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With less than three months to go until election day, Donald Trump is reportedly shaking up his campaign. again.

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Donald Trump’s hiring of Breitbart News executive chairman Steve Bannon is a signal that nothing is off-limits between now and November 8.

The moves were first reported by The Wall Street Journal and mark yet another round of internal shakeups for a campaign that seems to be struggling to find consistent footing.

“I look at it as an expansion of the team”.

Another headache for Manafort: the continued hovering presence of Lewandowski, now a CNN commentator, who remains a confidant of Trump.

At the time, Trump described the change to Fox News: “I think it’s time now for a different kind of a campaign”.

Trump has been trailing in polls to rival Hillary Clinton, with some Republicans publicly pressuring the Republican National Committee to abandon Trump’s bid and instead focus on down ballot races.

Trump told The Associated Press in a phone interview early Wednesday that he has known both individulas for a long time.

The move comes almost two months after Trump fired Corey Lewandowski as his campaign manager. “It manifests itself”, the source said.

With these two new people steering the Trump train, his fans should pay careful attention.

Mr Trump has seen his poll ratings slip since the party conventions last month.

And the decision also follows a slew of self-inflicted wounds since the Democratic National Convention wrapped, with Trump exchanging barbs with the parents of a slain United States soldier, reigniting intra-party tensions by initially declining to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan in his reelection bid and ultimately suggesting that “Second Amendment people” could act to keep Clinton from appointing liberal Supreme Court justices should she become president.

Earlier this year, when Lewandowski was accused of assaulting Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields after a press conference, Fields said Breitbart executives did not do enough to support her. “I am who I am”, he told a local station in Wisconsin. “It’s me. I don’t want to change”. Everyone talks about, ‘Oh, well you’re going to pivot, you’re going to.’ I don’t want to pivot. You have to be you. “If you start pivoting, you are not being honest withpeople”.

He said on Tuesday: “You know, I am who I am”.

The New York Times also reported that Kellyanne Conway, a senior adviser and pollster for Trump and running mate Mike Pence, has been promoted to the role of the candidate’s campaign manager.

Under Bannon, Breitbart News emerged as a leading defender of Trump.

The Trump campaign denied that Ailes would be taking on any role with the campaign and campaign aides also received a memo Tuesday slapping down those reports, according to a source close to the campaign.

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Manafort and Lewandowski have had a bitter relationship ever since Manafort came onto the campaign, which only worsened when Lewandowski was sacked in June during the last major campaign overhaul.

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