“I don’t know who thought it was a good idea to put 20,000 people in a room with masks optional.” — Steve Doocy
Lol. I’m pretty sure we know exactly who that was. And he was undoubtedly watching.
Meanwhile, Javanka is reportedly pissed:
Jared and Ivanka are pissed at Brad over promising on crowd size,” the source said.
President Donald Trump and his allies had ginned up expectations for a massive crowd in the days leading up to the rally, with campaign officials telling CNN that more than 1 million people had registered to attend and one local official stating they expected 100,000 to show up near the arena.
I think we all know that Parscale is marked for death. He was trying to give Dear Leader what he wanted and he failed. I don’t think that’s forgivable.
A separate campaign source said Trump also “has every right to be pissed” over the turnout in Tulsa.”They gave adversaries and media a gift. It was overconfidence,” the source said of Parscale and other campaign staffers close to the planning of the event.
Campaign officials should rethink the idea of holding rallies inside arenas and begin contemplating more open-air venues like aircraft hangars, the source continued.
Donors and friends of the President also have been fuming Sunday in the wake of Trump’s poorly-attended rally, a person involved with the reelection effort told CNN.
The person said blame from this camp has focused squarely on Parscale, of whom some had already been skeptical. But some donors and allies feel the rally debacle — in which the campaign made a decision to inflate expectations about enthusiasm for the rally rather than manage them at a reasonable level — threw into sharp relief the existing management problems on the campaign, the person said
.”What happened last night is representative of a much bigger problem,” the person noted.
As CNN has reported, some Republicans working with the campaign had grown concerned that the reelection team has not adapted quickly enough to the shifting political landscape ahead of November — with the global pandemic and national movement for racial justice continuing to tilt the race away from the one campaign aides were initially planning to run. Another campaign adviser summed up the evening by saying “it went poorly.”
Parscale was already under pressure inside the Trump campaign, the adviser said, as the President has occasionally expressed disappointment in his performance over the last several weeks.Parscale is facing a “decline of confidence,” from Trump’s inner circle, the adviser added.” Kellyanne (Conway), (Paul) Manafort and Corey (Lewandowski) never had rally size issues,” the adviser said of Trump’s former campaign managers.This story has been updated with additional developments.
Say what you will about Manafort, Conway and Lewandowski, they didn’t try to kill Trump supporters.
Parscale decision to do that was bold, pushed hard by the president himself. It turns out voters may not care for that. Go figure.