JUST IN: Ex-Obama Campaign Manager David Plouffe Officially Joins Harris Campaign

David Plouffe , the political operative who helped guide Barack Obama’s successful campaign for the presidency in 2008, is joining presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris’s team.

CNN’s David Chalian weighed in on the news with Dana Bash live on CNN Friday.

“Well, our Jeff Zeleny is now confirming this report that David Plouffe, the campaign manager for Barack Obama’s historic 2008 presidential campaign, is now joining Vice President Harris’s campaign as a senior adviser,” began Chalian. “That’s according to a Democrat close to the campaign. I don’t know that it’s, I don’t think we have a sense of it’s a change or just an addition to, having, you know, one of the most celebrated and smart Democratic political strategists join the team to offer his counsel and advice is obviously going to be a welcome news to many Democrats who are following this.”

“We’ll see if that means he displaces someone,” he continued. “And if this is the beginning of a shift of command at the Harris campaign. When she took over the operation, she was very clear that Jen O’Malley Dillon and Julie Chávez Rodríguez were going to stay in their roles. So this may be bolstering that.”

“Yeah, sounds like bolstering. And, like, if they could get him, why wouldn’t they?” replied Bash.

Plouffe, who served as Obama’s campaign manager back in 2008, seemed less than enthusiastic when Joe Scarborough suggested that Plouffe could join the Harris campaign last month, but did express his support for the vice president.

“I’ve been very impressed by her appearances in interviews over the last few weeks. And she’s a prosecutor, and he’s [Donald Trump] a criminal. I like that match up,” he said at the time. “I think the Trump camp doesn’t seem like they were prepared for this, which is perhaps they might have been. And they seem like they’re kind of grasping.”

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