Top Biden aides to leave the White House for campaign leadership roles

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s campaign is shaking up its senior leadership, having Jennifer O’Malley Dillon and Mike Donilon move from their roles in the White House to top jobs for his re-election bid, according to campaign officials.

In the coming weeks as the campaign shifts to a general election posture, the expected staff moves will have Donilon playing a central role in the campaign’s messaging and paid media strategy and O’Malley Dillon in the organizing and execution of the campaign’s path to 270 electoral votes — all under the leadership of campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez, the officials said.

Chavez Rodriguez said in an interview Tuesday night that she’s “excited to have an all-hands-on-deck approach with colleagues that we know have been critical Biden advisers and were on the 2020 campaign."

She added that the campaign has a clear focus on “what it is that we need to do between now and when it is official who our opponent is going to be.”

“All of that work is well underway and will continue at the clip that we need it to,” she said.

O’Malley Dillon was Biden’s campaign manager in 2020. She has been deputy chief of staff at the White House since Biden became president.

Donilon was a chief strategist for Biden’s 2020 campaign and has been an adviser to the president since he took office in 2021.

Chavez Rodriguez has been campaign manager since last year.

Chavez Rodriguez earlier praised Donilon and O’Malley Dillon in a statement, saying that “we’re thrilled to have their leadership and strategic prowess focused full-time” on sending Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris back to the White House for a second term.

In a statement Tuesday night, Biden praised both advisers for talents that he said were