President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday that he had chosen Karoline Leavitt, 27, to become White House spokesperson.
A position as prestigious as it is exposed for the one who proved herself alongside him during the campaign.
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Donald Trump continues to reward those who allowed him to return to the White House. After a first round of nominations, the Republican announced Friday that he had chosen Karoline Leavitt to become his next spokesperson. A promotion for this 27-year-old woman who was his press secretary during the campaign.
Prestigious, the position is also very exposed: she will have to answer questions from the press on camera almost daily. “Karoline is intelligent, strong and has proven to be a very effective communicator“, declared Donald Trump in a press release. She will work under the leadership of Steven Cheung, communications director of the campaign, who will take over this same title at the White House. According to Donald Trump, “she will excel at the lectern and help us convey our message to the American people so that America can become a great nation again“.
“I didn’t grow up in a political family”
Although she is little known to the general public, Karoline Leavitt already knows the mysteries of power well. She actually worked in Congress as communications manager for Elise Stefanik, a 40-year-old New York State representative, recently appointed by Donald Trump to the post of United States ambassador to the UN. She also personally campaigned in 2022 to be elected to the House as a New Hampshire state representative, but suffered a defeat.
“I didn’t grow up in a political family. Like most Americans, I grew up in a middle-class, entrepreneurial family here in my home state of New Hampshire. I dove into politics in college“, she said Friday in a Fox News podcast. She recounts helping a team from this channel popular with conservatives at her university in Saint Anselm, when she was, during the Republican primaries in 2016, “one of the only conservative people on campus.” “That’s when I decided what I wanted to do with my career.”added the latter.
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