By
Michael Scherer and
Josh Dawsey
July 12, 2020
.... “Brad is absolutely the right man for the job,” said House Minority Leader
Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). “His work ethic and command of what it takes to run a successful campaign in 2020 is second to none.” ...
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....The official said the most important people in Trump’s orbit still trust Parscale. “In this town, you have a lot of people who are the political consultants who are always trying to position things,” the official said.
“That is not Brad. We know he has the same intention as the family.”
That confidence, however, has not prevented internal complaints about Parscale’s frequent absence from campaign headquarters. Parscale lives in Florida, while the campaign is based in Northern Virginia. Staffers say that when they talk to him, he is often by his pool in Fort Lauderdale.
“You can’t have a campaign manager who isn’t even around the campaign,” said a senior White House official, who also spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal dynamics....
..... The campaign, meanwhile,
has placed $566,567 in campaign ads through Parscale’s personal Facebook fan page. .....
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The ads, which a senior campaign official said were not bought at the campaign manager’s urging, place Parscale’s name and image in voters’ Facebook feeds, and they link back to his fan page. That page, in turn, included a link to Parscale’s consulting company until recently, and it continues to offer dozens of photographs of Parscale in action — dining with the Trumps, in a Super Bowl skybox, flying on Air Force One.
Murtaugh said the campaign also advertised through Pence’s Facebook page. After the Parscale Facebook effort was revealed by Mother Jones, the campaign began advertising through the page of Katrina Pierson, another senior campaign adviser. A campaign official said the practice would soon be expanded to the pages of other Trump surrogates.
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