Newsman: President-elect Donald Trump announced On Thursday, that campaign senior advisor Susie Wiles will be his White House chief of staff.
The 66-year-old Florida political consultant Wiles will make history by becoming the first woman to hold the title of White House chief of staff. Susie Wiles Served as Trump’s de facto campaign manager.
Susie Wiles have been described as a big reason for Trump’s political comeback to the White House. In 2018, she helped another Republican win when she steered Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to his first term in 2018.
Trump and DeSantis are not the only two high-profile Florida Republicans Wiles has been successful in helping. In 2010, Wiles aided Sen. Rick Scott’s campaign, who won re-election on Tuesday.
In that election, Scott was an unknown entity in Florida politics, but with Wiles’s help, he was able to tap into the tea party wave of that year’s midterm elections. Riding a wave of right-wing populism, he was able to defeat his GOP opponent in the primaries and narrowly win the general election.
Trump was thankful to Wiles in a statement following his win.
“Susie Wiles just helped me achieve one of the greatest political victories in American history, and was an integral part of both my 2016 and 2020 successful campaigns,” Trump said in the statement. “Susie is tough, smart, innovative, and is universally admired and respected. Susie will continue to work tirelessly to Make America Great Again.”
DeSantis pressured Trump to fire Wiles from his 2020 campaign in Florida, which he did. This came after DeSantis blamed Wiles of leaking a now controversial fundraising memo, which detailed charging lobbyists in order to play golf, among other things, with the governor.
Her early career in politics included working for New York Rep. Jack Kemp and both in the Reagan campaign and administration. She made a name for herself in Florida in 1995, helping Delaney become the first Republican mayor of Jacksonville since the Reconstruction era.
