Gates, who had worked with Manafort on Ukrainian issues, told the AP he and Manafort had consulted with the lobbying firms on Ukrainian politics, but called the actions lawful.
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Her remarks came shortly after Trump, struggling to steady his troubled campaign, announced a new chief executive officer and campaign manager.
Kellyanne Conway has gone from senior advisor to campaign manager. “Breitbart, even more than a Sean Hannity on Fox News, was so much a Trump campaign arm that when a Trump campaign manager man-handled one of his reporters, [Breitbart] sided with the campaign”, Rutenberg said.
Bannon, a former Goldman Sachs banker, is known to share Trump’s confrontational style and knack for clashing with the establishment.
Last year, he was described by Bloomberg as “the most unsafe political operative in America”.
On Wednesday morning, he reacted to Bannon’s hiring by tweeting, “I believe Breitbart became Trump Pravda so that Steve Bannon could be the conductor on the Trump Train”.
But Clinton wasn’t done taking shots at the Trump campaign’s desperate attempt to turn things around.
Conway is a polling and market research expert.
Unafraid to play favorites, Breitbart early previous year prominently featured positive stories about Ted Cruz, including an exclusive behind-the-scenes photo shoot with his family the night before the Texas senator announced his presidential run. Conway’s participation will also be focused towards gaining some support from female voters, something that Trump has struggled with since the beginning of the campaign due to numerous stories concerning his private life and his treating of women throughout the years as a powerful business magnate.
“If you look at Stephen Bannon and what they’ve built at Breitbart, it’s win at all costs”, Mr. Lewandowski said on CNN. Under Bannon, Breitbart has also led the anti-immigration charge that Trump has embraced wholeheartedly in his campaign.
“The more competitive you can make the presidential race, the more it’s going to help down-ballot races”, said Ian Prior, spokesman for outside groups linked to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, which have already spent almost $30 million on Senate races with another $40 million reserved for the fall.
The Journal reported that Bannon met with Trump later on Sunday at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., to “lay out his new thinking for the campaign team” – with Manafort joining that meeting. Instead, Bannon has been telling Trump to run more fully as an outsider and an unabashed nationalist.
Bannon has no experience with political campaigns, but he represents the type of bare-knuckled fighter that the candidate had in Corey Lewandowski, his combative former campaign manager, who was sacked June 20. Yet, the RNC has faced concerns from some Republicans over whether its get-out-the-vote efforts will be up to par by Election Day.
Kellyanne Conway speaks during an interview on Bloomberg TV in NY on July 5, 2016.
A longtime Republican strategist and pollster, she has close ties to Trump’s running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence.
“There is no new Donald Trump”. Republicans say he’s grown angry with his sinking poll numbers and frustrated that many GOP lawmakers remain skeptical of his candidacy. Trump later alleged that he was using sarcasm after the mainstream media severely criticized him.
The shake-up comes after Rebekah Mercer, daughter of Long Island hedge fund manager and mega-campaign donor Robert Mercer, reportedly talked to Trump in the Hamptons this weekend about adjusting his campaign strategy. He also claims that delving into TV advertising will cause a great impact, as he argues that Clinton has “spent $100 million on ads”, while he has not spent a dime.
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The Washington Post cited Trump campaign aides as saying Mr Trump respected Mr Manafort but felt “boxed in” by people “who barely knew him”.
