Trump "overhauls campaign team," adds two new campaign managers

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Muzy72

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Stephen Bannon, chairman of Breitbart, is becoming campaign chief executive. Kellyanne Conway getting promoted to campaign manager. Manafort remains campaign chairman.

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PhoncipleBone

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Chairman of Breitbart coming in? Supposedly getting Ailes as well according to NYT?
This is a delicious and horrible stew he has going then.
 
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whyamihere

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Bannon has never run a campaign before.

Kellyanne is a grade-a idiot who can't even defend Trump on cable television.

Manafort is still on as campaign chair (but his role diminished), keeping up open attacks about his Ukraine-Russia connections.

This is amazing.
 
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BlastProcessing said:
The thing is, neither of them are going to be able to reach beyond Trump's current base. When you want to expand your appeal, you don't think Breitbart.
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No, you see, Breitbart is one of the only honest media companies, and the american people love honesty. Love it. Not like those hacks at the New York times. Have you heard about how they're going out of business soon? A bunch of corrupt liberal stooges running the paper into the ground. No one reads them. They read Breitbart. Breibart.

Did I mention that the New York times is going out of business, by the way?
 
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whyamihere said:
Bannon has never run a campaign before.

Kellyanne is a grade-a idiot who can't even defend Trump on cable television.

Manafort is still on as campaign chair (but his role diminished), keeping up open attacks about his Ukraine-Russia connections.

This is amazing.
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Ac30 said:
Is he still keeping Katrina as his spokeswoman? Insane.
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This quartet is the fucking Teletubbies of political campaigns.
 
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‏@costareports 39m39 minutes ago
Trump is keeping on Manafort as chairman but wanted to bring on someone like Bannon who shares his populism & relishes combat

Finally, time to take the gloves off!

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Polk said:
So he is really hiring for TrumpTV after election, isn't he?
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Yes. The way he's been bringing up the media non-stop, it definitely seems like it's been bouncing around in his head. He's going to bring them up as part of his failure after the election, and announce his own news network to "set the record straight."
 
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Frankly, this was a predictable choice. For trump to reach out beyond his fanbase, that would require him to admit that his image is faulty and has to change in order to bring others in.

Nuh-uh. He's trump. He needs an echo chamber of how great he is and how those who oppose him suck.

Therefore, breibart and Ailes. I have no idea who Conway is, but I wouldn't be shocked to learn she's just another parrot repeating what trump wants to hear back at him.
 
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They're preparing for a scorched-earth scenario. They know they will lose but they're gonna shit the pool as much as they can and sew doubt and paranoia with their base.
 
DietRob

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i've been begging for over 5 years.
He's just doing this so there is more blame for him to spread around when he gets annihilated in November.
 
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EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS 2015 PIECE ON BANNON

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/graphics/2015-steve-bannon/

He’d spent the day at CPAC among the conservative faithful, zipping back and forth between his SiriusXM booth and an unlikely pair of guests he was squiring around: Nigel Farage, the leader of Britain’s right-wing UKIP party, and Phil Robertson, the bandanna’d, ayatollah-bearded Duck Dynasty patriarch who was accepting a free-speech award.
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Most days, Bannon can be found in his Hyde persona, in the Washington offices of Breitbart News. Operating from the basement of his townhouse—known to all as the Breitbart Embassy—Breitbart’s pirate crew became tribunes of the rising Tea Party movement after Barack Obama’s election, bedeviling GOP leaders and helping to foment the 2013 government shutdown. The site has also made life hell for Democrats by, for example, orchestrating the career-ending genital tweeting misfortune that cost New York Representative Anthony Weiner his seat in Congress in 2011. Tipped to Weiner’s proclivity for sexting with female admirers, Bannon says, the site paid trackers to follow his Twitter account 24 hours a day and eventually intercepted a crotch shot Weiner inadvertently made public. The ensuing scandal culminated in the surreal scene, carried live on television, of Andrew Breitbart hijacking Weiner’s press conference and fielding questions from astonished reporters.

On occasion, this partisan zeal has led to egregious errors. Just before our lunch in January, a Breitbart reporter published an article assailing Obama’s nominee for attorney general, Loretta Lynch—but went after the wrong woman. She wasn’t, as the site reported, the Loretta Lynch who was once part of Bill Clinton’s defense team. The embarrassed reporter asked for time off. Bannon, allergic to any hint of concession, refused: “I told him, ‘No. In fact, you’re going to write a story every day this week.’ ” He shrugs. “We’re honey badgers,” he explains. “We don’t give a s---.”
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“It seems to me,” says Brock of Bannon and his team, “what they were able to do in this deal with the Times is the same strategy, but more sophisticated and potentially more effective and damaging because of the reputation of the Times. If you were trying to create doubt and qualms about [Hillary Clinton] among progressives, the Times is the place to do it.” He pauses. “Looking at it from their point of view, the Times is the perfect host body for the virus.”

It wasn’t the only one. In June, when the Clinton Cash frenzy hit its apex, Bannon said: “We’ve got the 15 best investigative reporters at the 15 best newspapers in the country all chasing after Hillary Clinton.” There’s more coming, Bannon reveals, including a graphic novel of Clinton Cash, in January, and a Clinton Cash movie set to arrive in February, just as the presidential primary voting gets under way.
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The reason GAI does this is because it’s the secret to how conservatives can hack the mainstream media. Hall has distilled this, too, into a slogan: “Anchor left, pivot right.” It means that “weaponizing” a story onto the front page of the New York Times (“the Left”) is infinitely more valuable than publishing it on Breitbart.com. “We don’t look at the mainstream media as enemies because we don’t want our work to be trapped in the conservative ecosystem,” says Hall. “We live and die by the media. Every time we’re launching a book, I’ll build a battle map that literally breaks down by category every headline we’re going to place, every op-ed Peter’s going to publish. Some of it is a wish list. But it usually gets done.”
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Bannon does, indeed, have a touch of Clinton Madness. When we met in January, Bill Cosby’s serial predations had just exploded into the news after laying dormant for many years. Bannon was certain this signaled trouble for Bill Clinton, whose own sexual history some conservatives long to revive as a way of hampering his wife’s campaign. His conviction stems from the group of young, female Breitbart News reporters whom he’s dubbed the Valkyries. When I expressed skepticism about the value of reintroducing old scandals, Bannon countered that the Valkyries—a sort of in-house focus group of millennial voter sentiment—were unfamiliar with Clinton contretemps that most older people consider settled. "There’s a whole generation of people who love the news but were 7 or 8 years old when this happened and have no earthly idea about the Clinton sex stuff,” he says.
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The GOP is going to lose down-ticket so badly. It's going to be next-level schadenfreude watching them try to deal with the upcoming GOP apocalypse.

As mentioned by others this signals two things.

1.) Trump expects to lose, and is going to use the next 90 days to get a TV network together.

2.) Nothing will be off the table in negative campaigning.

The house changing hands to Dems is looking more and more likely. The Senate is all but assured at this point.
 
DietRob

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i've been begging for over 5 years.
TheGreatPotato said:
I think it's so he can have a TV network.
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Yea this makes sense too and would be an easy way for his Charmin soft ego to not be destroyed. He will then explain to us that his Presidental run was to expose the lame steam media and he's here to fix it for America by out Foxing Fox news.

If it makes a single cent for him before he has to declare bankruptcy and has to shut his network down he will consider it winning bigly
 
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BreezyLimbo said:
Yup

First he fired Lewdanski, so this is the...3rd iteration of his campaign team?

Like 2 months away from elections

It's hilarious
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Trump campaign reboots.
  • August 2015: Roger Stone quits fired.
  • March 2016: Paul Manafort hired
  • June 2016: Corey Lewandowski fired.
  • August 2016: Stephen Bannon hired.
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Donald Trump, following weeks of gnawing agitation over his advisers’ attempts to temper his style, moved late Tuesday to overhaul his struggling campaign by rebuffing those efforts and elevating two longtime associates who have encouraged his combative populism.
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AHHH

Trump’s stunning decision effectively ended the months-long push by campaign chairman Paul Manafort to moderate Trump’s presentation and pitch for the general election. And it sent a signal, perhaps more clear than ever, that the real-estate mogul intends to finish this race on his own terms, with friends who share his instincts at his side.

While Manafort, a seasoned operative who joined the campaign in March, will remain in his role, the advisers described his status internally as diminished due to Trump’s unhappiness and restlessness in recent weeks.

While Trump respects Manafort, the aides said, he has grown to feel “boxed in” and "controlled" by people who barely know him. Moving forward, he plans to focus intensely on rousing his voters at rallies and through media appearances.
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AHHHHHHHHHH

Trump's turn away from Manafort is in part a reversion to how he ran his campaign in the primary with then-campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. Lewandowski's mantra was "let Trump be Trump" and Trump wants to get back to that type of campaign culture, the aides said.
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Bannon, in phone calls and meetings, has been urging Trump for months to not mount a fall campaign that makes Republican donors and officials comfortable, the aides said. Instead, Bannon has been telling Trump to run more fully as an outsider and an unabashed nationalist.
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HOLY FUCK
 
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Officerrob

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Then there is this:

Robert Costa ‏@costareports 8m8 minutes ago
It's important to note that one of the biggest critics in country of Ryan and McConnell is Steven Bannon.

Bannon is now running Trump camp.
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