Donald Trump shook up his campaign team for the second time in two months, fending off suggestions that his presidential run is in crisis as polls show Hillary Clinton cruising towards victory.
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Manafort’s efforts to try to tame Trump and make him less of a loose cannon on the campaign trail were also widely seen as a failure. “It lights a fire under us, and it reminds us what we need to do to get this done”.
Donald Trump’s new campaign manager is looking on the bright side of the candidate’s abysmal poll numbers.
The guy now running Donald Trump’s campaign would have his candidate say just the opposite.
“I think my father didn´t want to be, you know, distracted by, you know, whatever things that, you know, Paul was dealing with”, he told the Fox News Channel´s “Sunday Morning Futures”, while also praising Manafort´s work for the campaign. CNN’s Chris Cuomo commented that Bannon makes campaign chairman Paul Manafort look “like a puppy” and scandal-ridden former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski look “like a kitten”.
Gates will remain with Trump’s presidential campaign, taking over as the campaign’s liaison to the Republican National Committee. In a speech, he expressed “regret” for sometimes not choosing the right words or saying the “wrong thing” in the heat of debate. “I have done that”.
The New York billionaire, whose multiple self-inflicted wounds have left him trailing in virtually every battleground state, spent the day in North Carolina, meeting law enforcement officials and addressing supporters later Thursday. “I do regret it particularly where it may have caused personal pain”.
He added that, “Too much is at stake for us to be consumed with these issues”.
Mr Trump told NBC’s Meet The Press previous year: “I don’t want to waste money on pollsters – I don’t want to be unreal, I want to be me”. The New York businessman has made his “tough talk” and brash style a selling point of his campaign for the November 8 election, rarely apologising in the face of criticism even from within his own party for own party for comments insulting women, Muslims and Mexican immigrants.
The other new addition to Donald Trump’s campaign, Kellyanne Conway, made an appearance on PBS NewsHour on Wednesday night in what might have been one of the least aggressive exchanges between a news anchor and a Trump-loyal guest. The move comes days after a campaign shake-up that brought two new members to the top of the organization, including new campaign manager Kellyanne Conway and Breitbart chairman Steve Bannon.
“(Trump is) undisciplined”, Cross said.
His hiring appears to signify a rejection of attempts by veteran Republican operatives to tone down Trump’s combative rhetoric. Politico reports: “Those who’ve spoken with Trump amid the turmoil say he’s hard to read – a man who is thoughtful and contemplative at one moment, and impatient and angry the next”.
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Rarely do presidential campaigns undergo such a level of tumult at such a stage of the general election.
