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Who is Susie Wiles, the woman behind Trump's historic return to the Oval Office?

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

President-elect Trump began putting his new team in place, announcing that his campaign manager, Susie Wiles, will be his chief of staff when he takes office next year. She is the first woman to be appointed to that position. A veteran of Florida politics, Wiles ran campaigns for Sen. Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis before running Trump's winning bid. Geoff Bennett discussed more with Marc Caputo. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Welcome to the NewsHour.

0:02.2

President-elect Donald Trump began putting his new team in place,

0:06.2

announcing that his campaign manager, Susie Wiles,

0:09.2

will be the White House chief of staff when he takes office next year.

0:12.9

Wiles is the first woman to be appointed to that position,

0:15.7

and during his victory speech Wednesday morning,

0:18.1

Mr. Trump praised Wiles for helping engineer his sweeping victory.

0:22.7

Susie likes to stay sort of in the back, let me tell you. The Ice Baby. We call her the Ice Baby.

0:30.3

Chris, come here, Chris. Susie likes to stay in the background. She's not in the background.

0:39.8

A veteran of Florida politics, Wiles ran successful campaigns for Senator Rick Scott

0:44.9

and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis before running Donald Trump's winning bid for re-election.

0:49.9

For a closer look, we're joined now by Mark Caputo, national political reporter for

0:54.0

the bulwark and previously covered politics in his home state of Florida for years. Mark,

0:58.6

it's great to have you here.

0:59.6

Hi, thanks.

1:00.6

So in a traditional White House, the Chief of Staff oversees strategy, coordination,

1:05.2

policy decisions. It's arguably the most important personnel decision a president can make.

1:10.5

What, if anything, can we take away from Donald Trump's selection of Susie Wiles to serve

1:15.0

as his chief of staff?

1:17.2

Donald Trump wants to stick with a winning team.

1:19.7

He enjoyed great success against what seems like great odds this cycle.

1:25.9

His two previous presidential campaigns were always marred by sort of infighting

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