TETERBORO, N.J. — Donald Trump is shaking up his campaign again, bringing in Breitbart News’ Stephen Bannon as campaign CEO and promoting pollster Kellyanne Conway to campaign manager.

The move comes just 82 days before the election as a slew of national and battleground state polls show Trump losing to Hillary Clinton.

Trump told The Associated Press in a phone interview early Wednesday that he has known both individuals for a long time. He says, “They’re terrific people, they’re winners, they’re champs, and we need to win it,” he said.

Trump’s campaign chair, Paul Manafort, will maintain his current role.

“It is imperative we continue to expand our team with top-tier talent. Steve and Kellyanne are respected professionals who believe in Mr. Trump and his message and will undoubtedly help take the campaign to new levels of success,” Manafort said in a statement to reporters.

The move, however, is seen as a demotion of Manafort, who was promoted to right the ship after Trump got rid of his previous campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski.

Lewandowski praised the move. “You’ve got a candidate that wants to win,” he said on CNN’s “New Day,” comparing Bannon’s street fighting sensibilities to his own.

“This is a clear indication of that. If you look at Stephen Bannon and what they’ve built at Breitbart, it’s win at all cost, and I really think that makes people on the left very afraid because they are willing to say and do things that others in the mainstream media wouldn’t do,”

Bannon, a former Goldman Sachs banker who got rich after purchasing a stake in the hit show “Seinfeld,” has been running the Breitbart website, a pro-Trump clearing house.

In his own statement, Trump said, “I have known Steve and Kellyanne both for many years. They are extremely capable, highly qualified people who love to win and know how to win.”

The Republican presidential candidate added: “I believe we’re adding some of the best talents in politics, with the experience and expertise needed to defeat Hillary Clinton in November and continue to share my message and vision to Make America Great Again. I am committed to doing whatever it takes to win this election, and ultimately become President because our country cannot afford four more years of the failed Obama-Clinton policies which have endangered our financial and physical security.

With Post wire services