Former Breitbart editor calls Trump a ‘turd tornado’

‘There is no new Donald Trump – this is it, ‘ Clinton said, substituting the news of the day into a section of her stump speech where she routinely attacks Trump as unfit for office. Everyone talks about, ‘Oh, well you’re going to pivot, you’re going to.’ I don’t want to pivot.

Trump, whose campaign is built on his persona as a victor, said several times Wednesday that the campaign was “doing well”, and said his speech hours earlier in Wisconsin Tuesday was well-received.

Conway takes the place of Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, who has been the de facto campaign manager since the dismissal of Lewandowski, who helped Trump through the early primary states but was jettisoned as part of an unsuccessful effort to turn the Trump campaign into something resembling a normal presidential candidacy.

This year he has repeatedly interviewed Trump. She added, “We’re concerned, but that’s what campaigns are for”. Luntz, however, praised pollster Kellyanne Conway, another Trump addition, for her knowledge and messaging skill.

In the Wisconsin outing Tuesday, Trump accused Clinton of “bigotry” and being “against the police”, claiming that she and other Democrats have “betrayed the African American community” and pandered for votes. In a statement Wednesday, Breitbart CEO and publisher Larry Solov said Bannon would “perform brilliantly” in his new role as Trump campaign CEO. “He’s said very clearly that he wants to be himself, he wants to say whatever is on his mind and the things that he believes, and he is going to do that”. “Unfortunately, his style is not working”. Paul Manafort, the Trump campaign chairman, had said repeatedly that Mr. Trump was transitioning into a more disciplined candidate, only to see him go off-script. Trump was scheduled to receive his first classified national security briefing on Wednesday, and his campaign announced they would begin airing ads in four battleground states this weekend. A campaign adviser told The Wall Street Journal Tuesday that the first round of spots would air Friday in Florida, Ohio, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.

Conway told Fox’s Bill Hemmer and Martha McCallum, “I know some are calling it a shakeup, but it really is not”. “They are about a month late on that front”.

Both Bannon and Conway have close ties to Republican megadonor Robert Mercer, who leads a NY hedge fund. Mercer has investments in Breitbart News.

Trump has resisted pleas from fellow Republicans to overhaul the flame-throwing approach on the campaign trail that powered his surge to the top of the Republican field in the primary season. By then, Bannon had left investment banking behind, capitalized on an entertainment industry deal that left him with a share of “Seinfeld” royalties, founded the Government Accountability Institute to ferret out “crony capitalism” and government corruption, and created a number of his own films, including paeans to Palin, the tea party movement and Ronald Reagan. Her close relations with cultural conservatives before and after the Akin disaster make it unsurprising when she resurfaced early in the 2016 cycle as head of a pro-Ted Cruz super-pac funded by hedge-fund tycoon Robert Mercer. It also highlights the degree to which Trump, a media-conscious reality television star, seems more preoccupied with courting the conservative audience he already has than expanding his political base in order to win the election.

-Rebecca Ballhaus contributed to this article.