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Brad Parscale will remain part of the Trump campaign
Facing a tough re-election battle, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, replaced his campaign manager.
Trump said he had replaced Bill Stepien, a field director for his 2016 campaign, in place of Brad Parscale.
Parscale, who was reportedly blamed by Trump’s inner circle for a poorly attended meeting in Oklahoma last month, will remain chief adviser.
Opinion polls show the president follows his Democratic challenger Joe Biden ahead of the November election.
Mr. Trump’s statement on Facebook on Wednesday night said: “Brad Parscale, who has been with me for a long time and has led our tremendous digital and data strategies, will continue in that role, while being Senior Advisor to the campaign.” .
Parscale is said to have been sidelined in the past few weeks after the failure of the president’s return to Tulsa.
Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner, both White House advisers, are said to have blamed Parscale for the debacle.
Parscale boasted that more than a million people registered to attend, but fewer than 6,200 showed up at the arena, the local fire department said.
After the rally, Parscale went to Twitter to blame a locked security gate, protesters and the media for the disappointing turnout.
Her role as Trump’s strategist has apparently turned out to be lucrative for the 44-year-old man, who last year had bought a $ 2.4 million waterfront mansion in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Parscale, a cheeky figure who served as a warm-up act for Trump at the protests, was named campaign manager in February 2018.
American BBC partner CBS News recently reported that Parscale did not even vote in the 2016 election, citing his difficulty obtaining a ballot while working at Trump Tower in New York City.
He was Trump’s fourth campaign manager, following Kellyanne Conway, Paul Manafort, and Corey Lewandowski.
His replacement, Mr. Stepien, was a former assistant to former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.
Mr. Stepien’s name appeared in the so-called Bridgegate scandal, which was widely perceived to have ruined Mr. Christie’s presidential ambitions.
