U.S. ELECTION WRAP: Manafort Wins Trump Camp’s Game of Thrones

Paul Manafort, adviser to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, checks the teleprompters before Trump's speech on April 27, 2016, in Washington.
Photographer: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

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By Derek Wallbank, Danielle Bernstein and Gregory Giroux

June 20, 2016 at 9:18 PM UTC

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Corey Lewandowski, who’d plotted Donald Trump’s rise from a descending escalator at Trump Tower all the way to the cusp of the GOP presidential nomination, is out. In his place: Paul Manafort, who had been jostling with Lewandowski for control since being hired in March to shore up Trump’s fight for delegates.