Parscale Demoted As Trump’s Dismal Poll Numbers Continue To Sink

President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that his campaign manager, Brad Parscale, would be replaced by deputy campaign manager Bill Stepien.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1320769
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Trump claimed a second win “should be a lot easier” because “our poll numbers are rising fast.”

Keep telling yourself and your maggoted MAGAs more lies…

So rhetorically speaking…why did you demote Parscale?
Did he slow the Trumpian Death Star?
Or is he now a useless tool that you can discard per your usual SOP?

It’s futile to ask you to STOP story-telling-a-lie
But
Take a listen to other people tell truthful stories about you for a change:

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Brad, as part of the job, got an expensive condo, a yacht, several expensive cars and it’s rumored he didn’t even vote in 2016. The grifter (tRump) got grifted! Well done Brad. Laughing all the way to the bank Brad be like:

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Obviously, Brad’s moonlighting on “Homestead Rescue” got in the way of his campaign duties.

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Baghdad Brad…

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Don’t worry, there will be a SuperPAC that will snatch him up. Then they can claim to have “uncoordinated” campaign ads.

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Just find something new, Brad!

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Pascale was on very thin ice. The big red flag was the hiring of Stepien as a “co manager” sometime back.

And, to his credit, Parscale saw that flag and responded with the desperation move in Tusla, lying and stupidly pushing unbelievable numbers, which of course, fell flat on its face.

He was done that night. They just didn’t want to announce it immediately, because that would have been confirmation that Tulsa was an unmitigated disaster.

This move also pushes Jared into the background. Parscale was Jared’s guy, and Stepien…being a Christie staffer…is decidedly not. They are keeping him on as Digital because that apparently is still Jared’s “thing”. But without Russia and Cambridge Analytica doing the actual work, Jared’s “thing” isn’t all that great.

And for all the people who still claim Parscale is some sort of genius…he isn’t and never was. He was an amateur political web designer working out of a basement that served as a useful cover for what Cambridge Analytica was really doing for Jared. All of this “strategy” session are pure smoke being blown up people’s asses. Anyone with some decent level of campaign experience saw that.

@redpill I hear the resell value on yachts is pretty crappy. Expensive cars, too. But hey, when you move out of the basement into the upper echelons of GOP wealth basically overnight, that need to overcompensate can get pretty overwhelming.

ETA: I should also add. This is another indication of even more dysfunction around the corner. No campaign manager worth their salt takes a demotion like this…its not good for the campaign for one thing. But in typical Trump fashion, it sets up warring factions within the campaign almost immediately. So you’ll have people who were loyal to Parscale vs. people who are loyal to Stepien…with Jared and Ivanka playing their usual roles in the background as anonymous leakers about how badly one or the other (mostly Stepien in this case) are doing.

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So much for the “Parscale insurance” of paying Eric’s wife and Don Jr.'s mistress a full consulting salary from the campaign’s off-the-books accounts.

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It’s all Brad’s fault! And Obama’s! Probably had something to do with Hillary’s emails!

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This will be a major blow to the Monopoly man suit business.

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The Mercers, and particularly Robert, the father of high-speed algorithmic trading, lost faith in Brad a while back. And they have got the induced or cynical crash they wanted almost with no thanks to Trump, who only has acted through omission to make things worse. Of course, Mercer only came to the rescue of the floundering Trump campaign in August 2016. Aside from dumping Trump over the next few weeks and finding a replacement, it looks like capital got the desired recession and volatility that speculators love. It is hard to imagine more accommodative monetary conditions.

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Trump delivers a nonsense message as thin as wet toilet paper.

Trump claimed a second win “should be a lot easier” because “our poll numbers are rising fast.”

Would he actually have everyone believe that Parscale is removed because they are “rising fast” in the polls? Of course, I just answered my own question.

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This will fix it. tRump needn’t change a thing!

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Why not Kellyanne? Didn’t she save the day last time or is hubby a problem?

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Aw, that’s a darn shame. Maybe he can hook up with Kanye?

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Speaking of fixing things
Binden’s list of shit to fix just keeps getting longer and longer He’ll need 8 years just to undo the damage this criminal enterprise has done. I hope to Dog we get a Blue Senate and Blue house so we can listen to the squeals of outrage as we “Cram the legislation down their throats”

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Rearranging deck chairs…yeah, that works.

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Kellyanne was not an actual campaign manager. She was a spox for the campaign, or at best, a communications director.

She has a cushy WH job now, and will ride out this storm staying there.

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/kanye-west-drops-out-of-2020-presidential-race/

Timing is key in SOO many things.

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