Trump campaign official Corey Lewandowski denied rumors of a shakeup in the former president’s campaign team, saying the leadership remains the same.
Lewandowski, Trump’s 2016 campaign chairman who recently joined his 2024 campaign team, told Fox News Sunday that campaign managers Suzie Wiles and Chris LaCivita will remain in charge.
“We’re focused on one thing: making sure Donald Trump has the opportunity to lay out his vision for America over the next nine weeks,” Lewandowski said.
Lewandowski was a controversial figure who was fired by Trump in 2016 for grabbing a reporter’s arm and then lost his job managing a pro-Trump fund four years later amid allegations that he made unwanted sexual advances on a Trump donor, but returned to the campaign trail last month.
Speculation that Lewandowski might be named campaign chairman came as Trump’s approval ratings began to slip against a restructured Democratic campaign, with some reports claiming that Trump has “become superstitious and nostalgic lately.”
But there is growing speculation that Wiles and LaCivita could be sidelined and replaced by Lewandowski and former presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway, but this has not led to an intensified campaign.
“Mr. Trump believes Ms. Wiles and Ms. LaCivita are doing an excellent job, and any rumors to the contrary are false and not based on fact,” the Trump campaign said in a statement last month.
An ABC News/Ipsos poll released Sunday found Kamala Harris leading Trump by four points among registered voters, 50% to 46%, and by six points among likely voters, 52% to 46%.
Neither Trump nor Harris appeared to receive a boost from their respective conventions, but more voters said Harris was “too liberal” to be president (46%) than Trump was “too conservative” (43%).
“The race remains close and Harris’ overall support has not increased since the nominating convention,” said Gary Langer, president of Langer Research Associates, which conducted the survey.