
The ex-head of the press service of the US State Department Jen Psaki will become a White House spokesman, the headquarters of the US presidential candidate from the Democratic Party Joe Bayden, who announced his victory, said. Psaki has become part of a communications team, which is completely consisted of women.
"Direct and truthful communication with the American people is one of the most important duties of the president, and this team will be entrusted with a huge responsibility for the communication of the American people with the White House. I am proud to inform today about the first communications team consisting only of women," the Biden statement published on the website of his transition team.
“I consider it an honor to work again with Joe Biden, with whom I worked at the Obama -Biden administration,” Psaki wrote on Twitter . Note that she was already responsible for communications at Biden's headquarters to transfer power.
Psaki was a press secretary of the former US President Barack Obama during the 2012 elections. From 2013 to 2015, she served as an official representative of the US State Department. In this role, she actively commented on the conflict in the east of Ukraine.
Now the post of spokesman for the White House is held by the former presenter of CNN and speaker of the National Republican Party Committee Kayili Mackenani. In total, with the current President Donald Trump, the post of spokesman was held by four people. Stefani Grisham, who served in 2019-2020, did not hold a single press conference.
Bayden also announced the White House Communications Director of Kate Bridingfield, who worked as the deputy head of the Biden campaign. The sorrowful adviser to Bayden Etley Etley, will be appointed director of Harris communications, and Simon Sanders, who was previously press secretary of Senator Bernie Sanders, will take the post of senior adviser and chief press secretary of the vice president.
Karin Jean-Pierre, a former political analyst NBC and MSNBC, who worked as senior adviser to Biden and chief of staff of his vice president Kamaly Harris, will become the chief of the press secretary. The role of the deputy director of the White House communications will be performed by the Tobar.