It’s not the Kamala Harris campaign: it’s Obama’s 4th term.
At least, that’s what it’s shaping up to look like.
Several former Obama campaign staffers have joined Team Kamala, pushing out Biden’s people.
This includes Obama’s former campaign manager David Plouffe.
Take a look at what’s happening:
Politico reported:
Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign is bringing on a new echelon of senior advisers, most prominently David Plouffe, the former top political adviser to Barack Obama.
The personnel move follows weeks of speculation — and lobbying from some Harris allies — to inject a fresh set of eyes into the campaign apparatus she inherited from President Joe Biden after he dropped his reelection bid last month.
Plouffe was Obama’s 2008 campaign manager and in 2012 served a similar role in Obama’s reelection from his perch as a White House senior adviser.
In his new role, Plouffe will be halting his weekly podcast, The Campaign Managers, co-hosted with former Trump campaign leader Kellyanne Conway. He will be permitted to keep existing private sector clients but he will end his advisory relationship with TikTok.
Plouffe is the most high-profile addition in a slate of new operatives announced by the Harris campaign today as senior advisers, including policy adviser Brian Nelson, message guru Stephanie Cutter, organizing strategist Mitch Stewart, pollster Terrance Woodbury and communications adviser Jen Palmieri, who will work for second gentleman Doug Emhoff. Most had previous roles in Obama’s campaigns or administration.
The campaign also confirmed POLITICO’s previous reporting that it expects GMMB, the media firm headed by former Obama admaker Jim Margolis, to be added to Harris’s paid media team.
Apparently, Plouffe was the man behind Kamala Harris’ cowardly response to Trump’s September 4th debate challenge.
I guess we shouldn’t be surprised that Word-Salad Kamala didn’t craft that message herself…
From Newsmax:
Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign has some new faces, but most of them are from the old guard who worked with former President Barack Obama’s two campaigns and with him inside his White House.
The moves come as Harris, still the presumptive Democratic nominee, edges closer to officially becoming the party’s pick for the presidency, and her operation strategy will differ widely from that of President Joe Biden, reported Politico Playbook.
But many of the team members that are being pushed aside, after being criticized by Obama associates over how they managed the Biden campaign, are seeing Obama’s best aides from his 2008 and 2012 campaigns being brought in to manage Harris.
So far, one of the top additions to Harris’s campaign is David Plouffe, the electoral strategist who led Obama to a win in the 2008 primary against Hillary Clinton, as well as his two victories in the general elections.
Plouffe has the title of “senior advisor for path to 270 & strategy,” which means he will be working to help Harris win the 270 electoral college votes she would need to win the race.
Plouffe is to report to Jen O’Malley Dillon, a former deputy White House chief of staff under Biden who moved over to his campaign in January.
The two go way back, as Plouffe hired Dillon, an aide with the John Edwards campaign, in 2008 to work as the director for Obama’s battleground states campaign.
“He’s going to be like a consigliere to Jen and the campaign,” said David Axelrod, the chief strategist for both of Obama’s campaigns, working with Plouffe, a longtime business partner.
Plouffe is already working, issuing the campaign’s response to Trump’s announcement that he’s agreed to a Sept. 4 Fox News debate, complete “with a full arena audience.”
“Donald Trump is cowardly backing out of the debate he agreed to, one just like the debate he did in June,” Plouffe posted on X Saturday. “Now, he seems only comfortable in a cocoon, asking his happy place Fox to host a Trump rally and call it a debate. Maybe he can only handle debating someone his own age.”
Mitch Stewart, who ran the Iowa caucuses for Obama, had Dillon’s former title, battleground states director in 2012. He is moving to the Harris campaign to work as “senior advisor for battleground states” under Dillon.
Stephanie Cutter, another Harris addition, worked for both Barack and Michelle Obama, in the campaigns and in the White House, and now will become Harris’ “senior advisor for message and strategy.”
What do you think?
Is Obama once again playing puppet-master?
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