders and candidates for political office - and we must begin to hold them accountable to deliver. We are approaching $20 trillion in dent because we have not held the previous individual members of Congress and President's accountable. Trump's actions on Wednesday confound the left. They don't get it. How can you make progress if you don't give things away, they believe. How can you ask difficult questions of another leader and expect them to respond? Whether it is Donald Trump yesterday, Ronald Reagan with the Soviet Union in the 1980s, or George W. after 9-11, the left gets scared when you have to put on your "big boy (or girl)" pants and face an adversary or a difficult issue. Some people are saying that Mr. Trump is sending conflicting signals, that "the juxtaposition of Mr. Trump’s dual performances was so jarring that his true vision and intentions on immigration were hard to discern." Some people are saying the Republican candidate said he and Mr. Pena Nieto didn’t talk about who would pay for a proposed border wall; Mr. Peña Nieto, however, said it won’t be Mexico. Mr. Trump is obviously lying they say. All this is coming from his opposition who are trying to dampen his success on Wednesday. Pena Nieto agreed they did not discuss the issue, and he clarified that he said Mexico would not pay, and Trump did not react. It is clear Mr Trump was not going to negotiate that point on this trip, so he left it on the table. That's it. No lie. A strategic, negotiating move. Trump called the barrier “a shared objective.” This is what you expect from someone who is trying to accomplish something important. Anyone trying to call this a lie is viewing it from their strategic playbook which means they will lie in that situation. What you would expect from Hillary and her campaign. To those same people who are saying that Mr Trump's immigration plan keeps changing and he said different things in Arizona than he did earlier in the day in Mexico, here are the points he presented in Arizona:

• He will build the wall and Mexico will pay for it.

• He will end "catch & release"

• “We will break the cycle of amnesty and illegal immigration. There will be no amnesty,”

• “Our message to the world will be this: you cannot obtain legal status or become a citizen of the U.S. by illegally entering our country.”

• End funding for sanctuary cities

• All illegal immigrants are “subject to deportation” and all those seeking legalization would have to go home and re-enter the country legally.

• He would jettison protections and executive actions President Barack Obama has sought for parents of legal U.S. citizens

• On his first day in office, deport 2 million illegal immigrants he said have criminal records.

• He also said he would, without due process, remove any undocumented person who is arrested for any crime.

• He would install “new screening tests” that he said would “include an ideological certification.” He also said he would complete a “biometric entry-exit visa tracking system.”

• he would add 5,000 border patrol officers.

What changed?. Nothing different from the day he first spoke on the subject. Yet more specifics, after a more thorough review with stakeholders on the issue. Smart. His supporters said things like, "A President was born on Wednesday". And even his ardent Republican "never Trumpers" were moved to say as Bill Kristol did, "people are kidding themselves if they don't see that today was a good day for Trump". Transcript: Donald Trump's full immigration speech More From The Wall Street Journal: