Story highlights Sean Spicer said the RNC and the Trump campaign will work closely together

Donald Trump had a tense relationship with the RNC throughout the primary

Washington (CNN) Donald Trump's campaign and the Republican party will coordinate more closely going forward, with the GOP's top communicator and chief strategist Sean Spicer increasingly working out of Trump campaign headquarters, the campaign confirmed Sunday.

Spicer, the Republican National Committee communications director and chief strategist, will "spend more time" with the Trump operation in New York, campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said.

"He's going to be spending more time here," Conway said Sunday on ABC's "This Week."

A source familiar with the move told CNN that how much time Spicer spends working out of the campaign's headquarters each week will vary.

The move comes amid a recent campaign shake-up that saw the departure of campaign chairman Paul Manafort alongside the promotion of Conway to campaign manager and installation of Breitbart executive Steve Bannon as the campaign chief executive.

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