Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort quits

Trump and his running mate Mike Pence are in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, this morning, touring flood damage and meeting with residents there.

In a statement Friday morning, Trump said that Manafort offered his resignation.

US law requires such foreign lobbyists to register as foreign agents, something that Manafort had not done.

Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has resigned, following a demotion and controversy surrounding his alleged business dealings with foreign governments.

“My father just didn’t want to have the distraction looming over the campaign and quite frankly looming over all the issues that Hillary’s facing right now”, Eric Trump told Fox News, The New York Times reports.

Gates, for his part, planned to stay. Paul Manafort’s departure does nothing to answer the serious questions about the Republican nominee’s relationship with Putin.

Yet Conway, though a staunch conservative, has a more genial personality and aims to work with Trump to help improve his poor image with women voters. At a Baptist church later, a woman screamed “Thank you for coming, Mr. Trump” as he and Pence sat down with volunteers. “You know, Paul was wonderful”.

Democrats said the repeated upheavals of Trump’s campaign reflect dysfunction and disarray.

Only a few days ago, Manafort retained his position as Trump handed Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway a bulk of the campaign responsibility. Bannon is viewed as more combative and willing to challenge mainstream Republicans and what Trump complains is a biased liberal press. “I think it’s as simple as that”, she said in the interview, first reported by Buzzfeed. “I have done that, and I regret it, particularly where it may have caused personal pain”.

Trump did not elaborate on which specific remarks he regrets.

Three months before the election, Clinton is leading Trump by 47 percent to 41 percent, according to Real Clear Politics’ average of data from major polling operations.

On Thursday, Louisiana’s largest daily newspaper, The Advocate, called on Obama to cut short his summer holiday on the MA island of Martha’s Vineyard to view the flood-devastated areas. In an editorial published Wednesday, The Advocate newspaper in Baton Rouge called on Obama to visit “the most anguished state in the union”.

Multiple strategists, who knew the way in which the former campaign manager influenced Donald Trump a bit too much and this could be one of the reasons why wasn’t wanted anymore.