Is Brad Parscale pushing Trump to run for 2024? Ex-POTUS meets former campaign chief at Mar-a-Lago: Report
Former President Donald Trump met with ex-campaign manager Brad Parscale on Tuesday at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, according to the latest reports. The duo met just days after the Senate voted to acquit Trump over his alleged role in the US Capitol riots, a source familiar with the matter told Fox News. However, the details of the discussion of their meeting are unclear, the source added.
A week ago, on February 7, 2021, reports started doing the rounds that Parscale was urging Trump to run for President once again, exploiting the fact that he was impeached twice and to portray himself as a martyr.
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"If Trump asked me how to win again. I would run on being impeached twice. They are about to give him super powers. They just aren’t smart enough to see it. It’s why we laughed at Mike Tyson in the Hangover. They just don’t get it yet. They are about to make him a martyr," he tweeted. In a message thread addressed to the former president's now-defunct Twitter account, he wrote, "Statement to Trump: “If they only impeached you twice, you need to run again. Because to change the system you have to kick it in the a#$. I would love to be the only President to be impeached three times. Because history remembers those that didn’t conform. I’m in, are you?”.
Statement to Trump:
— Brad Parscale (@parscale) February 6, 2021
“If they only impeached you twice, you need to run again. Because to change the system you have to kick it in the a#$. I would love to be the only President to be impeached three times. Because history remembers those that didn’t conform.
I’m in, are you?”
With this, 44-year-old Parscale, who once rose to prominence in Trump’s inner circle with his effective digital outreach campaign during the 2016 presidential election, had made his intentions clear. Their success in the previous campaign even led Parscale to take the role of Trump’s campaign manager in 2020.
After working alongside for years, Parscale and Trump's relationship became to falter ahead of the 2020 election. This was reportedly happening at a time when Trump was suffering from lukewarm polling numbers and when a series of campaign events failed to draw large crowds. As a consequence of this, in last July, Parscale was removed as Trump’s campaign manager and reassigned to his old role as head of digital outreach.
He would ultimately go on to leave the campaign altogether after an altercation at his home in Fort Lauderdale last September. Parscale's wife Candice Blount reported that he had barricaded himself inside their home and was threatening to harm himself. Parscale was eventually detained and involuntarily hospitalized.
He later said that the incident was a result of personal and professional stress. "I got to a bad place," Parscale reportedly said in December last year. "My wife was worried about me. And she helped. And she was there every day by my side, and I love her for it."
While Trump is yet to announce any plans for formal events -- he has remained silent for the most part since leaving the White House and moving to Mar-a-Lago -- he said in a statement, "Where necessary and appropriate, I will back primary rivals who espouse Making America Great Again and our policy of America First. We want brilliant, strong, thoughtful, and compassionate leadership".