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| Trump names Brad Parscale as 2020 election campaign chief | |
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| US President Donald Trump has named one of his political strategists as campaign manager for his 2020 re-election campaign. | |
| The Trump Organization hired Brad Parscale in 2011 as a digital media guru. | |
| He was asked in 2015 to create a website for Mr Trump's exploratory White House bid and a year later became the campaign's digital director. | |
| The president's son, Eric Trump, confirmed the appointment. | |
| He said in a press release on Tuesday: "Brad is an amazing talent and was pivotal to our success in 2016. | |
| "He has our family's complete trust and is the perfect person to be at the helm of the campaign." | |
| The Republican president filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission shortly after his inauguration last year to form a committee for a re-election bid. | |
| Mr Trump's campaign fundraising has been ongoing, raising $22m by the end of 2017. | |
| It is little surprise that an incumbent US president would run for a second term, as White House press secretary Sarah Sanders made clear last year. | |
| "Of course he's running for re-election," she said in June 2017 during a press briefing. | |
| Mr Parscale was interviewed behind closed doors last year by the House Intelligence Committee inquiry into alleged Russian meddling in the US election. | |
| He said he had told lawmakers he had no knowledge of the alleged Kremlin plot to influence the campaign in favour of Mr Trump. | |
| He told a CBS 60 Minutes programme last year that Mr Trump had rebuked him during the election, because the candidate was sceptical about ad spending. | |
| Mr Parscale said Mr Trump shouted at him: "I don't believe in this mumbo-jumbo digital stuff. | |
| "I was crushed actually. It was the first time he had ever, just, I hadn't even seen him yell at anyone, let alone me." | |
| The digital guru's firm billed the Trump campaign $94m (£68m) for its work on the election, reports CNBC. | |
| Mr Parscale told 60 Minutes he shifted focus away from the swing state of Virginia after deciding that Mr Trump could carve a path to victory in the US Midwest. | |
| "I took every nickel and dime I could out of anywhere else," he said. | |
| "And I moved it to Michigan and Wisconsin. And I started buying advertising, digital, TV." |