Although a decision on Bolton is in the future, Trump is adding two officials to top posts to oversee his struggling campaign.
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Wednesday’s sidelining of Paul Manafort – Trump’s alpha strategist and a denizen of the lobbying world – is being viewed in some Republican circles as the burning of the last bridge between the GOP’s traditional donor establishment and the party’s presidential nominee.
“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.
Ben Shapiro, who left Breitbart after it declared its support for Trump, made his feelings for the Republican nominee perfectly clear when asked about the website’s executive Steve Bannon joining Trump’s campaign team.
“I think it helps us to be a little bit behind, and we are”, Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said on CNN’s “New Day”.
But Clinton is the second-most unpopular presidential candidate, with majorities of Americans deeming her untrustworthy.
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.
Trump’s campaign announced earlier that it would finally begin airing its first ads of the general election next week in the battleground states of Florida, Ohio, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. Everybody will love that.’ Well, as I understand it from sources who know about this incident, Paul Manafort politely said, ‘You know, maybe that isn’t a great idea, it might come off as condescending, or a little crude appeal that could backfire, maybe you shouldn’t do that.'” Fineman continued, “He said it politely, but he was the campaign chairman so maybe somebody would listen.
Bardella joined this week’s episode of “Powerhouse Politics” podcast with ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl and ABC News Deputy Political Director Shushannah Walshe to discuss the recent shakeup in the Trump campaign.
“We see in Hillary Clinton what happens when you are inauthentic, when you are trying too hard to be something you’re not”, said Conway, a strategist and pollster.
“He’s going to give these policy speeches”, she said on CNN.
Trump’s new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, promised on Thursday he would stick to a more disciplined and uplifting message to voters in the final dash to Election Day without crimping his freewheeling style. Not only does he have a unique understanding of the economic and racial grievances that fueled Trump’s ascent, he brings digital media chops to a campaign that has been frustrated with its inability to react quickly to bad news cycles and influence narratives unfurling on cable television and social media. “If you start pivoting, you’re not being honest with people”, Trump said in an interview ahead of the shake-up.
Trump’s staffing shuffle comes as he aims to sharpen his message with a focus on national security and “law and order” heading into the final stretch of the campaign.
GREENE: Boris Epshteyn is a senior adviser to the Trump campaign.
“Trump is on his third campaign manager in three months. I mean you have to be you”.
“If anyone sat there and listened to that call, you’d think that you were attending a white supremacist rally”, said Bardella, citing what he called Bannon’s “nationalism and hatred for immigrants, people coming into this country to try to get a better life for themselves”. Trump also received his first classified national security briefing at a Federal Bureau of Investigation field office in lower Manhattan.
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The involvement of an alt-right nationalist media company only further proves that Donald Trump is injecting that aggressive philosophy into the daily discussion as he’s on his way out the door.
