President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign manager took a swipe at his 2020 replacements on Monday, saying they overpromised and underdelivered with regard to Saturday’s Tulsa political rally which drew a less than anticipated capacity of the BOK Center.
“I think a fundamental mistake was made,” Corey Lewandowski said on the “New Hampshire Today” radio show. “Overpromising and underdelivering is the biggest mistake you can make in politics.”
The remark appeared to criticize 2020 Trump re-election campaign manager Brad Parscale, who a week ago tweeted that more than 1 million requests had been submitted for Saturday’s rally, the first by Trump in three months.
Tulsa fire officials estimated the crowd to be about 6,200 for the 19,000-seat arena, a figure which the Trump campaign disputed.
“I lived this as you know,” Lewandowski told WKLX in Concord, New Hampshire. “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.”
Users of the TikTok video sharing app/social media platform and fans of Korean pop music took partial credit for inflating attendance expectations, saying they registered for entrance to the event but never intended on going.
“And what that means is we have to go back and re-evaluate the system in which people were getting those tickets and determining if they were real, if they were robots, and putting additional protocols in place so this doesn’t happen again,” Lewandowski said.
Despite criticizing the Trump campaign for the deflated rally crowd, after the interview Lewandowski took to Twitter to praise Parscale, saying he was “exceptionally qualified” to run Trump’s re-election bid.
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