‘When Trump asked me how I could win again. I would be dropped off twice. They are about to give him super powers, ”Parscale wrote. “They are about to make him a martyr.”
After losing in November, Trump told his allies that he was active in 2024, but that was before the Capitol uprising he spurred led to his unprecedented second impeachment and clouded his political future.
Support among Republicans and GOP-leaning independents for a Trump 2024 GOP primary bid baptized according to POLITICO / Morning Consult polls from 53 percent in November to 40 percent in mid-January.
Parscale was Trump’s campaign manager from 2020 until July, when he was abruptly removed from office. He remained in a limited role in the campaign until September, when he left completely after an incident at his Florida home in which Parscale was involuntarily detained by police.
In the Fox News interview, he said he is still loyal to Trump. However, Parscale disagreed with Trump’s pandemic strategy, arguing that the then president should have been more empathetic in his response.
“A young family with a young child who is afraid of bringing them back to school wanted to see an empathetic president. And an empathetic Republican Party,” Parscale said. “And I said this several times and he took a different path. I don’t think he was wrong, I love him, but we had a difference in this. I felt we should have public empathy.”
Trump will face a second impeachment trial by the Senate next week on charges of instigating the January 6 uprising at the Capitol. The House charged Trump in December 2019 on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, but he was acquitted in the Senate. It is widely expected that Trump will be acquitted again this time.