U.S. President Joe Biden has announced his re-election run.
In doing so, he is teaming the veteran advisers who helped him win the White House once with a newer generation of diverse leadership for his 2024 re-election campaign, according to Reuters.
In the 2020 election—whose result former President Trump disputed and then tried to overturn—Biden won 306 electoral college votes, 74 more than Trump, and over 7 million more popular votes than Trump.
Biden plans to appoint senior White House official Julie Chavez Rodriguez to run his campaign. She will coordinate with White House senior advisers and oversee an operation likely to spend over $1 billion and hire hundreds of full-time employees. According to a White House press release, Chavez Rodriguez is senior advisor and assistant to the president and director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. Prior to joining the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris Administration, she was a deputy campaign manager on their campaign.
Chavez Rodriguez is being paired with deputy Quentin Fulks, who ran state campaigns in the crucial battleground of Georgia. Fulks, who is Black, ran Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock's 2022 re-election campaign that handed Democrats control of the Senate.
Other key names being considered include senior adviser Mike Donilon, White House counselor Steve Richetti, Democratic communications veteran Michael Tyler and deputy White House Chief of Staff Jen O'Malley Dillon (the campaign manager behind Biden's 2020 campaign), among others.
—Andrew Davis
