Former President Donald Trump just made some huge changes to his campaign team, bringing back Corey Lewandoski, who he originally fired during his 2016 presidential campaign just a few weeks prior to the Republican Convention. Lewandowski’s new role will be as a “senior advisor.” All other campaign chiefs are retaining their positions. The shakeup comes about as a group of polls from battleground states have revealed that Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, is beginning to siphon off support for him.
According to the UK’s Daily Mail, the campaign isn’t referring to the move as a “shakeup” but an effort to give their current structure a much needed boost. The former president took to social media to create a post where he referred to his current campaign chiefs, Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita as “THE BEST.” That’s not the kind of thing Trump says unless he means it, so if he says these two are killing it on his staff, then that’s what they are doing.
‘Many people want to join the Campaign for the final push, some from the first two Campaigns – And we want as many as we can get!’ Trump stated in the post.
In Lewandowski, who helmed Trump’s original 2016 effort before being pushed out in a shake-up, the campaing has a new senior advisor who knows Trump’s habits and titled his book off the mantra of: ‘Let Trump be Trump.’ It comes at a time when outside advisors are saying the campaign could use some more guardrails to keep the candidate from going full-on, as when he called new opponent Kamala Harris ‘not very smart’ in an economic speech where he held up a box of Tic Tacs.
Also coming on board are Taylor Budowich, who ran the super PAC MAGA, Inc., Tim Murtaugh, who served as Trump’s communications chief in 2024, Alex Pfeiffer, and Alex Bruesewitz, a consultant who had been considering a run for Congress in Wisconsin. Pfeiffer and Bruesewitz were both officials at MAG, Inc.
‘As we head into the home stretch of this election, we are continuing to add to our impressive campaign team,’ Wiles and LaCivita remarked in a statement. ‘Corey Lewandowski, Taylor Budowich, Alex Pfeiffer, Alex Bruesewitz, and Tim Murtaugh are all veterans of prior Trump campaigns and their unmatched experience will help President Trump prosecute the case against Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, the most radical ticket in American history.’
One of the officials working with Trump’s campaign commented on Lewandowski joining the team, calling it an “addition to the campaign,” and pointed back to the statement the former president made about it not being a shakeup of current staff members.
Trump fired Lewandowski, who had steered his campaign through New Hampshire and the early primaries, in June of 2016, after having brought on Paul Manafort as chief strategist. Manafort would resign by August, and Trump brought on Kellyanne Conway as campaign manager and Steve Bannon for the remainder of his White House run.
‘I am pleased to announce that Corey Lewandowski, who was very involved in 2016, will be coming on board as a Senior Advisor. Others, likewise, are joining us. They’ll be announced soon!’ Trump announced in his post.
If Trump believes Lewandowski can help give him a boost over Harris, I’m on board with it. Whatever it takes at this point.
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