Susie Wiles, a pro political strategist from Florida, become selected to be President-pick Donald Trump’s incoming White House leader of personnel. This appointment elevates her from the broadly speaking unseen submit of marketing campaign co-chair to the outstanding position of the president’s closest adviser and counsel.
Who is Susie Wiles?
She has years of experience in political circles. However, who is Wiles, the agent who is expected to become the first female to assume the influential position of chief of staff at the White House? She has worked in Florida for the most of her decades of experience.
In the 1970s, Wiles, the daughter of NFL star and sportscaster Pat Summerall, worked in New York Representative Jack Kemp’s Washington office.
After that, Wiles traveled to Florida, where she worked for Representative Tillie Fowler and provided advice to two Jacksonville mayors. Wiles is credited for assisting businessman Rick Scott win the governorship. This was followed by statewide races in the turbulent state of Florida politics.
She briefly oversaw Utah Governor Jon Huntsman’s 2012 presidential campaign before leading Trump’s 2016 campaign in Florida, where his victory put him in the White House. She and Ron DeSantis had a past together.
Wiles assisted in the election of Ron DeSantis as governor of Florida two years later. However, the two would grow estranged, and when the strategist was once more in charge of the then-president’s state campaign in 2020, DeSantis urged Trump’s team to sever its relations with her.
In the end, Wiles led Trump’s primary campaign against DeSantis, defeating the governor of Florida handily. Throughout the race, Trump campaign aides and their outside allies gleefully ridiculed DeSantis, making fun of his laugh, his eating habits, and his alleged use of lifts in his boots. They also used insider information, which many believed to have originated from Wiles and other Trump campaign staff members who had also worked for DeSantis and had had negative experiences.
When Susie Wiles made her statement, she had only made three posts on X this year. Wiles made a rare social media appearance in January, just before DeSantis withdrew from the presidential campaign. She answered a message stating that DeSantis had removed all future events from his campaign website.
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