What Clinton thinks about Trump’s campaign shakeup
While Republicans close to Trump argued that the move was not a shake-up and that the campaign remained on course, top aides inside the Clinton campaign viewed the move as a departure from the more scripted Trump that many establishment Republicans were hoping to see in recent months.
“I don’t think it matters because the problem is Donald Trump”, Kristol said in an interview on the Morning Joe program, Politico reported.
In a more surprising hire, Trump added Steve Bannon, the executive chairman of Breitbart News, as his campaign’s chief executive officer.
Speculation on Bannon and Ailes joining the Trump campaign to set the groundwork for a future media play has gathered steam not too long after the campaign shake-up news broke. “That’s all about Trump”. She was sitting next to campaign chair Paul Manafort at one end of the table. After the recent promotion, she will take on the role of campaign manager.
Breitbart has seen nearly no fault with anything Trump has done this campaign.
Clinton is campaigning and fundraising in OH, a key battleground state. His sudden appearance at the top of the campaign hierarchy, reportedly as part of an effort to “let Trump be Trump” at the expense of Paul Manafort’s strategy of “normalizing” the mogul, has political junkies salivating at the vicious and violent tactics we can presumably anticipate in the very near future.
Lewandowski, who was ousted in June as the unorthodox Trump campaign tried to adopt more presidential posture, likened Bannon to “a street fighter”, like himself.
As his poll numbers drop against Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, the real estate tycoon is bringing in conservative firebrand and Breitbart News co-founder Stephen Bannon as campaign CEO.
Conway “will work on messaging and travel frequently with Mr. Trump, while working closely with Mr. Bannon and Mr. Manafort on all aspects of the campaign moving forward”.
Trump issued a call to African-Americans to vote for him, but did so from an overwhelmingly white suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Trump’s own campaign has enjoyed a burst of fundraising from direct mail and online donations, saying it raised $64 million that way in July alone – the vast majority of which goes to his campaign, not the Republican Party. While other Fox News hosts were more critical of Trump, no television outlet provided him with more cover. “I think it’s about management and making sure you have the right number of people in place to manage an organization that has grown dramatically”. After an incident where former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski grabbed Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields, the staff was instructed to not publicly talk about what happened.
Although Trump has repeatedly said he plans to lean on the party to pay for key operations such as voter door-knocking, it is increasingly clear that he will have the money to build on his own if he chooses to do so.
“Trump Echoes Breitbart: Battle with Islam ‘Like The Cold War, ‘” read one headline earlier this week.
Early in her political career, when she was a fixture of the D.C. Republican landscape, you wouldn’t have figured Kellyanne Fitzpatrick (as she was then named) for someone who would be hanging out with the Attila-like conqueror of the Republican Establishment.