Trump Announces 2020 Re-Election Bid, Names Campaign Manager 3 Years In Advance

Monica Sanchez | February 27, 2018
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President Trump has announced that he’s running for re-election in 2020.

His former digital advisor during the 2016 presidential election Brad Parscale has been named the head of his 2020 campaign, news first reported by The Drudge Report and later confirmed in a campaign press release on Tuesday.

The Trump campaign on the President’s campaign website issued a statement announcing the appointment of Parscale as campaign manager.

In the statement, Eric Trump calls Parscale “an amazing talent” who was “pivotal to our success in 2016.”

Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner similarly praises Parscale as “essential in bringing a disciplined technology and data-driven approach to how the 2016 campaign was run.”

“Parscale, who had previously worked for the Trump Organization, worked as Trump’s top digital operations guru for the 2016 campaign and was credited with possibly tipping the election,” reports Fox News. “Born in Topeka, Kansas, Parscale says he spent 15 years building his company he started with just $500 before moving to the Trump Organization in 2010. But as he moved up the ranks to eventually take control of the Trump campaign’s digital arm, he wielded significant influence and pushed the campaign to invest in social media advertising, particularly Facebook.”

“As campaign manager, Parscale will be in the spotlight significantly more than in his previous role, where he was largely unknown until after Trump's upset victory,” writes Fox News. “Kellyanne Conway, Trump's 2016 campaign manager, was regularly on television pushing the campaign’s agenda and drawing a significant amount of media scrutiny.”

After the 2016 election, Parscale continued his work in digital strategies for the campaign and the Republican National Committee.

The Trump campaign in its announcement also gave a preview of what’s to come, including its focus on infrastructure for the 2020 race and its plans to be highly engaged in the 2018 midterm elections.  

Sources say that a formal, more grandiose announcement regarding Trump’s 2020 re-election bid is in the works.

(Cover Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

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