'Rearranging the deck chairs is not an effective strategy,' fretted one top aide.
In a normal election season, any party loyalist would welcome a campaign shakeup as a sign that a beleaguered candidate was righting the ship.
But Donald Trump’s announcement of two new top campaign hands Wednesday — amid plummeting poll numbers — brought no such response. Instead, it stirred yet another round of private hand-wringing among Republicans in the otherwise sleepy Capitol.
Donald Trump’s announcement of two new top campaign hands Wednesday stirred yet another round of private hand-wringing among Republicans in the Capitol.
“Rearranging the deck chairs is not an effective strategy. They have to change the course,” one top aide to a conservative House Republican said Wednesday. “Problem is not staff. The problem is with Trump.”
Trump’s allies say the naysayers are misreading the latest personnel strategy from the GOP nominee. The decision to tap pollster Kellyanne Conway as campaign manager and Breitbart News Chairman Stephen Bannon as the campaign’s chief executive was merely an expansion of the existing team, they said.
Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.), a first-term senator whose outsider-businessman profile meshes well with that of Trump, said in an interview Wednesday that bringing Conway and Bannon on board is “indicative of what good campaigns do” to position themselves after a party convention and ahead of November.
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