“Well look, Sasha Issenberg, who is a political professional, put that out, and one of the things we had talked about many, many times in the campaign and Donald Trump said is you’re going to be exhausted of winning and I can tell you I will never get exhausted of winning”, Lewandowski replied.
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Paul Manafort, the chairman of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, has resigned after a wave of allegations about his work for foreign governments as a lobbyist.
Aiming to make a dent in the support base of his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has urged the African-American community, which had steadfastly backed the former in primaries, to join his campaign for a “better future”.
“I will not rest until children of every color in this country are fully included in the American Dream”, Trump said, urging African-American voters to give him a chance.
Earlier this week, Trump brought on two new top campaign officials in a move largely seen as a sidelining of Manafort. And they contributed to Manafort becoming viewed with trepidation by Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and a major force within the campaign, particularly after a number of false starts since the Republican National Convention, according to three people briefed on the matter.
Polls indicate Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump are tied in Georgia, a state that hasn’t been won by a Democrat since 1992, when Bill Clinton beat President George H.W. Bush.
The Trump campaign is at the centre of more reverberations after it was announced his campaign manager is standing down – days after the tycoon promoted a maverick conservative as the de facto chief. That’s bad news for Trump, if only because Manafort was the only guy who told Trump not to publish his infamous Cinco de Mayo taco bowl tweet.
But what if Trump’s campaign was hacked, too?
The resignation comes a few days after The New York Times published that Manafort received almost $13 million between 2007 and 2012 from the political party of ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.
It was his first return to top-level Republican politics in 20 years – having been reportedly passed over in 2008 by John McCain, who was allegedly alarmed by his unsavory lobbying clientele.
“It’s a shitshow”, one source with knowledge of the situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity said on Friday morning.
After warring behind the scenes for months with Lewandowski, who had little regard for Manafort, Lewandoswki was sacked earlier this summer.
Trump “was not a candidate that could be corralled”, Steele told MSNBC.
But as the United States press published story after story of staff tearing their hair out with their boss’s seeming inability to stay on message, Trump batted aside suggestions that he should change tack.
The new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, had described Manafort and Gates as part of a new “core four” atop the Trump operation with her and CEO Stephen Bannon. Well, Trump supporters probably won’t care. Manafort denies receiving those payments.
Steele said Manafort’s departure “makes ideal sense”.
The shift comes just as Trump needs challenging from those on his side, as he’s unlikely to bounce back while campaigning as the definition of insanity-doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
On Friday, the ticket released its first television ads, saying Clinton’s America was one of disorder and illegal immigration.
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He then launched into a sustained pitch for African-American voters, who have overwhelmingly flocked to Mrs Clinton.
