Trump campaign spokesman Hogan Gidley said Thursday that Brad Parscale was not demoted, but instead switched to a digital strategy position on the Trump campaign team.
“While the DC elite and establishment and media really care about palace intrigue stories like this, it really doesn’t affect the American people at all. Titles consume so much here in the ring road bubble, but for those at home they just want to make sure their lives are better, “Gidley told” America’s Newsroom. “
TRUMP REPLACES CAMPAIGN MANAGER
Brad Parscale’s brusque move on Wednesday night “shocked” some within the Trump campaign, sources familiar with the move told Fox News, even as President Trump’s sliding poll numbers and the recent meeting debacle. Tulsa’s had raised questions about their 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 operations in 2016 and was promoted to Trump’s right-hand man for the 2020 cycle, is expected to return to his previous role.
Two senior campaign officials told Fox News that Parscale will serve as senior advisor focusing entirely on the campaign’s digital operation and data collection.
Gidley said Stepien is smart, talented, politically smart and has been in and out of Washington, DC, his entire career, and that Parscale had an impact on the Trump campaign.
“He has built something that nobody believed was possible. Raising money on clips that are at historical levels. We have raised enough money where Joe Biden would have to raise over a million dollars a day to be close to catching us and still would not, “Gidley said.
“Brad will focus on one thing, Bill will focus on the other, but they are both working to achieve victory for the American people and that means victory for Donald Trump,” said Gidley.
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Speculation has swirled for weeks about Parscale’s future, as Trump has lagged behind Democratic presidential challenger Joe Biden by double digits in multiple polls, and as the campaign struggled to fill seats for the president’s rally last month in Tulsa, Okla.
A source familiar with the situation said Parscale had been losing influence lately with other campaign officials, including Stepien, wielding more power. Stepien joined the campaign in May as deputy campaign manager after serving as political director at the White House.
There was also the return of Stephanie Alexander, who was on the campaign trail in 2016 and returned in May as the campaign chief of staff.
