Reince Priebus on Trump campaign hires: 'I go with the flow'

• RNC chairman says new campaign manager is doing a ‘phenomenal job’
• Refrains from speculating about Breitbart’s Stephen Bannon

Tom McCarthy
Sunday 28 August 2016 19.11 BST

Channelling Lao Tzu, Glenn Frey and Jeffrey “the Dude” Lebowski, Republican national committee chairman Reince Priebus said on Sunday that when it came to personnel issues with the Donald Trump campaign, “I go with the flow.”

“Look, you know, I go with the flow based on what the campaign wants to do,” Priebus told NBC’s Meet the Press. “I think Kellyanne is doing a phenomenal job. I don’t know Steve Bannon, to tell you the truth, very well.”

Kellyanne is Kellyanne Conway, the pollster who was promoted to campaign manager by Trump two weeks ago. Bannon is the driving force behind the rightwing Breitbart website who was named campaign “CEO” in the same round of musical chairs.

For a less chill national party chairman, the kind of headlines about Bannon that have surfaced in the last week could be a real bummer. Bannon’s past includes domestic violence charges, allegations of antisemitism and a mysterious arrangement in which he was registered to vote at a home where he did not live.

“I’m going to get to know him,” Priebus told Meet the Press host Chuck Todd, 72 days before the election.

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