The Orange Menace is doubling down. As if we all thought he couldn’t get any crazier:
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.
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 (anonymously-cited campaign] 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.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/08/17/trump-reshuffles-staff-in-his-own-image/
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/8/16/1560973/-What-a-joke-Trump-turns-to-Breitbart-exec-to-rearrange-deck-chairs-on-his-sinking-ship
CNN: The last time Trump toured America, he was, uh, booked into 10,000 seat arenas, and 15,000 seat venues, and it seems that now, on his current tour he’s being booked into 1,200 seat hotel ballrooms, and uh I was just wondering, does this mean uh...his popularity is waning?
Bannon: Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no...no, no, not at all. I, I, I just think that his. uh.. his appeal is becoming more selective.
..too easy!
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LMAO!!
Well that's an interesting strategy to win an election. Appeal more strongly to fewer voters!
becoming more selective."
