“We have a better team, better voter information, a better ground game, better fundraising, and most importantly, a better candidate with a better record,” Stepien wrote. In recent weeks, Trump campaign and Republican National Committee officials have huddled with Senate and House aides, seeking to convince them of the Trump campaign’s strength and “trying to keep the party together,” in the words of one campaign official. And despite being in the president’s orbit since the 2016 campaign, Stepien also does not have the deep ties to Trump’s family that Parscale has. Stepien has taken deep interest in state and county data and views his role as a field operations manager, a senior campaign official said. Some Republicans were cautiously optimistic that the campaign shake-up at least signals an acknowledgment by the president that he has just four months to save his reelection hopes.

Source: Washington Post July 16, 2020 23:29 UTC