Anita Dunn, a top adviser to President Biden and architect of his 2020 campaign, will leave the White House next week to advise the largest super PAC supporting Vice President Harris.<\/p>\n
The decision, which has long been discussed as a possibility inside Biden\u2019s inner circle, marks the first major exit from Biden\u2019s core team since he decided to step aside from the presidential campaign and endorse Harris.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s tough and tested, and her experience and intellect have helped us deliver historic results for the American people,\u201d Biden said in a statement Tuesday about Dunn. \u201cI deeply value her counsel and friendship and I will continue to rely on her partnership and insights as we finish the job over the next six months.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dunn will be a senior adviser to the independent group Future Forward, which has committed at least $300 million to support Harris, and an adviser to its partner organization Future Forward USA Action. Dunn will work on super PAC efforts that can coordinate with the Harris campaign, meaning she will not be able to consult on independent ad placement or message strategy, say people familiar with the arrangement.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am grateful to President Biden and Vice President Harris for their leadership and giving me the opportunity to be part of what they have accomplished for the American people,\u201d Dunn said in a statement.<\/p>\n
She helped structure the ecosystem of outside groups for Biden during 2021 and 2022, and worked closely with the groups last year, when legal restrictions on coordination were less strict. She does not plan to join a consulting firm, and would work as an independent consultant. Future Forward President Chauncey McLean said in a statement that the group was \u201cthrilled\u201d to have her rejoining the effort.<\/p>\n
Dunn worked in the White House for Biden on two temporary assignments starting in January 2021, before divesting from her consulting firm SKDK in 2022 to work full time as a senior adviser to the president. She worked with the Center for American Progress on a project that developed the \u201cultra MAGA\u201d communications strategy that Democrats, including Biden, adopted before the 2022 midterms.<\/p>\n
Since then, she has overseen the White House communications operation, managed the policy rollouts and advised Biden\u2019s 2024 campaign as it set up operations and began planning for next month\u2019s convention in Chicago.<\/p>\n
She was previously a part of the inner circle that advised Biden when he considered and decided against a presidential campaign in 2015. She then took on a central role in the 2020 campaign, serving briefly as an interim campaign manager after Biden\u2019s fourth-place finish in the Iowa caucuses. Campaign aides credit her with the Nevada and South Carolina strategy that allowed Biden to win the nomination, despite embarrassing defeats earlier in the process.<\/p>\n
Previously she served as a top adviser to Barack Obama\u2019s 2008 and 2012 campaigns, including a brief stint as White House communications director during Obama\u2019s first term. She advised former senator Bill Bradley (D-N.J.) when he ran for president in 2000 against Vice President Al Gore. She first worked in the White House for President Jimmy Carter in 1978, where she got to answer phones in the chief of staff office after cuts to the full-time staff.<\/p>\n
Her husband, former White House counsel Bob Bauer, is Biden\u2019s personal attorney.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe President and the entire team turn to Anita for her always insightful counsel, decisiveness, and unparalleled experience every single day,\u201d White House chief of staff Jeff Zients said in a statement Tuesday. Harris\u2019s chief of staff, Lorraine Voles, praised Dunn as \u201ca valued colleague to me and so many others,\u201d while White House Deputy Chief of Staff Bruce Reed called her \u201ca clutch hitter.\u201d Minyon Moore, chair of the Democratic convention, described Dunn as \u201cthe person who can get things done and get you answers.\u201d<\/p>\n
News of her departure led to an outpouring of other tributes from those who have worked with her or been mentored by her over the past decade, including White House spokesman Andrew Bates, who called her \u201cunfailingly supportive.\u201d Dozens of Democratic operatives credit Dunn with jump-starting and guiding their careers.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s been a great mentor to me and scores of communicators across the administration,\u201d White House communications director Ben LaBolt said in a statement.<\/p>\n
At the White House, her chief of staff, Jordan Finkelstein, created an email distribution list, called WWBakedGoodAlert, to inform staff when Dunn brought in freshly baked goods to share. She baked blackberry lemon cake Tuesday morning, said one person familiar with her cooking schedule, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe is so confident and fearless in what she does,\u201d said T.J. Ducklo, a communications adviser to the Harris campaign, who worked for Dunn in the Biden White House and on his 2020 campaign. \u201cWhen she gives you an assignment and says, \u2018You are going to do this, and I know you can,\u2019 it makes you feel like you can.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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