LA Times: Bannon becoming informal advisor to Trump for campaign

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Neither Bannon nor Conway is officially involved in the reelection campaign, which is steered primarily by Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who continues to serve as a senior White House advisor.

Bannon, a staunch nationalist whom Trump fired six months after he took office, has been slowly working his way back as an informal advisor and has been in touch with the president in recent weeks about strategy. But a formal campaign role is unlikely, aides said

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“He can influence the president’s thinking without being part of the campaign,” one official explained, noting that Trump is loath to allow Bannon to be viewed as a leading intellectual force in the campaign, as he was four years ago. “The Svengali stuff doesn’t play well with Trump, so that hurt him.”

Brad Parscale, whom Kushner had picked as campaign manager in 2018, has “been sort of pushed aside” and has resumed his narrower 2016 role, running the data operation while Kushner oversees strategy, one campaign official said.

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