Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who has slipped in the polls in recent weeks, has shaken up his campaign again.
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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.
“Mr. Trump doesn’t trust him anymore”.
“It’s an expansion at a busy time in the final stretch of the campaign”, Conway told The New York Times.
The staffing shake-up follows several weeks of negative headlines and alarming polls for Trump who is trailing Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee, in almost every key battleground state and lagging in the latest national polls.
Chief among those clients was Viktor Yanukovych, the pro-Kremlin former president of Ukraine whom Manafort helped rebrand until he was deposed during a popular uprising in 2014.
Bannon was a key figure in producing and promoting a movie called “Clinton Cash” that accuses Bill and Hillary Clinton of doing favors for high-dollar donors to the Clinton Foundation charity, a theme that Trump has been touching on in his campaign speeches. Trump’s rhetoric represents who he really is, Mook told reporters. “Somebody who’s been successful his whole life is not going to reinvent himself with 80 days to go”.
Returning from an overseas vacation, Trump’ son-in-law Jared Kushner, a top campaign official, convened a meeting at Trump Tower with Manafort, Gates, Bannon and Conway on Trump’s orders to announce the shift in roles, sources said.
A Trump press release Wednesday bragged about the headline on Green’s important Businessweek article describing Bannon as “the most risky political operative in America”. Campaign chairman Paul Manafort will retain his title, but the staffing change was seen by some as a demotion for Manafort. Gorka, a professor at Marine Corps University and is the chairman of Threat Knowledge Group, a national security consulting group, has repeatedly been identified as an editor on Breitbart’s website, and frequently appears as a commentator on Fox News.
“He gets the need to personalize and humanize what Trump wants to do”, Appell said.
Bannon, a former Navy officer and Goldman Sachs investment banker, has been a right-wing media executive for years. Most recently, he produced “Clinton Cash“, released a year ago.
Considering all that, the assertion that Trump is looking at all this and concluding the problem is that he just hasn’t been himself enough sounds deeply unusual.
“Voters have not been happy with the establishment”.
“Everybody talks about, Oh well, you re gonna pivot”. The voters will be able to see what they’d get in the Oval Office, and if he loses Mr. Trump would know, even if he didn’t admit it, that he is the man responsible.
The appointment formalizes what has been an informal and beneficial relationship between Breitbart.com and the campaign. The longtime Republican strategist and pollster has close ties to Trump’s running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence.
“The best way forward in my view is for every Republican to remind Americans about the historical dangers of a new Democratic president with majorities in the House and Senate”, said John Holmes, a former aide to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Calling the giveaway to the very wealthy the “Trump Loophole”, Mrs. Clinton provided a snapshot of what else that money could be spent on: Enrolling 890,000 four-year olds, who now lack access, in publicly funded Pre-K; Providing a year’s worth of health care for 360,000 veterans; Providing free community college to 1.1 million students; or, Expanding broadband to every home that lacks access.
Supporters in the “let Trump be Trump” camp heralded the moves.
“When Andrew Breitbart passes away, Larry Soloff – Breitbart’s friend – and Steve Bannon come in, take over the company and this is where Trumpism, before Trump, really starts to marinate”.
Donald Trump restructured his campaign leadership Tuesday in a desperate attempt to turn around his flagging presidential bid.
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Trump, whose campaign is built on his persona as a victor, said several times Wednesday that the campaign was “doing well”, and said his speech hours earlier in Wisconsin Tuesday was well-received.
