Political advisor and former campaign manager to ex-US President Donald Trump, Brad Parscale made headlines on October 13, 2022, when Rep. Zoe Lofgren revealed he was interviewed by the House Select Committee in connection with the January 6 investigations.

“We also interviewed Brad Parscale, President Trump’s former campaign manager. He told us he understood that President Trump planned as early as July that he would say he won the election, even if he lost,” Lofgren revealed.

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Who is Brad Parscale?

Brad Parscale is a political advisor and digital consultant, who worked as former US President Donald Trump’s campaign manager ahead in the 2020 US presidential election. He was born on January 3, 1976, in Topeka, Kansas, the United States to Dwight and Rita.

His father, Dwight Parscale, worked as an assistant attorney general and business owner in Kansas, whereas his mother, Rita, was a businesswoman as well. Dwight later became the CEO of NewTek, a computer products company in 1990. 

Brad completed his high school education at the Shawnee Heights High School in Tecumseh, Kansas and graduated in 1994. He played basketball in high school and went on to enrol at two different junior colleges following graduation.

He graduated college from Trinity University in San Antonio in 1999, where he pursued a bachelor’s degree in finance, international business and economics.

Parscale began his career at his father’s company Electric Image, where he worked as a sales manager. However, the company later filed for bankruptcy, following which he returned to San Antonio and became a website developer.

He went on to begin another company named Giles-Parscale, in partnership with website developer Jill Giles in July 2011. The company worked for Trump International Realty in April 2012 for building a website, which resulted in more future collaborations between them. 

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The relationship between the two companies grew and Parscale became the digital director of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and campaign manager in 2020.

Brad became father to a baby daughter in July 1999 and married his child’s mother, a San Antonio tanning salon employee, in March 2003. However, the couple divorced in October 2007. He has been married to Candice Blount since 2012.