‘There is no new Donald Trump – this is it, ‘ Clinton said, substituting the news of the day into a section of her stump speech where she routinely attacks Trump as unfit for office.
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Steve Bannon – who runs the conservative website Breitbart News, which routinely bashes the GOP establishment and employs nationalist and anti-immigration rhetoric – is now chief executive officer of the campaign.
In Cleveland on Wednesday, Clinton blasted Trump’s campaign shake-up as well. Conway also has ties to the Mercers.
She added: “There is no new Donald Trump, this is it”.
It offers Trump’s team a chance to return to the “let Trump be Trump” style practiced by former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski in winning the Republican presidential nomination for the November 8 election.
After Cruz dropped out of the race, Conway moved over to Trump’s campaign as a senior adviser and pollster. Trump attempted to put those fears to rest on Wednesday.
“I didn’t. If I did, I would have been less controversial”, he said.
But an aggravating factor in doing that will be Trump’s reported decision to seek advice from Roger Ailes, the former Fox News chairman who was recently removed from the company amid lurid allegations of sexism and workplace harassment by as many as 20 women.
Lewandowski was ultimately fired with the help of Trump’s adult children, who believed the campaign manager was trying to spread negative stories about Kushner.
Bannon has circled Trump’s orbit in recent years and has been in touch with aides to the billionaire throughout the campaign. It ranked No. 1 in Facebook and Twitter engagement on political content in May and June, with more than 9 million interactions over that two-month period, far outstripping both conservative and liberal rivals and mainstream news sites. “If he is going to go down, he is going to go down being Trump and that’s probably what Steve Bannon is telling him to do”. But as with numerous former reality TV personality’s so-called “pivots”, this new, measured style is unlikely to last.
Trump, who is trailing Clinton in opinion polls, brought in Stephen Bannon, the executive chairman of the conservative website Breitbart. He is known for a pugilistic style that dovetails with Trump’s brash temperament but it may clash with Trump’s purported efforts to display a more presidential temperament.
In that regard, Bannon’s Breitbart is very much like Trump himself: Combative and unapologetic.
It was another unexpected move from the Republican nominee who during his presidential campaign has vowed to ban Muslim immigrants and erect a wall to prevent Mexican immigration. Bannon urged the impulsive, angry presidential nominee to ignore people who wanted him to tone it down, according to The Washington Post.
Breitbart News, which was founded in 2007 by the late Andrew Breitbart, has in 2016 became a reliably pro-Trump network that views journalism more as partisan warfare than public good. “Anybody who was on the bandwagon, Donald Trump has just given you the greatest gift and a warning: It’s going to get ugly and now is the time to jump ship”.
Meadows added, “I think an anti establishment campaign is just want the doctor ordered – whether in North Carolina, California, or IL”.
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“The more competitive you can make the presidential race, the more it’s going to help down-ballot races”, said Ian Prior, spokesman for outside groups linked to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, which have already spent almost $30 million on Senate races with another $40 million reserved for the fall. I mean, you have to be you.
