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For the second time in two months, the Trump campaign has a major change at the top.....
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who is sagging in the polls in key battleground states 82 days before the November election, has shaken up his campaign again in an effort to double-down on the style that won him a resounding victory in the Republican primaries.
Breitbart News’ executive chairman Stephen Bannon was appointed the campaign CEO and pollster Kellyanne Conway was promoted to campaign manager, Trump's campaign announced in a statement Wednesday.
Bannon, a former naval officer and investment banker with no previous presidential campaign experience, is temporarily stepping down from Breitbart News to take on the new position "designed to bolster the business-like approach of Mr. Trump's campaign," the statement said.
Bannon, who also wrote and directed the 2011 documentary The Undefeated, about former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, has long championed Trump's straight-talk, populist style.
His bare-knuckled Breitbart News site, reflecting a deep mistrust of the political establishment, has often criticized Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Conway, a Republican strategist and pollster, has worked on the campaigns of several GOP candidates, including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Sen. Ted Cruz and,notably, Rep. Mike Pence, the vice-presidential nominee.
"They're terrific people, they're winners, they're champs, and we need to win it," Trump said of the two, according to the Associated Press.
Corey Lewandowski, who was fired as Trump's campaign manager in June, told CNN on Wednesday that Conway "will help with any gender gap problems that he (Trump) may have."
"You've got a candidate who wants to win. This is a clear indication of that. If you look at Stephen Bannon and what they've built at Breitbart, it's win at all costs,” said Lewandowski, who remains close to Trump. “And I think that really makes some people on the left very afraid because they're willing to say and do things that others in the mainstream media wouldn't do.”
So Donald Trump just handed the keys to his campaign and the Republican party to Breitbart, Ann Coulter, and those who hang on to every word Sarah Palin has to say.
This is nuts.
But you know what, God Bless you Donald Trump. You have to think you're going to lose, but if you're going to crash the plane into the mountain, you want to have people around you are not only going to support you, but tell you that it's a good idea.
This ugly campaign is about to get a whole lot uglier. Lewandowski is right. Steve Bannon is win-at-all-costs kind of guy and he's not going to let decency, truth, or the greater interests of the country get in the way of doing whatever it takes to get Trump elected.
I think we're about to see the reemergence of every Clinton scandal of the 90's and beyond. I am almost certain that we will see Juanita Broderick on stage with Trump at some point. I think that any focus on policy from the Trump campaign goes out the window and it will be about attacking Clinton 24/7.
I think we'll see some of the nastiest Presidential campaign commercials ever.
And as Bannon has no love or loyalty for the GOP, I think he and Trump burn the whole thing down with a declaration that "You're with us or against us".
This is going to be an ugly couple of months.
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Agreed !
We will see if they put the finishing touch on totally destroying what was once a good political party or not.
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tennyson wrote:
Agreed !
We will see if they put the finishing touch on totally destroying what was once a good political party or not.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that after this election, we will finally get that major third party made up of establishment republicans and business first democrats.
It will be a pro business, pro immigration reform, pro-free trade, limited government party that is probably quasi-liberal on social issues.
But I just don't know how the mainstream Republican party holds itself together in the age of Trump.
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I'm puzzled how he attacks Hilliary Clinton's mental state and claims she's a bigot and worse when he's been targeted by so many for the same unwanted qualities. Is there nothing original to anything he or his
"handlers" say or think?
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"terrific people", "winners", "champs" ? ! ? !
By what standards?
You're absolutely right in your assessment with this restructuring Lager, Drumpf's ugly campaign is going to get a whole lot uglier. With the people he has brought in to direct his campaign, that have no boundaries when it comes to verifiable truth, are more like tabloid sensation seekers than viable writers, and insensitive to common decency and respect for boundaries.
The entire population of our nation will have to be vaccinated by the end of the campaign, and the rest of the world will be horrified at the demise of our election process. We will definitely lose respect and standing in the world of nations.
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The proverbial "rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic".
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Does this mean that Trump is going to abandon the high road that his campaign has been on so far?