Donald Trump might have new leadership in his campaign — but "the issue is, are the advisers going to tell Donald what he has to hear or tell Donald what he wants to hear?" former senior campaign consultant Sam Nunberg told Newsmax TV on Wednesday.
"If this is about, basically, letting Donald be Donald, then this will be a losing campaign," Nunberg, who supported Ted Cruz in the primaries, told "Newsmax Prime" host J.D. Hayworth.
Trump named Breitbart News executive chairman Stephen Bannon as his campaign's chief executive of his election effort, supplanting chairman Paul Manafort. He also promoted pollster and senior adviser Kellyanne Conway to campaign manager.
"If this is going to be a campaign run on themes that we only see on Breitbart — meaning immigration, a wall, and Clinton cash — I can tell you that that may work in a primary," Nunberg said.
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"But when we get to 130 million people voting, that's not going to be a message that's going to win a general election.
"I know that Paul has struggled with Donald on this," he told Hayworth. "If Donald wants to go out the way Donald wants to go out — on his own terms — that's fine.
"But it's just that I don't think it's a message that's going to work."
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