Donald Trump’s former presidential campaign manager says voters must pick the billionaire over Hillary Clinton on Election Day.
“When you go to the ballot box, please remember: politicians have failed us for 30 years,” Corey Lewandowski wrote in a Yale Daily News op-ed published Monday.
{mosads}“They only care about one thing: getting reelected,” he added. “It’s time to send a clear message to Washington, D.C.: We, the people, get to set the course of our country.
“We don’t like the direction it’s heading in, and we are going to change it. Radical change requires a shock to the system. That shock is Donald Trump for president.”
Lewandowski said Trump’s business background gives him in an edge over his Democratic rival in ensuring the nation’s global trade agreements to benefit U.S. workers.
“Donald J. Trump has achieved remarkable success in every aspect of his life, whether as a best-selling author, a television personality, a businessman or more importantly as a father and grandfather,” he said of the Republican nominee.
“Bringing a winning mindset to the federal government is important if the United States is going to remain the dominant force in the world,” Lewandowski continued.
“Some might argue America is already great, but the bottom line is because of bad trade deals such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), other countries are eating our lunch.”
Lewandowski added Clinton embodies the entrenched political representation Trump would uproot.
“Isn’t it time we hold our elected officials accountable?” he asked, citing Clinton’s three decades in public service.
“We have seen this movie before. Politicians make promises they don’t keep, and then blame someone else for their inability to not deliver and ask for a promotion.”
Lewandowski is now a political commentator for CNN after serving as Trump’s campaign manager from January 2015 to June of this year. The Yale Daily News noted that it requested the column as part of a series on the election from insiders.
The Yale College Republicans endorsed Trump in August, causing a split in the group.