Executive vice president of the Trump organization and special council to Donald Trump, Michael Cohen, appeared on CNN on Wednesday afternoon and attempted to defend the campaign when the subject of its slipping poll numbers came up.
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“Says who?” a perplexed Cohen responds.
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On Wednesday, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump hired the head of Breitbart News, Stephen Bannon, as his new campaign chief executive. “There’s no shake-up. Look at the words that you use and you blast at the bottom in your banner”, he said on CNN’s “Situation Room”.
Keilar: “Well let me ask you about this – so you say it’s not a shake up, but you guys are down”.
“Says who?” he said.
“Okay, which polls?” Cohen said.
For 30 awkward seconds, she made Cohen squirm as he questioned whether Trump’s campaign has actually been crashing in the polls over the past few weeks.
BK: Polls. I just told you.
This marks Trump’s third campaign manager in three months.
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Cohen continued to ask Keilar which polls showed Trump losing to Clinton.
