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Trump announces two additions to senior campaign staff

By Eric DuVall
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a rally outside Pittsburgh on Tuesday. The campaign announced it has hired two women as senior advisers. Photo by Archie Carpenter/UPI
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a rally outside Pittsburgh on Tuesday. The campaign announced it has hired two women as senior advisers. Photo by Archie Carpenter/UPI | License Photo

NEW YORK, July 1 (UPI) -- Donald Trump announced the hiring of two women as senior advisers on his campaign, the latest in a series of staff additions to fill out his rapidly expanding inner circle of advisers.

Pollster Kellyanne Conway will serve as senior adviser to campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and Karen Giorno, who ran Trump's Florida primary operation, will also assume the role of senior adviser to the campaign, focusing on the all-important swing state in the general election, the campaign said.

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Conway has been a Republican pollster for many years and previously worked for Sen. Ted Cruz, a point the Trump campaign emphasized in its statement announcing the hirings.

"Kellyanne is a tremendous asset to our rapidly-expanding campaign team. She is a data and messaging expert and terrific on TV. It is great to have her on board," Trump said.

Trump also lauded Giorno for her work helping engineer a crucial Florida victory for Trump in March.

"Karen is a valuable asset to my team and a consummate professional. She has done a tremendous for me in Florida in the primary, which I won in a landslide, and I am certain we will win Florida again in the general election," Trump said.

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