“We absolutely expect for Donald Trump and the campaign to double down on more hateful divisive rhetoric, more conspiracy theories”, Mook said.
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The billionaire real estate mogul named Stephen Bannon of the conservative Breitbart News website as chief executive officer and promoted pollster Kellyanne Conway to campaign manager. Kellyanne Conway, a Republican pollster and familiar face on panels of political pundits, will become campaign manager. His mission has been to take on the establishment regardless of political party.
Following consistently losing poll numbers and revelations that his campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, helped a Ukrainian pro-Russian group secretly route .2 million to D.C. lobbying firms, Trump announced Wednesday he’s bringing in some outside help.
President and CEO of the research and consulting firm The Polling Company, Inc., as well as WomanTrend (its division that focuses on female consumers), Conway first joined the Trump campaign in early July as senior advisor to chairman Paul Manafort after working for a Ted Cruz super PAC. “It’s essentially, ‘dance with the one who brung ya'”.
The latest shake-up comes just 82 days before the election. Wednesday’s announcements come less than three months before Mr Trump’s face-off with Mrs Clinton.
“Mr. Trump is still paying the price for running a lean-and-mean primary campaign”, Caputo said. Trump also received his first classified national security briefing at a Federal Bureau of Investigation field office in lower Manhattan.
Trying to run in 50 states, deal with the national media, take on the Clinton machine.
Trump has been badly damaged since denigrating the parents of a Muslim American soldier killed in Iraq, members of the so-called Gold Star families who have lost a loved one in military service.
Top Republicans say that if Trump loses in those states by up to 10 points or more, it could be impossible to win over enough split-ticket voters to keep control of the Senate.
Clinton campaign spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri responded with a statement early Wednesday accusing Trump of being the bigot instead.
Several Republicans discussed the personnel changes on the condition of anonymity, because they were not authorized to publicly disclose internal thinking.
Breitbart itself is a hard right wing, vehemently pro-Trump media outlet that speaks to numerous frustrations of Americans that he has been tapping into.
The far-right Breitbart site, founded by the late Andrew Breitbart, publishes a dash of news with a heavy dose of conservative opinion. Conway also has ties to the Mercers.
Yet for longtime aides and supporters loyal to Trump, Bannon’s hiring is cause for concern.
Trump said Wednesday he has known Bannon and Conway “for many years”. She’s also close with daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, another influential voice in the candidate’s inner circle.
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The Republican presidential nominee also announced that this week his campaign will launch TV ads for the first time. But the campaign had to continue growing.
She said Mr Trump has a history of beating expectations and can not be counted out.
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“Rather than throwing good money after bad, the RNC should shift its strategy and its resources to convince voters not to give Hillary Clinton the “blank check” of a Democrat-controlled Congress to advance her big government agenda”, the letter says.
