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There's No Hiding the Real Donald Trump
Advisers haven't been successful at getting the Republican nominee to appear more presidential.By Kenneth T. Walsh | Contributor
Aug. 19, 2016, at 6:00 a.m.
Donald Trump's presidential campaign is turning into a psycho-drama in which the Republican candidate's foibles, strengths, weaknesses, pugnacity, grudges, resentments and flip flops play out day after day. All this provides grist for his opponents, his fans, journalists and everyday voters to dissect him with increasing intensity as they ask the question: What is Donald Trump really all about?
The Republican presidential nominee's latest gambit was to reshuffle his campaign team this week – the second time this has happened in the past two months. He hired Stephen Bannon, executive chairman of Breitbart News, to be the campaign's chief executive, and promoted Kellyanne Conway, a GOP pollster and Trump adviser, to be campaign manager. Paul Manafort, the campaign chairman, will retain his title but the moves are widely seen as a dilution of Manafort's authority. The shift apparently means that Trump will persist, at least for now, in his combative approach, which both Bannon and Conway are known to support.
Races for the White House are character tests of would-be presidents, and Trump is not wearing well as the pressure mounts. He has never run for elective office before. A full-fledged presidential campaign seems more than he bargained for, less subject to his will than he expected, less easily manipulated than was possible during the GOP primaries. His gaffes and over-the-top persona are exposing him to more ridicule than ever. And he appears to be making up his campaign as he goes along.
Trump has been complaining with increasing intensity about his plight – his sagging poll numbers and rising unfavorability ratings among voters. "I am not only fighting Crooked Hillary (Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee)," he tweeted recently. "I am fighting the dishonest and corrupt media and her government protection process."
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