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Trump Shakes Up Staff After Ailes Is Said to Urge Big Changes

Trump names Breitbart’s Steve Bannon campaign CEO and pollster Kellyanne Conway campaign manager.

Donald Trump Stays the Same Amid Campaign Shakeup

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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump overhauled his campaign leadership Wednesday, demoting an operative brought in to professionalize the operation and appointing one known for stoking hardcore conservatives on the web.

Stephen K. Bannon, the executive chairman of crusading right-wing site Breitbart News and a former Goldman Sachs banker, was named chief executive of the campaign after former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, according to a person familiar with the matter, urged that a struggling Trump make dramatic changes.