Pollster Kellyanne Conway, who has known Trump for years and gained his trust during her brief tenure working for him, will serve as campaign manager.
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Conway, meanwhile, joined Trump’s campaign earlier this year as a senior advisor.
Several people in touch with Trump or his top political advisers in recent days said they had heard a shake-up was possible.
Rarely do presidential campaigns wait to advertise, or undergo such leadership tumult, at such a late stage of the general election.
“Anyone who knows anything about politics would look at the current situation and realise he’s losing because he’s losing moderates, women and minorities”.
Her campaign s manager accused Bannon of presiding over a website that “peddles divisive, at times racist, anti-Muslim, anti-Semitic conspiracy theories”.
“I want to win”, Mr. Trump said in an interview Tuesday night in which he disclosed his hires.
While his media-saturated, populist, outsider campaign defeated 16 rivals to win the Republican nomination, Trump has refuted suggestions that he should change tack to win the November election from the center. She also worked for vice presidential nominee Mike Pence in his earlier races.
It strips out the soul of a party that dates back to Abraham Lincoln.
Conway is, at least, has some campaign experience.
Clinton has the support of 50 percent of voters and Trump is backed by 41 percent, which closely mirrors last week’s result in the same survey conducted by the NBC News and the Survey Monkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll.
Since then, he has faced a barrage of criticism from Republicans over his freewheeling campaign style and his refusal to stick to a policy message. Mr Trump later backed off the comments about Islamic State.
Bannon will oversee campaign staff and operations and “strategic oversight of major campaign initiatives”, the statement said.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is shaking up his campaign staff, after a series of missteps that led to slumping poll numbers.
The source said the former campaign chairman was “saying things Trump didn’t want to hear”, such as advising him to “stop attacking Gold Star families” and “stop making veiled Second Amendment references”.
The move came just two days after Manafort was accused by American daily The New York Times of receiving nearly $13 million from a pro-Russian Ukrainian party over the past six years.
The head of Ukraine s newly formed National Anti-Corruption Bureau said this week that more than $12 million was earmarked for payment to Manafort from 2007 to 2012, although it was not clear if he received the money. The billionaire called Manafort “a true professional”. “We will reject bigotry and hatred and oppression in all its forms, and seek a new future built on our common culture and values as one American people”. Lewandowski was charged with battery but the charge was later dropped.
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Illinois Republicans came to the Illinois State Fair to talk about party unity but instead faced a lot of questions about Donald Trump’s viability.
