New Trump campaign manager offers sunny view of stormy mogul

And since “Letting Trump be Trump” has has prompted The Donald’s decline, Steve Bannon may only hasten the final meltdown.

Trump has sought to put the past week behind him, delivering a more in-depth foreign policy speech and making an appeal to black voters. As the New York Times noted on Wednesday, Trump may even be plotting how he can dominate the political discourse beyond a non-presidential outcome to his campaign with a different kind of pivot – into alt-right media kingpin. Ailes recently stepped down from Fox amid a swirl of sexual harassment allegations and accusations that he used his power to spy on adversaries. By hiring Bannon and promoting pollster Kellyanne Conway to campaign manager, while Manafort retains his campaign chairman title, Trump may be formalizing the negative tack the Clinton team has been anticipating.

Trump’s new CEO, Stephen Bannon, who is taking a leave of absence from running Breitbart News, will help the campaign because he is just like Trump, she said.

In a statement, Trump’s campaign favorably cited a Bloomberg Politics report describing the pugilistic entrepreneur as “the most risky political operative in America”, who, along with Conway, has the “experience and expertise needed to defeat Hillary Clinton in November”. It’s me. I don’t want to change. “We’re going to make sure Donald Trump is comfortable about being in his own skin – that he doesn’t lose that authenticity that you simply can’t buy and a pollster can’t give you”.

Dropping poll numbers, several recent vicious and somewhat deserved criticisms of Trump and a campaign style that did not fit Trump’s persona are considered the main drivers in the change.

Hours after Trump announced that Steve Bannon, a top executive at the right-wing news site Breitbart, would take over as the campaign chief executive officer, Clinton campaign Chairman Robby Mook painted Bannon as an extremist fringe character who propagates racist ideas. That approach would mean more big rallies, freewheeling interviews on TV, and a streamlined focus on battleground states.

Donald, Jr., Eric and Ivanka Trump have been influential advisers in the campaign and key mediators between Trump and Manafort, often also guiding their father to mollify his rhetoric and run a more conventional campaign.

“He doesn’t look at things through a political lens”, like traditional politicians, she said of Trump, who has never held elected office.

“I am very appreciative of the campaign that Paul Manafort and [his deputy] Rick Gates have built to this point”, Conway said.

Conway’s response was far more measured than Trump aide Michael Cohen, who seemed to ignore the Republican nominee’s dropping support.

“During a gaggle with reporters, Conway dismissed Trump’s falling numbers, noting that it’s August, not September or October”. “I can’t imagine why she’s doing it”.

But more aggressive attacks, spearheaded by a guy whose website specializes in giving Clinton agita, will keep the Democratic nominee on defense. And Clinton is her own worst enemy when it comes to trying to explain that behavior.

“Trump has chose to double down on his most small, nasty and divisive instincts by turning his campaign over to someone who is best known for running a so-called news site [that traffics in] racist, anti-Muslim, anti-Semitic conspiracy theories”, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, Robby Mook, said on Wednesday.