Donald Trump May As Well Have Conceded His Campaign Now

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The new shake-up for the Trump campaign may very well be the beginning of the end of his bid for the presidency.

Republican nominee Donald Trump has shaken up his campaign for the second time in as many months.

As The New York Times reports,  the first shake-up occurred back on June 20th when he fired Corey Lewandowski who had been serving as his campaign manager.

The second shakeup happened last night when the Trump campaign announced that current adviser Kellyanne Conway was promoted to campaign manager and Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen Bannon will serve as the campaign’s new CEO.

NBC News reports that “Current Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort will remain in his job, but his influence will diminish,” and The New York Times echoes that sentiment reporting that: “Paul Manafort, the campaign chairman, will retain his title. But the staffing change… was seen by some as a demotion for Mr. Manafort.”

This is relevant in light of the fact that Trump is known to be his own worst enemy. As NBC News and other news outlets have been reporting, Hillary Clinton is only widening her lead because Trump is losing support from his followers due to his erratic behavior.

NBC News reports that Manafort’s ascension “was an effort to professionalize his campaign, but with Conway and Bannon running things, the campaign is back to the business of Trump being Trump.

It’s a return to Lewandowski without Lewandowski: As NBC‘s Ali Vitali writes, Manafort’s earlier ascension was an effort to professionalize the campaign. “The expectation around Manafort’s installation was for a more traditional campaign in terms of structure, strategy and messaging.” But the Bannon-Conway moves represent a kind of return to Lewandowski — without him back. “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 Washington Post says.

Then there is the issue of Trump “doubling down on nationalism and being an outsider.”

As NBC News concludes:

No conservative news organization better reflects Trump’s nationalism and outsider status than Breitbart News, and Trump has now hired its chairman. As the Washington Post adds, “Breitbart News has been harshly critical of House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), and is seen as an antagonistic organ by congressional GOP leaders.”

One has to wonder that maybe Michael Moore and others are correct in thinking that Trump is trying to sabotage his own campaign.

Samuel Warde
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