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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics.

It's Thursday, August 18th. I'm Evan Osnosed, a staff writer at The New Yorker writers and editors about politics. It's Thursday,

August 18th. I'm Evan Osnosed, a staff writer at The New Yorker, filling in for Dorothy Wicenden.

This week brought news of some big changes at the top ranks of the Republican campaign for

president. Donald Trump's campaign manager, Paul Manafort, will no longer have day-to-day control.

That now belongs to an aggressive new hire, the chairman of Breitbart News, a man named

Stephen Bannon.

Also on board is Roger Ailes, the ousted chairman of Fox News, who will be helping Trump prepare

for presidential debates.

And none of this, however, has changed the positions of the candidates' two most

stalwart advisors, his daughter, Ivanka Trump, and her husband, the young mogul named Jared Kushner.

In July, it was Ivanka, who introduced her father as the Republican nominee for president.

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