Jen O’Malley Dillon, President Joe Biden’s deputy chief of staff, and senior advisor Mike Donilon announced they’ll leave their White House positions next month to join the President’s re-election campaign, the Washington Post announced. O’Malley Dillon will become campaign chair with Donilon as the campaign’s senior strategist. O’Malley Dillon was Biden’s campaign manager when Biden beat Trump in 2020.
The shift signals Biden is listening to leaders in the Democratic Party. In a meeting earlier this month, former President Barack Obama echoed the concerns of some pundits and strategists, telling Biden he needed to add more senior staff to his campaign to give his re-election effort more urgency.