How Harris Is Still Building Her Team With 100 Days to Go
Sun, July 28, 2024 at 12:17 AM EDT
(KEK she’s that smart. Straight from the Daily Beast’s Mouth)
Just 45 minutes after President Biden announced on Sunday that he was stepping aside as the Democratic nominee, Team Kamala started to take shape.
Kate Conway, Biden’s creative director, dropped a message on the team’s Slack channel, “Please give a wave to this message if you’re online and available to do some design work right now. We are gearing up toward some quick pivots.”
Conway was now Kamala Harris’ creative director. Within three hours there was a new Harris for President Logo. In just over a day, her team rebuilt the Harris branding inventory, from print ads to website.
In her first interview since becoming Harris’ creative director (she was only appointed by Team Biden in March), Conway told Fast Company, “There’s really no overselling how difficult a task that is—the brand exists everywhere from yard signs and rally placards to the website, our social channels, and our ads.”
Kamala Harris 2024 branded t-shirts being printed
Harris’ campaign’s visual identity had to be created far more rapidly than the usual, carefully planned version that most candidates have at their disposal.
Most presidential nominees have months to build a campaign team. Kamala Harris has days.
The focus, till now, has been on Harris’ campaign chair, campaign manager, and growing speculation as to whom she might draft in to help with the political hand-to-hand combat. But any bid for president involves a huge campaign machinery, much of it out of sight. The speed that Harris has assumed the role of nominee is unprecedented, and one of her first decisions was to work with, and effectively inherit, most of the senior Biden campaign staff.
When she went to Biden’s campaign HQ in Wilmington on Monday she told staffers that she had asked Biden’s campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon, and campaign manager, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, to stay on. Both readily accepted. O’Malley Dillon became the first woman to manage a winning Democratic presidential campaign in 2020. She was hailed then as having a masterful ability to steer a candidate to the winning line of 270 Electoral College votes.
She’ll need those skills more than ever. Her candidate starts behind in the polls and is having to build a campaign team on the move. As a longtime close ally, Bakari Sellers, said immediately after Biden stepped aside, “We’re building the plane while we’re flying it.” The room where Harris met with staff in Wilmington had been hastily redecorated with a California flag and new “Harris for President” signs. But a Biden-Harris logo still hung on one wall.
Creative director Conway revealed that the pivot from Biden to Harris was so swift that staff waited at the printers so that they could rush the “Harris for President” signs to the Wilmington event. Fast Company reported that, “They had to run them there while they were still wet to make it in time.”
(She has planned the coup since 2020. The Coven has joined together for their witchcraft.)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/harris-still-building-her-team-041754281.html