with the average of polls showing rival hillary clinton ahead six percentage points less than a month before the gop convention in cleveland, embattled trump campaign manager corey lewandowski has been fired.









<u+201c>the donald j. trump campaign for president, which has set a historic record in the republican primary having received almost 14 million votes, has today announced that corey lewandowski will no longer be working with the campaign,<u+201d> the campaign spokeswoman, hope hicks, said in a statement, according to the new york times. <u+201c>the campaign is grateful to corey for his hard work and dedication and we wish him the best in the future.<u+201d>









according to nbc news, trump called lewandowski this morning to inform him of his firing after<u+00a0>an emergency meeting with family members and top advisers to right the ship, and to plot a more serious campaign strategy.









the announcement comes hours after an explosive gq profile of hicks revealed disturbing incidents of alleged abuse directed at the<u+00a0>27-year-old national press secretary from lewandowski.









<u+201c>you made a big f***ing mistake; you<u+2019>re f***ing dead to me,<u+201d> lewandowski allegedly told hicks after she expressed interest in leaving the campaign recently, bringing her to tears, according to former trump operative<u+00a0>sam nunberg. while lewandowski denied gq<u+2019>s reporting, the hotheaded campaign manager, of course, first grabbed the spotlight away from his boss when he was arrested for yanking<u+00a0>a female breitbart writer, an act he denied happened but was caught on camera. while the charges were eventually<u+00a0>dropped, trump remained loyal and committed to lewandowski even as reports<u+00a0>emerged that lewandowski had a history of making abusive, sexist, and sexual remarks to his female coworkers. according to reaction from at least one <u+201c>senior adviser<u+201d> to the trump campaign, lewandowski<u+2019>s ouster was welcome news:
trump<u+2019>s starting to panic: corey lewandowsi fired as campaign manager amid huge staff shakeup
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