After Donald Trump announced he had decided to make changes to the top tier of his presidential campaign staff, longtime conservative author, strategist and Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com Richard A. Viguerie issued the following statement:
Kellyanne Conway and Steve Bannon are movement conservatives. With Kellyanne and Steve at the top of the campaign, Mike Pence as Vice President and Senator Jeff Sessions at Donald Trump’s side the Trump campaign is shaping up to be the most ideological campaign since Ronald Reagan’s 1980 campaign against Jimmy Carter.
Trump’s recent speeches on jobs and the economy and on winning the war against radical Islam, and last night’s law and order speech in Milwaukee were full of solidly conservative policy and ideas that have been music to the ears of movement conservatives.
Unlike the failed campaigns of John McCain and Mitt Romney, who took the advice of the GOP establishment consultants and the media and moved to the center, Donald Trump has moved right to bring movement conservatives into partnership with the conservative populists who won him the Republican primaries. This is a winning coalition.
If the reports that Roger Ailes is advising Donald Trump on debate prep are true, and with Pence, Sessions, Conway and Bannon leading the campaign team, I expect the closing months of the Trump campaign to be based on the winning conservative issues of law and order, winning the war with radical Islam and rebuilding our economy by removing the $2 trillion regulatory drag of the Obama years.
Kellyanne Conway and Steve Bannon are two of the conservative movement’s most talented and trusted strategists. Trump’s decision to promote them to top leadership positions in his campaign will do much to close the deal with movement conservatives to actively support and vote for Donald Trump.
