Paul Begala dismissed Donald Trump's campaign reshuffling. | AP Clinton super PAC adviser dismisses Trump reshuffle: 'It's the candidate, stupid’

Former Bill Clinton adviser Paul Begala, who serves a senior adviser to the pro-Hillary Clinton Priorities USA super PAC, mocked the notion that Donald Trump’s campaign shakeup represented anything more than a rearranging of the deck chairs of the Titanic.

"It's the candidate, stupid," Begala told CNN Wednesday morning.


He was adapting a phrase from Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign.

Early Wednesday morning, Trump’s campaign announced the hiring of pollster Kellyanne Conway as campaign manager and Breitbart News Chairman Stephen Bannon as campaign chief executive.

Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol echoed some of Begala's sentiment in an interview on MSNBC Wednesday morning, saying: "I don’t think it matters because the problem is Donald Trump. You know, his unfavorable rating has been consistently too high to win a presidential election. Hillary Clinton’s, you would normally say is too high, but it’s about 10 points lower than Trump’s. And that’s what it’s about."