Trump shakes up team amid campaign chaos

Donald Trump restructured his campaign team for the second time in two months, fending off suggestions that his presidential run is in crisis as polls show Hillary Clinton cruising towards victory.

The Republican White House nominee, who is tanking in swing states to his Democratic rival, hired a news executive from a virulently anti-Clinton website as his campaign CEO and promoted a leading Republican strategist to campaign manager.

That CEO is Stephen Bannon, executive chairman of the popular conservative website Breitbart News, and the new manager is leading Republican pollster Kellyanne Conway.

Paul Manafort, the Trump campaign chairman who in recent days has come under scrutiny for his links to the pro-Russia former president of Ukraine, will remain in his current role.

Clinton is leading Trump, 47.3 percent to 41.2 percent, according to the Real Clear Politics polling average. The Republican languishes behind her in virtually every key battleground state, raising the prospect of a Clinton landslide win.

With 82 days to go until the election, Trump's campaign has been listing badly following a recent series of gaffes that had even members of his own party begging him to reel in his brash remarks.

Trump's denigration of the family of a fallen Muslim-American soldier was seen by many as a monumental campaign misstep and a turning point in the contentious 2016 presidential race.

In a surpris move, Trump on Tuesday made his first substantial pitch to African American voters, telling voters in Wisconsin that Democrats had "betrayed" them.

Trump's outreach to black voters came after he said earlier Tuesday that he would reject bigotry "in all forms" if elected president.

It was another unexpected move from the Republican nominee who during his presidential campaign has vowed to ban Muslim immigrants and erect a wall to prevent Mexican immigration.