Two months later, in June, the Republican presidential candidate made another major staffing change, ousting campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.
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The statement from the Trump campaign said Manafort would remain as campaign chairman and chief strategist.
Trump told the Wall Street Journal he was making the changes because “I want to win“.
“I’ve known both of them for a long time. They are extremely capable, highly qualified people who love to win and know how to win”, Trump said in the statement.
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“Mr. Bannon, once recognized by Bloomberg Politics as the ‘most risky political operative in America, ‘ will oversee the campaign staff and operations”, the campaign said in a press release.
More than half of likely voters, 53 percent, said it bothered them a lot that the Clinton foundation accepted money from foreign governments when she was secretary of state, and another 21 percent said it bothered them a little. Earlier this week he caused a major stir with comments about the Second Amendment that were perceived as advocating violence against Clinton, then faced questions yet again after declaring Wednesday that President Barack Obama was the “founder” of the Islamic State group USA a claim that’s patently false.
Trump appeared somewhat more disciplined in recent days, largely sticking to his script during a counterterrorism speech in OH on Monday and a law-and-order address outside Milwaukee on Tuesday night.
Mr Manafort had also come under increasing scrutiny over his ties to Ukraine for elections he worked on as an worldwide consultant, including handwritten ledgers showing he was designated to receive $US12.7 million ($A16.6 million) in undisclosed cash payments from a pro-Russian political party from 2007 to 2012. Manafort is under investigation by Ukraine for alleged cash payments, a story spread by Lewandowski on Twitter.
The move comes 82 days before the election.
She denied reports of a shake-up, telling the New York Times, “It’s an expansion at a busy time in the final stretch of thecampaign”.
The source noted that Lewandowski had issued a similar campaign memo when Manafort was hired in a volunteer capacity with the campaign.
Brian Walsh, a Republican strategist who has been critical of Trump in the past, said his embrace of Bannon seemed to indicate the NY businessman had no intention of changing tactics. That prompted GOP officials to criticize their nominee for going off script and to urge him to construct a more disciplined campaign.
Both Ms. Conway and Mr. Bannon, whose news organization has been very favorable to Mr. Trump since he entered the primaries, are close with Robert and Rebekah Mercer, the father-and-daughter conservative donors who have become allies of the candidate and are funding a “super PAC” that is working against Hillary Clinton.
Bannon has been outspoken in his dislike of the GOP political establishment, telling a 2013 crowd in Washington D.C. that he didn’t believe in a “functional conservative party” in the US and that the Republicans certainly weren’t that.
When Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields accused Lewandowski of manhandling her at a Trump rally, the conservative media outlet sided with the Trump campaign.
The campaign also touted its “first major TV ad buy of the general election”, something the candidate has steadfastly resisted to this point.
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Although Trump has repeatedly said he plans to lean on the party to pay for key operations such as voter door-knocking, it is increasingly clear that he will have the money to build on his own if he chooses to do so. “Our country can not afford four more years of the failed Obama-Clinton policies which have endangered our financial and physical security”.
