My sides...
By*ASHLEY*PARKER and*MAGGIE*HABERMAN
AUGUST 17, 2016
LAS VEGAS — Donald J. Trump has shaken up his presidential campaign for the second time in two months, hiring a top executive from the conservative website Breitbart News and promoting a senior adviser in an effort to right his faltering campaign.
Stephen Bannon, the executive chairman of Breitbart News LLC, will become the Republican campaign’s chief executive, and Kellyanne Conway, a senior adviser and pollster for Mr. Trump and his running mate, Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana, will become the campaign manager.
Paul Manafort, the campaign chairman, will retain his title. But the staffing change, hammered out on Sunday and set to be formally announced Wednesday morning, was seen by some as a demotion for Mr. Manafort.
The news, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, was confirmed early Wednesday by Ms. Conway in a brief interview, but she rejected the idea that the changes amounted to a shake-up and said that Mr. Manafort was not being diminished.
“It’s an expansion at a busy time in the final stretch of the campaign,” she said, adding that Mr. Manafort and his deputy, Rick Gates, would remain in their roles.
“We met as the ‘core four’ today,” Ms. Conway added, referring to herself, Mr. Bannon, Mr. Manafort and Mr. Gates.
People briefed on the move said that it reflected Mr. Trump’s realization that his campaign was at a crisis point. But it indicates that the candidate — who has chafed at making the types of changes his current aides have asked for, even though he had acknowledged they would need to occur — has decided to embrace his aggressive style for the duration of the race.
Both Ms. Conway and Mr. Bannon, whose news organization has been very favorable to Mr. Trump since he entered the primaries, are close with Robert and Rebekah Mercer, the father-and-daughter conservative donors who have become allies of the candidate and are funding a “super PAC” that is working against Hillary Clinton.
Stephen Bannon, a top executive for Breitbart News, will become the campaign’s chief executive.
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Ms. Conway has past presidential experience in primary races, but the role in a general election represents a new one for her. She is well liked by Mr. Trump’s daughter Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, who had been serving as the de facto campaign manager.
Mr. Bannon has no experience with political campaigns, but he represents the type of bare-knuckled fighter that the candidate had in Corey Lewandowski, his combative former campaign manager, who was fired on June 20.
Mr. Bannon has been a supporter of Mr. Trump’s pugilistic instincts, which the candidate has made clear in interviews he is uncertain about suppressing. He is also deeply mistrustful of the political establishment, and his website has often been critical of Speaker Paul D. Ryan and Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader.
Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City who has become a close Trump adviser, has also urged the candidate to dig in and prepare to fight harder, and in a more focused way, in what has quickly become one of the nastiest presidential campaigns in modern United States history.
Mr. Manafort, who had initially been hired to steer Mr. Trump through what appeared to be a protracted fight for delegates, rose in power after repeated clashes with Mr. Lewandowski.
Mr. Lewandowski was ultimately fired with the help of Mr. Trump’s adult children, who believed the campaign manager was trying to spread negative stories about Mr. Kushner.
Now a paid CNN commentator, Mr. Lewandowski has denied that that was the case, and he and Mr. Trump still speak frequently, with the candidate seeking his advice.
Mr. Lewandowski’s troubles began, in part, when he was accused by a female Breitbart reporter, who worked for Mr. Bannon, of grabbing her roughly after a news conference at one of his Florida properties. He was charged with assault, but prosecutors declined to proceed with the case, which was dropped.
People briefed on the reshuffling were adamant that Mr. Trump’s children would seek to block a return by Mr. Lewandowski. And they insisted that staff departures resulting from the changes would be few.
Kellyanne Conway, a senior adviser and pollster for Mr. Trump and his running mate, Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana, will become the campaign manager.
STEPHEN CROWLEY / THE NEW YORK TIMES
The candidate has bucked repeated efforts to rein in his impulsive behavior, committing repeated gaffes after telling his aides he planned to adopt a more presidential tone.
His behavior has angered the party’s top figures, who have openly expressed concern about preserving Republican majorities in the House and Senate in light of Mr. Trump’s performance in the polls.
The moves were hammered out beginning on Sunday in meetings at Mr. Trump’s golf club at Bedminster, N.J. Roger Ailes, the former head of Fox News, also met with Mr. Trump that day, as The New York Times reported on Tuesday, and he will be part of efforts to prepare Mr. Trump in his debate against Mrs. Clinton and with other tasks, according to three people briefed on the discussions.
Mr. Manafort had also come under increasing scrutiny over his ties to Ukraine for elections he worked on as an international consultant, including handwritten ledgers showing he was designated to receive $12.7 million in undisclosed cash payments from a pro-Russian political party from 2007 to 2012. Yet it remains to be seen whether a new chain of command can ultimately fix the problem: the candidate’s lack of discipline and desire to punch back at nearly any critic.
After a series of recent controversies — including Mr. Trump’s assertion that Russia should hack Mrs. Clinton’s emails; his criticism of a Muslim-American Gold Star family; and his suggestion that Second Amendment supporters could revolt against Mrs. Clinton — the candidate began trying anew to appear moderated in tone.
On Monday, he delivered a speech on terrorism using a teleprompter rather than the off-the-cuff style he prefers. And on Tuesday, he offered yet another scripted address, this time on law and order.
Mr. Pence, too, has privately worked to quell the growing concerns surrounding the Republican ticket. At the annual meeting of the Republican Governors Association in Colorado on Tuesday, Mr. Pence used his keynote speech to offer “encouragement” — a word he used several times — and reassurance to the crowd.
“We’re still winning hearts and minds every day despite an avalanche of negative media coverage,” Mr. Pence said during the closed-door session, according to audio provided to The Times.
Time, Mr. Pence added, was on their side. “It’s preseason, for heaven’s sake,” he said. “The gun starts on Labor Day.”
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i had my suspicions after the michael angelo debacle, since that was just so over the top, but now i am convinced you are in fact a clinton plant designed to make trump voters look stupid.
your conclusions are the exact opposite of what they should be.
the republicans are overwhelmingly enthusiastic about trump? surely you're just trolling us with that.
you seem to be confusing your broke peers at the rallies with the republican base. he's not getting huge chunks of republican support from places other republicans got it in past elections. for example, he's not getting the upper middle class to wealthy republicans in the philadelphia suburbs, which he needs to win.
trump only has 55% of republican support in his home state of NY for god's sake. not 55% of new yorkers -- 55% of republicans. I'm not sure you realize how disastrous that is.
lol at the democrats are disillusioned. what democrats have come out as "never hillary". None. now compare that with the #nevertrump movement. see my point?
you think the republicans will feel compelled to show up cause they think the election will be stolen if they don't? again your conclusions are all wrong. if they think it's rigged, they won't show up at all, especially for a candidate they despise anyway. have you ever heard a presidential candidate openly contemplate losing like trump is doing now? remember when he used to brag about the polls? lol, what happened? the last week all you've heard about is him saying the election will be rigged and how poorly he's doing in the polls. translation -- i'm clearly going to lose. you think that gets his people fired up?
FUCK YA CAMPAIGN SHAKEUPS FTW, WE'RE TAKING IT UP A NOTCH
:MAKEITSO
I'll put 50:1 down on Trump winning to anyone who wants to take it. If you are all so certain of her winning, please make some easy money.
I can tell these group of reporter’s support trump and work hard to make sure they aren't biased when writing their condescending articles about trump.
Lol at embedded, more like an ugly chick that can't get the hint.
These "embedded" journalist really are a joke. They get zero info, just speculate, and don't like Donald, so why bother even reading garbage from these libtards.
"Druff would suck his own dick if it were long enough"- Brandon "drexel" Drexel
"ann coulter literally has more common sense than pfa."-Sonatine
"Real grinders supports poker fraud"- Ray Davis
"DRILLED HER GOOD"- HONGKONGER
You're going off half cocked you tight eyed gook.
You only know what you swallow from the left wing dick.
Try and read different news sites every now and then, maybe get a little prospective from all sides, instead off only reading from sites that coddle to your manufacturered fear of Donald Trump.
Look at his rallies, we all know Donald isn't spending shit on his election so he definitely isn't filling seats by paying people, versus the democrats that have been caught time and time again paying people to attend hillary rallies.
"Druff would suck his own dick if it were long enough"- Brandon "drexel" Drexel
"ann coulter literally has more common sense than pfa."-Sonatine
"Real grinders supports poker fraud"- Ray Davis
"DRILLED HER GOOD"- HONGKONGER
Haven't been reading all this tl;dr shite, but I would like to mention that the jew hating Nixon had Henry Kissinger as his Secretary of State.
no mint, i'm sure you're right and everything is running smoothly in trump's camp. winning campaigns switch campaign managers (for the second time lol) in mid-august all the time...
even if you don't believe every public poll (includeing breitbart's which has trump losing), you better believe that trump's internal polls have him getting crushed or he never would have replaced manafort.
Last edited by blake; 08-17-2016 at 09:29 AM.
I leave the forum for a few and you guys start arguing about the non issues like true sheep.
SNAP OUT OF IT! This election is about one issue, the TPP. Oh and Assange just told Amy Goodman that only 15% of the TPP is known to the public. Nah that's not strange at all.
Edit: Pressure your congressman and we need to start a boycott.
Apple and Nike are huge sponsors. The founding fathers of sweat shops and child labor smh.
I own all kinds of their stuff, never again.
Last edited by FPS_Russia; 08-17-2016 at 11:20 AM.
Once you're in the crazy column, you're toast.
How many people have you thought crazy and changed your mind? Doesn't happen. You can fade all kinds of negatives, but you're not fading crazy. That temperament shit sticks.
Men can deal with crazy, because we often know it's all sound and fury signifying nothing, but you aren't getting those security moms back. And this is all just running out the clock without them. As someone who has an explosive temper and lost my shit regularly in a big way in my youth, I learned that lesson the hard way. You can be a puppy dog for 6 months after, but once a woman has seen that shit, they don't unsee it. They're always afraid it will turn their way at some point on some deep level, and they aren't going to pull the lever and risk their kids lives.
I figure he needs a 9/11 level incident to make crazy attractive, and he's not even the good calculating diabolical crazy, so that might not even work. He's more mean and unbalanced in a simpleton way. That mocking the disabled reporter montage is in every ad every day in Ohio. Sometimes it's parents with a disabled kid talking about how it made their kid feel, other times it's random. This week it's all the foxnews heads like Krauthammer saying they'd be uncomfortable if he had nuclear codes with Trump doing that spasm in the corner of the screen. So even some old grandma in the bubble who is watching the Olympics to see that colored girl do gymnastics is seeing their favorite fox news people calling him too crazy.
He's going to bleed everyone else while rolling up white men and simply get stomped.
Never forget
"Druff would suck his own dick if it were long enough"- Brandon "drexel" Drexel
"ann coulter literally has more common sense than pfa."-Sonatine
"Real grinders supports poker fraud"- Ray Davis
"DRILLED HER GOOD"- HONGKONGER
The interesting thing about this election is that Hillary may be even more crazy than Trump. Could you imagine how many crazy Hillary moments there'd be if she made one fourth of the public appearances of Trump. She could totally blow it in a debate w Trump imo.
There's some weird shit going on w her health. She's up there in age, she's always on the road, pending indictments and investigations, getting interrogated by the feds, no telling what kind of scandals she has to worry about being discovered. Intense scrutiny from the
entire world.
Between her health and impeachment I'd say 70% chance we see Pres. Kaine before the end of her first term.
Last edited by FPS_Russia; 08-17-2016 at 01:04 PM.
So, this is less a presidential campaign right now and more the beginnings of a TV/Media company? Breitbart guy, Ailes and Trump. They could take some business from FOX, for sure.
Interesting theory but I don't think so, women think women are crazier than men. And when it comes down to it, most women or just ppl in general learned that when times are tough, u ask Dad to fix the problem, not mom
Also, Trump is doing much better with blacks than the 1% number the media is trying to push.
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