Trump names campaign head Susie Wiles as his White House chief of staff

U.S. president-elect Donald Trump has named Susie Wiles, the manager of his victorious campaign, arsenic his White House main of staff.

Wiles is wide credited wrong and extracurricular Trump’s interior ellipse for moving what was, by far, his astir disciplined and well-executed campaign. She mostly avoided the spotlight, adjacent refusing to instrumentality the mic to talk arsenic Trump celebrated his triumph aboriginal Wednesday morning.

“Susie is tough, smart, innovative, and is universally admired and respected. Susie volition proceed to enactment tirelessly to Make America Great Again,” Trump said successful a statement.

“It is simply a good deserved grant to person Susie arsenic the first-ever pistillate Chief of Staff successful United States history. I person nary uncertainty that she volition marque our state proud.”

Wiles is simply a longtime Florida-based Republican strategist who ran Trump’s run successful the authorities successful 2016 and 2020.

Before that, she ran Rick Scott’s 2010 run for Florida politician and concisely served arsenic the manager of erstwhile Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman’s 2012 statesmanlike campaign.