On Fox, Rudy Giuliani Compares Trump Staff Shake-Up To Ronald Reagan Bringing In James Baker

Giuliani: “This Is What Ronald Reagan Did When He Brought Jim Baker In”

From the August 17 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:

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STEVE DOOCY (CO-HOST): At 2 o'clock this morning, The Wall Street Journal broke this story that the campaign, the Trump campaign has made some campaign tweaks. Guy by the name of Steve Bannon taking the lead from Breitbart to be the campaign chief executive. Pollster Kellyanne Conway's going to be his campaign manager. Paul Manafort stays in place. What's going on?

RUDY GIULIANI: More people. The campaign is getting bigger and bigger and bigger. A lot of people think he has no organization. Good, I like them to think that. The reality is I've now traveled to a number of states with Donald and I have seen the organization that he has and it's --

BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): Are people upset with Manafort? Is that why he's getting some help at the top? Maybe the strategy isn't working out to the -- 

GIULIANI: I don't think it's about strategy. I think it's about management, making sure you have the right number of people in place to manage an organization that's grown dramatically. This organization is probably -- I wasn't there for most of the primaries, so I can't tell you. 

KILMEADE: It was a bad month, Mr. Mayor. And you do make changes. Every team makes changes.

GIULIANI: Oh no, this is a good thing. This is what Ronald Reagan did when he brought Jim Baker in. Jim Baker had been his opponent's -- it would be like him bringing Ted Cruz's campaign manager and that turned out to be the thing that turned the campaign around or helped to turn it around. The main thing is -- forget the staff. I mean the staff is enormously important, the most important thing is the candidate, and Donald Trump had two tremendous days.

Previously:

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