Jen Psaki, Joe Biden's spokesperson, will leave the White House to move to progressive TV MSNBC, where she is expected to appear on some shows and host a program for the Nbc streaming platform Peacock.
She herself had announced last May that she would be leaving within a year, abandoning a job that she had defined exhausting. The 43-year-old, of Greek and Polish descent, mother of two, had entered the upper echelons of American politics under the Obama administration, first as director of communications and then as a spokesperson for the White House. So she was made a spokesperson for the State Department.
After a spell as a political commentator at CNN, she ended up under the wing of Joe Biden, who had appointed her as a spokesperson for the White House, at the top of an almost all female communications staff. Renamed "Piperita Patty" for her red hair that has become iconic, for over a year she represented the presidency on all fronts in an impeccable way, without gaffes or smudges.
In pole position to replace her is Kate Bedingfield, 41, currently director of communications at the White House and veteran of Biden's inner cycle, of which she was director of communications when she was vice president and then number two of the presidential campaign in 2020. Or the vice “Press secretary” Karine Jean-Pierre, the first African American to serve in this role.
(Unioneonline / D)
