Election day is on Tuesday, November 8, and with each passing day, Donald Trump appears to be struggling to increase his support and keeps facing new obstacles when it comes to the American way of doing politics, something that he has advocated against since he began running for president.
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A Hammonton-area native is now Donald Trump’s campaign manager as the Republican presidential candidate announced a shakeup Wednesday of the leadership team in his bid for the White House.
Conway joined Trump’s campaign earlier this year as a senior adviser.
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. The New York Times earlier this week reported that Manafort was slated to receive almost $13 million from a pro-Russian political party.
During a tour of the Cleveland High School she was speaking at Clinton ignored reporters in her press pool as they shouted questions at her about the latest chaos in Trump’s campaign before her rally. Mark Kirk who now heads the Kirk-allied Independent Voices for Illinois Super PAC; and Wayne Steger, a political science professor at DePaul University. And they insisted that staff departures resulting from the changes would be few.
Trump, who is trailing Clinton in a slew of national and swing-state polls after a weeks of gaffes and missteps, shook up his camping Wednesday for the second time, bringing in Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen Bannon as campaign CEO and promoting pollster Kellyanne Conway to campaign manager.
According to multiple reports, Trump chafed under direction from RNC strategists and his campaign chairman Paul Manafort, urging him to pivot towards a more conventional general election campaign strategy.
Bannon, a former Goldman Sachs banker who also served in the US Navy, came under criticism as not supporting Michelle Fields, a female reporter who said she was grabbed and bruised by Lewandowski at a March campaign event in Florida. Donald Trump runs his campaign like it’s one of his real estate ventures, aggressively and with every intention to cause harm and getting away with it. He was encouraged to bring Bannon on board by Rebekah Mercer, a member of a prominent GOP fundraising family that has close ties to the Breitbart executive.
Trump has resisted pressure to change his campaign style.
Bannon’s ascension solidifies an informal, mutually beneficial relationship between Breitbart, which has unapologetically championed Trump, and the campaign.
People briefed on the reshuffling were adamant that Trump’s children would seek to block a return by Lewandowski.
Trump’s statement, however, said the moves do not affect Manafort’s role.
But Representative Mark Meadows of North Carolina called Trump’s move a good prescription for anxious congressional Republicans.
And count on Trump to ramp up his appeals to Bernie Sanders’ supporters and the left.
“Here’s the dilemma. There are going to be some people who vote for Donald Trump”, said Miringoff, creating a challenge for Republican candidates who oppose him.
She said she was also advising him to take “his case directly to the people”.
Manafort, who will remain on the campaign but will see his influence scaled back, drew unwelcome attention this week when The New York Times reported that his name was on secret ledgers showing cash payments designated to him of more than $12 million from a Ukrainian political party with close ties to Russian Federation.
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Pace reported from Washington.
