The Trump presidential campaign has brought back veteran members roughly 80 days before the 2024 election.
Corey Lewandowski, who served as President Donald Trump’s campaign manager in 2016, is one of several experienced officials who have joined the reelection effort.
“How could anyone not be excited to help elect this man?” he said on X on Thursday. “I’ve been with President [Donald Trump] since Day 1, worked for him in 2016 & 2020, and I’m excited to be back on the Campaign Team to help deliver victory in 2024. 81 Days Left - Let Trump, Be Trump!”
Lewandowski previously served as the National Director of Voter Registration of Americans for Prosperity and Americans for Prosperity Foundation. He was also the Northeast Political Director for the Republican National Committee. After his time with Trump’s first campaign, the 50-year-old continued to appear on television as a political commentator and lead his government and public affairs consulting firm, Lewandowski Strategic Advisors.
“Lewandowski managed Trump’s first presidential campaign from before its inception in 2015 through the 2016 primaries,” reports Fox News. “He was fired from his job in June of that year but remained close to the then-GOP presidential nominee. Lewandowski, a New Hampshire resident, led his state’s delegation to that summer’s Republican National Convention in Cleveland.”
Lewandowski served as a top outside adviser while Trump was in the White House and as an advisor on his 2020 presidential campaign.
"I have been very blessed for the last decade to have had an incredible relationship with a candidate, a president, and a post-president. That has never wavered or changed," said Lewandowski in May.
The campaign advisor is not without controversy. In 2021, he left the MAGA Action PAC after being accused by Trashelle Odom – the wife of a Trump donor – of making unwanted sexual advances at a fundraiser in Las Vegas.
In addition to Lewandowski, Tim Murtaugh has returned to the Trump campaign. Murtaugh served as the communications director for the Republican’s 2020 campaign.
Murtaugh is a Washington Times columnist and a communications consultant. In April of 2024, he released Swing Hard in Case You Hit It, a memoir about his journalism career and his experience with alcoholism.
Murtaugh accused the corporate press of covering up “President Biden’s dramatic cognitive decline” and of gaslighting “Americans regarding his mental and physical condition” in a July op-ed.
“All journalists who have been present when Mr. Biden exhibited incoherence, memory lapses or prolonged breaks with the world around him and who did not report what they had seen because they were protecting their favored candidate ought to resign from journalism immediately,” he wrote. “They knew the truth about Mr. Biden but decided you shouldn’t. And that’s why you should never trust them again.”
Other new campaign members include Alex Pfeiffer and Alex Bruesewitz, who served on the MAGA Inc. Super PAC, as well as Taylor Budowich, a former Trump aide and 2020 campaign spokesman.
“As we head into the home stretch of this election, we are continuing to add to our impressive campaign team,” said Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita, Trump co-campaign managers, in a statement, per POLITICO. “Their unmatched experience will help President Trump prosecute the case against Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, the most radical ticket in American history.”
