Joe Biden has hired the national press secretary from Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign to be a member of his 2020 team.
Symone Sanders, who became a CNN political analyst after she left her position working for the Vermont senator in the summer of 2016, met with Biden several weeks ago, according to the Associated Press.
Sanders, 29, will serve as a senior adviser to the Biden presidential campaign. She was a spring 2018 resident fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School.
“[Biden and his wife Jill] are a class act. Over the course of this campaign, Vice President Biden is going to make his case to the American ppl. He won’t always be perfect, but I believe he will get it right. PS – all stock photos aren’t created equal,” Sanders said in a tweet sharing the AP story.
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.@JoeBiden & @DrBiden are a class act. Over the course of this campaign, Vice President Biden is going to make his case to the American ppl. He won’t always be perfect, but I believe he will get it right. PS – all stock photos aren’t created equal ?. https://t.co/JXvgEGHaRI
— Symone D. Sanders (@SymoneDSanders) April 25, 2019
The hiring move marks a turnaround for Sanders after she argued in November 2016 that the Democratic Party does not “need white people leading” it.
“The Democratic Party is diverse, and it should be reflected as so in our leadership and throughout the staff at the highest levels from the vice chairs to the secretaries all the way down to the people working in the offices at the DNC,” she said in an interview with CNN after President Trump was elected in 2016.
Biden and Bernie Sanders have consistently performed well in recent polls and are considered the top two front-runners. Trump predicted earlier this month that one of them would win the Democratic primary, and he would run against them in 2020.
