Presidential campaign staff transfers, resignations, and terminations, 2024
Date: November 5, 2024  |
2024 • 2020 • 2016 |
The following charts show key national and early state campaign staffers who have transferred or departed from a 2024 presidential campaign. Key staffers include campaign managers, policy directors, finance directors, national press secretaries, senior advisers, and related positions.
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Visit Presidential election key staffers, 2024 to see our coverage of current campaign staff members.
Here are links to the candidates' staff pages:
- Joe Biden (D)
- Dean Phillips (D)
- Marianne Williamson (D)
- Ryan Binkley (R)
- Chris Christie (R)
- Ron DeSantis (R)
- Nikki Haley (R)
- Asa Hutchinson (R)
- Vivek Ramaswamy (R)
- Donald Trump (R)
Here are the links to staff pages for candidates who withdrew from the Democratic or Republican primaries:
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (D) (Kennedy withdrew from the Democratic primary and announced an independent presidential run on October 9, 2023.)
- Doug Burgum (R) (Burgum withdrew from the Republican primary on December 4, 2023.)
- Larry Elder (R) (Elder withdrew from the Republican primary on October 26, 2023.)
- Will Hurd (R) (Hurd withdrew from the Republican primary on October 9, 2023.)
- Perry Johnson (R) (Johnson withdrew from the Republican primary on October 20, 2023.)
- Mike Pence (R) (Pence withdrew from the Republican primary on October 28, 2023.)
- Tim Scott (R) (Scott withdrew from the Republican primary on November 12, 2023.)
- Corey Stapleton (R) (Stapleton withdrew from the Republican primary on October 13, 2023.)
- Francis Suarez (R) (Suarez withdrew from the Republican primary on August 29, 2023.)
Campaign staff in context
Campaign staff plays an important role in the presidential primaries. The makeup of a candidate's staff can signal the strength of their support from influential party activists and whether they are aligning with a particular faction or group within the party. Eric Appleman of Democracy in Action describes candidates' efforts to hire staffers as a "race for talent, both nationally and in key early states." He adds, "The goal is to assemble a team of top talent that can work together effectively to mobilize resources, boost the candidate and his or her message, and ultimately secure the party's nomination."[1]
Presidential candidates will typically have a national staff, which is overseen by a campaign manager and assisted by political consultants, senior advisors, professional polling firms, and key stakeholders such as interest group leaders and major financial supporters. They also build organizations in individual states that are overseen by state directors and staffed by party activists and political professionals well-versed in the particular politics of the area. Candidates often appoint elected officials and other important figures in their party's coalition as chairs of their national campaign and state-level campaigns.[1]
Democrats
Marianne Williamson
| Marianne Williamson presidential campaign staff, 2024 (Departures) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Staff | Previous position | Departure date | New position |
| Roza Calderon[2] | Campaign manager | June 20, 2023 | Unknown |
| Peter Daou[3] | Campaign manager | May 20, 2023 | Unknown |
Republicans
Vivek Ramaswamy
| Vivek Ramaswamy presidential campaign staff, 2024 (Departures) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Staff | Previous position | Departure date | New position |
| Gail Gitcho[4] | Senior advisor | May 30, 2023 | Unknown |
| Henry Goodwin[4] | Senior advisor | May 30, 2023 | Unknown |
Ron DeSantis
| Ron DeSantis presidential campaign staff, 2024 (Departures) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Staff | Previous position | Departure date | New position |
| David Abrams[5] | Communications director | July 14, 2023 | DeSantis affiliated political nonprofit |
| Tucker Obenshain[6] | External affairs director | July 14, 2023 | DeSantis affiliated political nonprofit |
Asa Hutchinson
| Asa Hutchinson presidential campaign staff, 2024 (Departures) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Staff | Previous position | Departure date | New position |
| Rob Burgess[7] | Campaign manager | October 31, 2023[8] | N/A |
See also
- Presidential candidates, 2024
- Presidential election key staffers, 2024
- Democratic presidential nomination, 2024
- Republican presidential nomination, 2024
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Democracy in Action, "Building Campaign Organizations (2019)," accessed May 10, 2019
- ↑ Politico, "New Williamson campaign manager was once accused of swindling fellow Democrats for concert tickets," June 8, 2023
- ↑ Twitter, "Peter Daou on April 13, 2023," accessed May 19, 2023
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Politico, "Ramaswamy fires consultants who worked simultaneously for LIV golf," May 30, 2023
- ↑ New York Post, "Ron DeSantis presidential campaign team unveiled — including ex-Trump staffer Dustin Carmack," May 24, 2023
- ↑ Politico, "Two senior DeSantis advisers are leaving to help run outside effort," July 14, 2023
- ↑ Arkansas Times, "Asa Hutchinson still running for president, will talk up his balanced back-the-blue bona fides today," July 17, 2023
- ↑ KARK, "Former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson’s presidential campaign manager to step down," October 28, 2023
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