New Trump Team Tries to Recast Image

“Newly installed campaign chief executive Stephen Bannon and campaign manager Kellyanne Conway are steering Donald Trump away from a preoccupation with rallies and wall-to-wall TV interviews toward ‘moments,’ in the new managers’ parlance, that show him as presidential, with a caring side,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Mr. Trump said efforts by previous campaign leaders to remake him into a politician were ‘dishonest.’ … The Republican nominee said he was more comfortable with his new team, which has succeeded in some of the same changes sought by former campaign chairman Paul Manafort: Mr. Trump is sticking closer to a teleprompter, giving more policy details in speeches–and making fewer off-the-cuff remarks, which hurt his campaign after the GOP convention this summer.”