What to expect from the new Team Trump
from the Washington Post’s reporting:
While Trump respects [campaign chairman Paul] 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.
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.
That’s right, as far as the Republican nominee is concerned, Americans have seen a constrainedversion of Donald J. Trump in recent months. This has been the GOP candidate at his most guarded.
In other words, with his new team in place, Trump intends to stop pulling his punches and start beingeven more outlandish in the presidential campaign’s final 12 weeks.
It’s not quite an acceptance of defeat, but it’s something similar: a decision to stop caring what might appeal to a broad national audience and start doing what makes the candidate feel good.
And to that end, Trump has chosen a CEO who will encourage him to do precisely what he wants to do anyway. The New York Times’ report added:
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.
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