Top aides to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign met Thursday with the Republican Party elite in an effort to allay concerns over his insurgent candidacy. Meeting with the same individuals their candidate has derided for months, newly-empowered Trump convention manager Paul Manafort and political director Rick Wiley led a 20-min presentation Thursday afternoon to make the case for Trump as a general election candidate. Manafort focused his remarks on how Trump will reposition himself for the general election, saying Trump would take steps to recast himself as a more serious candidate, beginning with a foreign policy speech next week.