Trump’s former campaign manager says he lost the election for failing to show empathy during COVID
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Brad Parscale, President Trump’s former campaign manager who was fired from the campaign in July, appeared on The Story With Martha MacCallum Tuesday night for his first post-election interview, where he said that Trump is to blame for his loss in the election. Parscale said that before he was fired, he advised the president to publicly show empathy toward issues surrounding COVID-19 rather than opening the economy so quickly. But Parscale said Trump chose a different path, and that path lost him the suburbs. Parscale also believes that, despite President-Elect Joe Biden’s massive victory by over six million votes, Trump would have won by a landslide had he handled the pandemic differently.
“We had a difference on this. I thought we should have public empathy. I think people were scared,” Parscale said, adding, “And I think if he would have been publicly empathetic, he would have won by a landslide. I think he could have leaned into it instead of run away from it.”
Video Transcript
BRAD PARSCALE: 1%, 2% people we lost of suburban families, right, the men and women in the suburbs-- Philly suburbs, Atlanta suburbs. I think that goes to one thing, and I think it was the decision on COVID to go for opening the economy versus public empathy.
- Brad Parscale, President Trump's former campaign manager who was fired from the campaign in July and was arrested in September in a video that quickly went viral, appeared on this story with Martha MacCallum Tuesday night for his first post-election interview. And he said that Trump's attitude toward COVID-19 is what lost him the election.
BRAD PARSCALE: A young family with a young child who were scared to take them back to school wanted to see an empathetic president and an empathetic Republican Party. And I think that-- and I said this multiple times, and he chose a different path.
- President-elect Joe Biden scored a massive victory over Trump with over six million more votes, but Parscale believes that had Trump handled the pandemic differently he would have easily won reelection.
BRAD PARSCALE: People were scared. And I think-- I think if he would have been publicly empathetic he would've won by a landslide then. I think he could have leaned into it instead of run away from it.
