Parscale replacement ‘shocked’ Trump
campaign staffers, despite speculation
Fox News,
by
Brooke Singman
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
7/16/2020 4:18:12 AM
Brad Parscale’s abrupt demotion Wednesday night “shocked” some inside the Trump campaign, sources familiar with the move told Fox News, even as President Trump’s sliding poll numbers and the recent Tulsa rally debacle had raised questions about his future.
The president announced on Facebook and later on Twitter Wednesday night that Parscale would be replaced as campaign manager by Bill Stepien, who had served as deputy campaign manager. Parscale, who ran Trump’s digital advertising in 2016 and was promoted to Trump’s right hand man for the 2020 cycle, is expected to shift back to his previous role.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Daisymay 7/16/2020 7:13:37 AM (No. 479841)
Gosh Mr. President, How about remembering who took you to the Dance. Kellyanne Conway did a great job bringing Trump to a huge win in 2016. Why not put HER in charge again!!
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Trump can choose whoever he wants, but everyone needs to understand that the polls are useless.
In this time of violent attack on the streets, online attack by the thought police, and pictures of mail carriers destroying political mail..... I would never tell a stranger who calls my phone and knows where I live, how I plan to vote.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Muguy 7/16/2020 7:46:36 AM (No. 479871)
The President can shake up his re-election team as he sees fit.
The data that Parscale was providing on breakdowns of the popular "Trump Rallies" was a feast:
Up to 15% of attendees who had not voted in 2016 and were new supporters,
Hillary voters were 15-25% of attendees
So the potential for new converts or the newly interested could be potentially from 20-35%
That is BEFORE the plandemic hit, and then the small arena and low numbers in Tulsa came in and he had inflated the interest versus those who actually showed up..... that was likely the deciding factor in the shuffle.
By the way, other stories has shown that the Tulsa rally no little or no effect on the spread of Covid... The potential for catching it is two weeks, with about two weeks recovery using drugs we have, sot it takes about a month to settle and the recoveries have to be verified by a medical professional so, those numbers are always about a month behind.
Since Covid is not a death sentence, there is a VERY HIGH recovery rate, but due to the time lag of 'recoveries' being reported it looks worse than it actually is--
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bighambone 7/16/2020 8:03:05 AM (No. 479888)
By now personnel decisions made by very flexible President Trump should not be shocking anyone who has been paying attention.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
philsner 7/16/2020 8:33:00 AM (No. 479929)
Is anyone else getting tired of these media orgasms?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
gop_guys 7/16/2020 8:36:06 AM (No. 479934)
Does Kayleigh McEnany have a sister?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bpl40 7/16/2020 8:40:20 AM (No. 479943)
The situation in 2020 is very different from 2016. Then, an inexperienced candidate was running on promises. His opponent was very unpopular (or hated if you will) by large segments of the electorate. This time a President has to run against an opponent who is not hated that bitterly. Simply attacking him constantly ( remember crooked Hillary) will not pay similar dividends. New tactics and different personalities are required. PDT has shown throughout that he is a shrewd judge of people's strengths and especially weaknesses. I would say -trust him.
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Any 'journalist' who uses the phrase 'raised/raises questions' should be placed in the stocks.
It is at that early moment in any story when reporting has ceased and speculation has begun.
It is a cliche. It is a dodge. It is a thinly-veiled attempt to inject opinion, usually disapproval. It is a preferred rhetorical device of the NY Times and Washington Post along with 'it's unclear.'
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
mathman 7/16/2020 9:13:53 AM (No. 479997)
Okay. Let's see their names.
Let's watch them get FIRED.
Look under a rock and you will find a NeverTrumper.
Right there with the worms and maggots.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
stablemoney 7/16/2020 9:15:02 AM (No. 479999)
The fact that some campaign staffers did not sense this coming reflects why Parscale was replaced. It has been obvious that the campaign is not getting the job done to anyone that is watching closely. If you are not good on tv, you are not lasting long with Trump.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/16/2020 9:29:11 AM (No. 480013)
#8, I would add "sliding poll numbers," "shake-up" and "rally debacle" to your list of hints that the snarky writer is going to attempt a hatchet job on Donald Trump but has very little to prove her point other than speculation.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
MDConservative 7/16/2020 9:45:59 AM (No. 480042)
Perhaps PDT is waking up to the basic fact that he is running for re-election and now has a record to deal with, successful and otherwise. #7 has it right. New tactics and a different personality is required. It's easier to be the insurgent "outsider" leading the disaffected then the guy where the buck supposedly stops. In this day of pandemic, real or not, rallies aren't the vehicle. Many jurisdictions will not allow them. (And if the campaign cannot maintain some level of ticket distribution security...)
The other thing is that many are whistling past the graveyard, apparently believing that America loves PDT, that this election is in the bag, that any down info must be media lies. Maybe. But understand this...there are forces at work in this election unlike any unleashed before. There is a significant cadre of major Republicans (many once darlings of "real Republicans") who abhor all things Trump, and who have the political celebrity, cred and resources to wreak havoc during the campaign. There are PDT haters who will crawl that broken glass to see him ignominiously and ceremoniously dismissed from office in January '21. The mission for these is to Dump Trump...and this is a UNIPARTY operation, like previous others that have failed. Sell these forces short if it makes you feel better...know they are out there and not a trifle.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Robert Jones 7/16/2020 9:49:05 AM (No. 480047)
Trump can do what he wants. Obviously Parscales is still fighting the 2016 battle, Trump needs a plan like Gingrich’s Contract with America. Trump is right to shuffle the deck.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 7/16/2020 9:49:44 AM (No. 480050)
Parscale was over his head.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
justavoter 7/16/2020 10:03:22 AM (No. 480076)
Seems to be a wise decision. Number crunchers are just that, number crunchers working behind the scenes. It was apparent the Parscales was off his game as the front man. He may have had all the numbers, he just didn't know what to do after he got them. I think Parscales will be quite happy to retreat to the back room and crunch the numbers while someone else gets all the arrows slung their way.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Arby 7/16/2020 10:12:18 AM (No. 480095)
The Donald is hands-on. That's his way and so far his way has worked, big time.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 7/16/2020 10:22:25 AM (No. 480110)
Reads like fake news to me.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Kate318 7/16/2020 10:30:39 AM (No. 480127)
Can’t believe that Republicans still get snookered into the manufactured polling data, when dealing with Republican presidential elections.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
mindsport 7/16/2020 10:41:30 AM (No. 480162)
Trump always has a bigger far more reaching agenda. Parscales worth is indeed the Digital communication side of the house. With the biases and censorship of social media this is where Trump needs someone whom he trusts that can focus 100% of their energies.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
DVC 7/16/2020 10:50:15 AM (No. 480185)
National polls NEVER mean anything in a Presidential election. We vote by states, only state-wide polls have any validity, and then you have to run all the biggest states, or, at minimum, the states where it could go either way, and then add up the Electoral College votes.
That is more work than the lazy, stupid media want to do, so they fake up a national poll and then pretend it means something when it doesn't.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
lana720 7/16/2020 10:59:12 AM (No. 480213)
Brad Parscale is a genius.
OTOH, who here ever heard of a Brooke Singman before this?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
janjan 7/16/2020 11:01:09 AM (No. 480217)
Who cares who he chooses to run his campaign.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
DVC 7/16/2020 12:14:12 PM (No. 480317)
Being a good data person does not ensure being a good overall manager. And frequently, those who are good with computers are NOT good managing people.
This isn't surprising or bad. And, I do wonder why KellyAnne isn't running it again.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
bmw50 7/16/2020 12:37:49 PM (No. 480347)
I'm afraid these fake poll numbers were created so Trump would react the way he did, and get rid of Parscale, a brilliant man who helped him so much to get elected. I sure hope this was not a mistake or over reaction on Trumps part, we can't afford a mistake like that!
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
SavageRider 7/16/2020 12:43:13 PM (No. 480355)
Anyone on the campaign team not paying attention might have been surprised, but I wasn't. Parscale is a digital genius and his work in identifying where the Trump support was and getting out the vote was a major part of the 2016 victory. Parscale has been working every day since the last election to improve data acquisition for this election. Being the Digital General and Campaign General is too much work for one person to do well. Parscale is a geek data guy. Stepien is a people person involved in hand-to-hand politicking for a long time. Stepien steers the ship, and Parscale mans the guns, as Hogan Gidley so well phrased the movement this morning. I see this as a definite positive, with Trump adjusting for the timeline of the election.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
OK state mom 7/16/2020 4:44:14 PM (No. 480615)
Trump people must have believed at least some of the polling data. I know as a Trump supporter what I see and hear is demoralizing.
Kellyanne can't take it over due to her husband. We don't need the drama of her marriage, her children along with the campaign.
The Dems are controlling the news cycle. Joe Biden is playing the best game he can: come out once a week, give a boring speech, blame Trump for Covid, Covid deaths, Covid economy and not take one question. Covid deaths may yet soar, economy may get worse. It is trying to control a run away train.
Biden will not debate Trump. Write it down. Take bets. It will not happen. Biden has everything to lose in a debate: complete exposure of his mental decline.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
4Justice 7/16/2020 9:20:53 PM (No. 480797)
It wasn't his campaign manager that is losing his election, its he, himself, who is losing supporters with things he says and does. He has lost focus and lets himself get into petty arguments over nothing. He is no longer acting ike a leader of the free world. That frightens me.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
judy 7/16/2020 11:19:51 PM (No. 480908)
Fox sure is obsessed with Pascale's replacement..75% of Fox is unwatchable ....Martha & Sandra Smith are becoming complete jerks.
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