President-elect Donald Trump’s new staff is beginning to take form.
Trump has employed top aide, Susie Wiles, 67, an skilled Republican strategist and operative whose political profession dates again to the Seventies, for the chief of workers place.
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“Susie Wiles simply helped me obtain one of many best political victories in American historical past, and was an integral a part of each my 2016 and 2020 profitable campaigns,” Trump stated in an announcement, per the AP.
“It’s a well-deserved honor to have Susie because the first-ever feminine Chief of Employees in United States historical past. I’ve little question that she is going to make our nation proud,” he added.
Who’s Susie Wiles?
Wiles is the daughter of sports activities broadcasting icon Pat Summerall. She has labored on Republican campaigns for decades, together with Ronald Reagan’s successful 1980 presidential marketing campaign and the Bush-Quayle election in 1988. Wiles helped get now-Senator Rick Scott elected Governor of the Sunshine State in 2010 and labored with Mitt Romney’s advisory council for his 2012 presidential run.
Trump reportedly met Wiles through the 2015 Republican presidential major, per the BBC, and he or she turned the co-chair of his Florida marketing campaign.
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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush wrote on X that Wiles is a “nice alternative” for the place.