Republican Donald Trump is overhauling his campaign again, bringing in Breitbart News’ Bannon as campaign CEO and promoting pollster Kellyanne Conway to campaign manager.
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The former New York City mayor, a top Trump supporter, disputes the suggestion it reflects negatively on Manafort.
However, while numerous outlets reported that the Trump campaign was working with Ailes, campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks dismissed such talk as “not accurate”.
“We met as the “core four” today“, she was quoted as saying, referring to herself, Bannon, Manafort and Manafort’s deputy, Rick Gates.
It offers Trump’s team a chance to return to the “let Trump be Trump” style practiced by former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski in winning the Republican presidential nomination for the November 8 election.
If you thought the old Donald Trump campaign was wild and insane, just wait for the new Trump campaign now that Breitbart’s Steve Bannon has taken over as chief executive.
Breitbart has also touted conspiracy theories about Clinton’s health and published dozens of stories about Bill Clinton’s alleged treatment of women, with headlines like “The Secret Sex Abuse Victims of Bill Clinton”.
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 campaign shakeup, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, comes as polls show Trump trailing Democrat Hillary Clinton nationally and in key battleground states following a hard stretch that saw him insulting the Muslim parents of a U.S. Army soldier who died in Iraq and temporarily refraining from endorsing Ryan in his Wisconsin primary race. Trump’s relations with the Bush wing of the party could hardly be worse, but Bannon is likely to make them impossible.
Conway had been a top Trump adviser since July.
“I am committed to doing whatever it takes to win this election, and ultimately become president because our country can not afford four more years of the failed Obama-Clinton policies which have endangered our financial and physical security”, Trump said in a statement announcing the hires. “Now he’s accusing her of bigoted remarks – We think the American people will know which candidate is guilty of the charge”, spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri said in a statement early Wednesday. “It is time for us to believe him”. In June, he fired longtime aide Corey Lewandowski as campaign manager and handed more power to senior campaign aide Paul Manafort.
“Mr. Trump doesn’t trust him anymore”.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump made a major overhaul of his electoral campaign team, local media reported Wednesday.
Trump, though, feel most comfortable in his original approach. “It manifests itself”, the source said. But some cautioned that such chatter was predictable and inevitable when any campaign faces tough times. In particular, he has been rebuked for his prolonged feud with the family of a Muslim U.S. Army captain who was killed in the Iraq war.
Since then, he has faced a barrage of criticism from Republicans over his campaign style and his refusal to stick to a policy message.
NEW YORK (AP) Frustrated with his troubled candidacy, Donald Trump is hinging his presidential hopes on a risky bet: that the fiery populism and freewheeling style that won him the Republican nomination give him a better shot at the White House than uniting his party and rallying moderate voters.
“I am who I am”. “It’s me. I don’t want to change. If you start pivoting, you’re not being honest with people”. You have to be you.
The findings differ sharply from Trump’s positions, which include a wall built on the border with Mexico, deporting millions of people here illegally and “extreme” vetting of people entering the United States.
But in the lead-up to the Republican Party convention, Lewandowski found himself sidelined by more experienced political operatives like Manafort.
Bannon has never run a political campaign.
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Internal finger pointing abounded in recent days as recent media accounts have portrayed a campaign in disarray and at-times feuding with frustrated GOP leaders. A statement announcing the hires was released Wednesday.
