Vice President Kamala Harris continues to build a national presidential campaign while also recruiting White House staff amid a flood of press inquiries in the wake of her unexpected presidential bid.
Her office is bringing on Nate Evans, a veteran of her short-lived 2020 presidential campaign, as a senior communications adviser. He’s coming from his most recent role as principal senior advisor for strategy and communications to Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Before his time at the U.S. mission to the U.N., he was deputy chief of staff to Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and served on Harris’ 2020 campaign as head of rapid response and New Hampshire’s communications director.
Kirsten Allen, Harris’ communications director, and Ernie Apreza, her press secretary, will continue in their White House roles.
At campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, a growing press and communications team is being built, led by communications director Michael Tyler and Brian Fallon, a senior communications adviser to Harris who is primarily responsible for crafting her daily messaging and negotiating with television networks for presidential debates and interview requests.
They have been joined in recent weeks by a handful of White House staffers, including Ian Sams, who until last month handled press inquiries for the Biden administration regarding Republican congressional oversight investigations and the special counsel’s inquiry into President Biden’s alleged mishandling of classified documents. which was eventually closed without prosecution.
While Harris is expected to focus on campaign-related activities in the final seven weeks before Election Day, she is also still busy with official duties, including attend events Wednesday to commemorate the September 11 terrorist attacks. She also attends high-level national security briefings at the White House.
With Congress negotiating a short-term spending agreement and now that she has processed dozens of final nominations for Biden, there is always a chance she could be called to Capitol Hill to cast tie-breaking votes in the Senate.
