Conservative activists who had issued a dire warning to President-elect Trump not to choose Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus as his chief of staff shifted sharply after Trump plowed ahead with the decision anyway.
The sting of naming Priebus was softened when the transition team announced that Steve Bannon, the chairman of Breitbart News, would serve as chief strategist and senior counselor to Trump and would have equal footing in carrying out Trump’s agenda.
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