Now Kamala’s Chief of Staff leaves: Tiny Flournoy becomes VP’s most senior aide to join exodus

Kamala Harris‘ chief of workers Tina Flournoy is leaving the vp’s workers, making her the most senior member of workers exodus that has been happening for months.

The information comes simply weeks after it was revealed that her deputy chief of workers can also be leaving. 

Harris’ workplace has already seen the departure of excessive profile figures together with her former senior advisor Symone Sanders. 

Flournoy is a longtime Democratic operative who served as Bill Clinton‘s chief of workers when he left the White House, and touring chief of workers for 2000 Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Lieberman.

Her successor, Lorraine Voles, additionally has deep Clinton ties, and was an advisor to 2008 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton throughout her marketing campaign. 

She joined the Harris group final summer season. 

Flournoy is the twelfth member of Harris’ workers to depart, after a sequence of reviews about inside conflicts.

The listing of these leaving now consists of her deputy chief of workers, her speechwriter, her chief spokeswoman, her safety advisor, and different figures in her workers. 

‘Tina has been a valued advisor and confidant to me and super chief for the workplace,’ Harris stated in a written launch. ‘Tina is the consummate public servant and I’ll proceed to depend on her recommendation, counsel and friendship.’ 

The struggles proceed to trigger complications for Harris. On Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki fielded one more query from a Fox News correspondent about how Harris’ designated effort to tackle ‘root causes’ of migration, at the same time as unlawful immigration continues on the southern border. 

She was requested if Biden nonetheless had ‘confidence’ in Harris, given her position. 

‘He completely does and is grateful for her work in doing precisely that,’ Psaki responded. 

The Washington Post reported on Flournoy’s departure,  simply weeks after it was revealed that deputy chief of workers Michael Fuchs is about to depart the administration in May.

Fuchs has suggested Harris on home and worldwide points, helped handle workers and accompanied her on international journeys, and had ties to each Bill Clinton and former President Barack Obama. 

It all comes at a time of elevated scrutiny on the White House forward of 2024, following a report that Biden advised Obama he plans to run once more.

Both Biden and Harris have low public approval rankings. 

The information broke on a day when Harris is on the West Coast, with occasions in San Francisco together with a speech on the maternal well being disaster earlier than returning house to Los Angeles. 

Staffers within the vp’s workplace have been leaping ship after a 12 months full of messaging blunders and a barrage of private assaults on the VP, mixed with viral rumors of toxicity inside the workplace and tensions between Harris’s and President Biden’s workplaces. 

Kirsten Allen has joined Harris workers as her new press secretary, shifting over from the Department of Health and Human companies (HHS) after three high-profile departures within the VP’s press store. 

Jamal Simmons joined Harris’ workers as communications director. 

The announcement of Allen’s hiring got here simply after juicy particulars of stress and chaos within the VP’s workplace have trickled out in leaked excerpts of ‘This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future,’ by New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns. 

Harris’ workplace kicked up a fuss over a Vogue cowl that pictured the vp in sneakers earlier than being advised to again down by President Biden’s workplace who stated issues over the quilt have been ‘first world issues,’ in accordance to the e-book. 

Harris reportedly despatched out her chief of workers to scold Biden’s staffers for not standing up when she entered the room, the way in which they do for the president, and her some in her workplace complained about Biden’s ‘all-white inside circle.’ 

They complained about Harris being assigned to work on immigration with Northern Triangle international locations, and the VP herself hissed at Biden for calling her ‘border czar,’ insisting she was centered on the ‘root causes,’ in accordance to the e-book.  

There has been a stream of greater than 10 departures since June. The vp’s workplace may make use of up to round 50 staffers at any given time. Some turnover is extraordinary in any administration, together with after the primary 12 months or so.