离选举日不到四个月了，总统唐纳德·特朗普周三晚上，奥巴马宣布对他的连任团队进行重大改组，在民调数字不断下降的情况下，将长期竞选经理布拉德·帕斯凯尔(Brad Parscale)降级，并在持续的流感大流行中，采取一系列拙劣的措施重启他的竞选。
奥巴马在脸书上写道:“我很高兴地宣布，比尔·斯捷潘被提升为特朗普竞选经理。”在推特中断的情况下由于几个高知名度的帐户被黑客攻击。
总统说，曾在2016年竞选中担任数字总监的帕斯凯尔将继续领导数字和数据战略。有消息称，帕斯凯尔对总统忠心耿耿，但在政治上凌驾于总统之上。
周二在白宫的一次私人会议上，总统将竞选经理的职位让给了斯捷潘。斯捷潘在五月底被提升为竞选副经理。
美国广播公司新闻报道的高级别竞选消息来源感到震惊，并没有看到今晚的变化。帕斯凯尔是由贾里德·库什纳消息人士称。这发生在库什纳和他的高级竞选助手整个星期都在为竞选前进的道路而开会的时候。
这一消息是在许多接近总统的人认为的一个月后发布的塔尔萨的灾难性错误——承诺特朗普将在博克中心内外召集数千名拥挤的支持者举行集会，并只提供三分之一的完整舞台，引发数天的全国媒体报道。就在上周，总统连任团队再次未能重启竞选，在最后一刻取消了在新罕布什尔州朴茨茅斯的集会。公开引用天气问题消息人士告诉美国广播公司，虽然私下里竞选官员担心塔尔萨的重演。
2014年6月9日，比尔·斯捷潘离开新泽西州议会。白宫政治主任比尔·斯捷潘和公共联络办公室主任贾斯汀·克拉克将离开政府，前往唐纳德·特朗普总统竞选连任。
一些与特朗普关系密切的人表示，鉴于总统拒绝改变路线，竞选活动的变动对当前的竞选状态不会有什么影响。
特朗普的一名助手告诉美国广播公司新闻:“总统仍将践踏正在发出的信息，并花费数百万美元，把布拉德赶出去并不能改变这一点。”
除了集会之外，公众投票继续显示总统处于水深火热之中，在全国和许多摇摆州落后民主党候选人乔·拜登两位数。
在周三公布的昆尼皮亚克民调中，乔·拜登在登记选民中比特朗普领先15个百分点。民意调查还显示，总统的支持率下降到令人沮丧的水平，只有36%的登记选民说他们赞成他作为总统所做的工作，而60%的人说他们不赞成。共和党中，13%的人不赞成;在独立选民中，63%的人不赞成。
在塔尔萨集会后的几天里，帕斯凯尔面临着对这一举动的批评，甚至是来自他自己的竞选团队内部的批评，正如2016年竞选经理科里·列万多维斯基(Corey Lewandowski)在一次电台采访中称之为“根本性的错误”，他也为2020年的竞选提供了建议。
“正如你所知，我就是这样生活的，我是在候选人特朗普竞选时这样做的。在我的领导下，我们赢得了38场初选和党团会议，这显然都归功于唐纳德·特朗普，但我们从未做过这样的事情。”
在这张摄于2018年10月2日的档案照片中，特朗普2020竞选团队经理布拉德·帕斯凯尔(Brad Parscale)出现在唐纳德·特朗普总统在密西西比州南部兰德斯中心举行的集会开始之前。
Parsacle在2018年2月被任命为竞选经理，在中期选举之前选举自那以后，他一直领导着这个团队，总统的女婿和高级顾问库什纳在竞选中保持着重要的权力，包括在大多数政治行动中拥有最终决定权。
2016年竞选结束后，在被任命为竞选经理之前，帕斯凯尔作为高级顾问加入了美国第一党(America First)，这是一个得到总统支持的超级政治行动委员会，致力于支持他在白宫之外的议程。
这位德克萨斯州的数字大师也代表共和党全国委员会做了一些工作。
去年八月，竞选发言人蒂姆·墨菲告诉美国广播公司:“布拉德对他过去的商业成功毫不掩饰。”“自2016年以来，他已经卖掉了三家初创公司:帕斯凯尔传媒公司、贾尔斯-帕斯凯尔公司和一家医疗器械公司。他卖掉了所有这些，把全部时间都花在了总统的连任上。”
拜登竞选团队在竞选发言人安德鲁·贝茨(Andrew Bates)的一份新声明中回应了特朗普竞选团队领导层的变动，称竞选团队的领导力不是问题所在。
贝茨说:“由于唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)的失败领导，近14万美国人失去了生命，数百万人失去了工作。”“特朗普竞选团队的音乐椅游戏无法解决这个问题。为此，我们需要一位新总统。”
Trump demotes campaign manager Brad Parscale in major shake-up amid sagging polling numbers
Less than four months from Election Day, PresidentDonald Trumpannounced a major shake-up to his reelection team on Wednesday night, demoting longtime campaign manager Brad Parscale amid sinking polling numbers and a string of botched efforts to reboot his campaign amid the ongoing pandemic.
"I am pleased to announce that Bill Stepien has been promoted to the role of Trump Campaign Manager," the president wrote on Facebook,amid a Twitter outagedue to several high-profile accounts being hacked.
Parscale, who served on the 2016 campaign as the digital director, and who sources say has been breathlessly loyal to the president but politically over his head, will stay on to lead digital and data strategies, the president said.
The president offered the campaign manager role to Stepien during a private meeting Tuesday at the White House. Stepien was elevated to deputy campaign manager in late May.
Senior level campaign sources reached by ABC News were shocked and did not see the change coming tonight. Parscale was informed of the change byJared Kushner, sources said. This comes as Kushner and top campaign aides have been meeting all week on the campaign's path forward.
The news comes nearly a month after what many close to the president viewed asa catastrophic error in Tulsa-- promising Trump a rally with thousands of packed supporters both inside and outside the BOK Center and only delivering a one-third full arena sparking days of national media coverage. And just last week, the president's reelection team again failed to reboot its campaign, canceling a rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, at the last minute,citing weather concerns publiclywhile privately campaign officials were fearful of a repeat of Tulsa, sources told ABC News.
Bill Stepien leaves the New Jersey State House, June 9, 2014. White House political director Bill Stepien and Justin Clark, the director of the office of public liaison, are leaving the administration to work on President Donald Trump's re-election campaign.
Some close to Trump said the campaign shake-up will have little impact on the current state of the race given the president's refusal to change course.
"The president is still going to trample on the messaging being put out and spent millions on, moving Brad out doesn't change that," a Trump aide told ABC News.
Beyond the rally, public polling continues to show the president in dire straits, trailing presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden by double digits nationally and in many swing states.
In a Quinnipiac poll released Wednesday, Joe Biden had a 15-point advantage over Trump among registered voters. The poll also showed the president's approval rating sinking to dismal levels, with just 36% of registered voters saying they approve of the job he's doing as president while 60% say they disapprove. Among Republicans, 13% disapprove; among independents, 63% disapprove.
In the days following the Tulsa rally, Parscale face criticism over the move, even from within his own campaign, as 2016 campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, who also advises the 2020 campaign, called it a "fundamental mistake" in a radio interview.
"I lived this, as you know, I did this when candidate Trump was running. We won 38 primaries and caucuses under my stewardship, obviously all due to Donald Trump, but we never did something like this," Lewandowski said.
In this file photo taken on Oct. 2, 2018, Trump 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale is seen before the start of a rally by President Donald Trump at Landers Center in Southaven, Miss.
Parsacle was named campaign manager in February 2018, ahead of the midtermelectionsand has led the team since, with the president's son-in-law and senior adviser, Kushner, retaining significant power over the campaign, including having the final say in most political moves.
After the 2016 campaign ended and before being named campaign manager, Parscale joined America First, the super PAC endorsed by the president that works to support his agenda outside the White House, as a senior adviser.
The Texas-based digital guru has also done work on behalf of the Republican National Committee.
"Brad makes no secret of his past business success," campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh told ABC News last August. "Since 2016 he has sold three start-up companies: Parscale Media, Giles-Parscale and a medical device company. He sold all these to focus full time on the president's reelection."
The Biden campaign responded to the change in leadership in the Trump campaign in a new statement from campaign spokesperson Andrew Bates, arguing that the campaign leadership wasn’t the problem.
"Almost 140,000 Americans have lost their lives and millions more have lost their jobs because of Donald Trump’s failed leadership," Bates said. "The Trump campaign’s game of musical chairs won’t fix this. We need a new president for that."
