Replacing your campaign manager is a bit like when the president of a football club changes coach: the goal is to create an electric shock. Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he was replacing Brad Parscale with Bill Stepien, while he is 9 points behind Joe Biden less than 4 months before the presidential election on November 3.
"I am delighted to announce that Bill Stepien has been promoted to the position of Trump campaign manager," the president wrote on his Facebook and Twitter accounts. Brad Parscale is demoted to his former position as director of the digital campaign.
Tusla meeting fiasco
This reorganization comes as Donald Trump, weakened by the coronavirus crisis, is struggling in the polls against Joe Biden. According to the average of RealClearPolitics polls, Donald Trump is currently 9 points behind Biden. Two thirds of Americans disapprove of its handling of the Covid crisis, and its popularity rating has returned to its lows, at 38% satisfied, according to the Gallup barometer.
Brad Parscale probably pays the fiasco of the Tuls electoral meeting, at the end of June. While he had sworn to have had more than a million responses, about 7,000 people showed up in an empty two-thirds room. Several members of Donald Trump's campaign were infected, and the infections exploded in Tulsa two weeks later.
Bill Stepien is little known to the general public, but he is a follower of Donald Trump. This quadra managed Chris Christie's election campaigns as governor of New Jersey, then joined the Trump team in 2016. He then held several positions at the White House, and served as a consultant on his re-election campaign.
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