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President Trump has tapped Brad Parscale -- the towering, bearded political consultant described as a “genius” by The Washington Post -- as the man to lead his 2020 re-election bid as campaign manager.

Parscale, who had previously worked for the Trump Organization, worked as Trump’s top digital operations guru for the 2016 campaign and was credited with possibly tipping the election.

Born in Topeka, Kansas, Parscale says he spent 15 years building his company he started with just $500 before moving to the Trump Organization in 2010. But as he moved up the ranks to eventually take control of the Trump campaign’s digital arm, he wielded significant influence and pushed the campaign to invest in social media advertising, particularly Facebook.

"You want a great product, you want things that resonate with people and make them dance,” he said at a conference in November.

The Washington Post called him the “genius who won Trump’s campaign."

“The campaign poured money into Facebook, sending thousands of versions of tweaked ads to maximize response,” a profile from the Post said. “Then it won the presidency by a margin narrow enough that Parscale (and Facebook) can justifiably take credit.”

Parscale described his methods in an interview with Fox News and talked about how data led the campaign to push in Pennsylvania and Michigan.

"We were making thousands of live calls, web tracking, web different surveys and it was building and it's building what's called models and universes," he said. "What we can start to see is, we're in play in Pennsylvania and play in Michigan. Let's buy in these areas."

As campaign manager, Parscale will be in the spotlight significantly more than in his previous role. Kellyanne Conway, Trump's 2016 campaign manager, was regularly on television pushing the campaign’s agenda and drawing a significant amount of media scrutiny.

An imposing figure himself (Parscale is taller than the 6’2” president), any emphasis on Facebook is likely to draw additional scrutiny in 2020 as it has since been revealed that Russian-linked individuals used Facebook as part of their strategy to sow discord in U.S. politics in 2016.

But like Conway, he has shown unwavering loyalty to the president.

"Mr. Trump has given me every opportunity in the world, and I would do anything I could to help him win," Parscale told the Texas Tribune. "There is no rock I wouldn’t turn over and no time I wouldn’t put in to help him win."

In addition to his appointment, members of Trump’s White House team offered glowing praise for Parscale’s abilities.

“Brad was essential in bringing a disciplined technology and data-driven approach to how the 2016 campaign was run. His leadership and expertise will help build a best-in-class campaign,” Kushner said in a statement.

Trump filed the paperwork to organize his re-election committee on the same day as his inauguration, held his first campaign rally on Feb. 18, 2017, in Florida, and has mused publicly about would-be Democratic challengers.

That field already is staggeringly broad with ranging from California Sen. Kamala Harris to New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker to 2016 Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders are thought to be considering a run.

Some conservatives, though, think Trump would stand the best chance against Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. A straw poll taken at the Conservative Political Action Conference showed participants picked Warren as the Democrat most likely to lose to Trump should she run.

Trump names Brad Parscale as campaign manager for 2020 re-election bid | Fox News