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(CNN) - Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are "angry" with campaign manager Brad Parscale for their predictions of a much larger crowd than the one presented at the Tulsa rally on Saturday night, according to a campaign source. from Trump.
"Jared and Ivanka are angry at Brad for their promise about the size of the crowd," said the source.
A Kushner spokesman said later Sunday that it is "false" that they are upset with Parscale. And Parscale declined to comment for this story.
President Donald Trump and his allies had raised the expectations of a massive crowd in the days leading up to the protest, campaign officials told CNN that more than 1 million people had registered to attend, and a local official stated they expected 100,000 to show up nearby the arena. Parscale had promoted the numbers himself on Twitter last Monday.
READ: Some 6,200 people attended the Trump event, according to Tulsa firefighters
Those crowds did not appear Saturday, prompting the campaign to abruptly abandon plans for the president to speak in an area outside the arena. Less than 6,200 people attended, the Tulsa Fire Department said Sunday. And six campaign employees in Tulsa tested positive for coronavirus, a revelation that reportedly caused the Trump eruption when media reports focused on that and not the event.
A separate source for the campaign said Trump also "has every right to be angry" over the participation in Tulsa.
“They gave adversaries and the media a gift. It was overconfidence, ”said the Parscale source and other campaign employees close to the event's planning.
Campaign officials should rethink the idea of holding events inside the arenas and start looking at more outdoor venues like airplane hangars, the source continued.
In the hours after the rally, Parscale turned to Twitter to blame poor participation on a myriad of factors, including the media, protests, and blocked security doors. It also rejected the suggestion that a coordinated effort to encourage people to register online and not show up in the days leading up to the rally could have played a role in participation.
Another campaign advisor summed up the evening saying "it went wrong."
Parscale was already under pressure within the Trump campaign, the adviser said, as the president has occasionally expressed disappointment at his performance in recent weeks.
Parscale faces a "decline in confidence" from Trump's inner circle, the adviser added.
"Kellyanne (Conway), (Paul) Manafort and Corey (Lewandowski) never had campaign event size issues," said the adviser on former Trump campaign managers.
CNN's Jamie Ehrlich contributed to this report.
