{"id":149,"date":"2024-11-11T07:18:07","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T07:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/get-your-susie-wiles-fix-here\/"},"modified":"2024-11-11T07:18:07","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T07:18:07","slug":"get-your-susie-wiles-fix-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/get-your-susie-wiles-fix-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Get your Susie Wiles fix here"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The hottest ticket in town is about to be Susie Wiles&#8217; cell phone number. <\/p>\n<p>There are many reasons why Trump chose Wiles, who will be the first woman to hold the job, as his chief of staff. She largely eschews the spotlight \u2014 except for when she\u2019s hitting back at Mark Cuban for saying Trump doesn\u2019t have \u201cstrong, intelligent women\u201d around him. It\u2019s a trait that has made her an effective operator and helped keep her in Trump\u2019s good graces. (When Trump called her onstage to speak at his victory party, she politely declined. \u201cSusie likes to stay in the background. She\u2019s not in the background,\u201d he said.)<\/p>\n<p>She is one of the few top officials to survive an entire Trump campaign and was part of the team that put together a far more professional operation for his third White House bid \u2014 even if the former president routinely broke through those guardrails, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>People close to Trump note that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/story\/susie-wiles-donald-trump-rise-2020?srsltid=AfmBOoqfizRxbhXT-PtNrnQ3z7_e4HUzvQ2QeNAx9ziTnB0_NoDYULUN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">she agreed to help the former president<\/a> back in March of 2021 when he was at a political low point, and he respects her opinion. Plus, she is the rare person in Trump\u2019s world who is widely admired, trusted and respected by lawmakers and young staffers alike.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/11\/07\/5-things-you-need-to-know-about-susie-wiles-00188391\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>5 things to know about her, at a glance<\/b><\/a><b>:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Her experience is in running campaigns \u2014 not the government.<\/li>\n<li>She\u2019s worked for a spectrum of Republicans, from Mitt Romney to Rick Scott.<\/li>\n<li>She turned Trump\u2019s dysfunctional political universe into something organized.<\/li>\n<li>She is a longtime lobbyist and her clients included the tobacco company Swisher International while simultaneously running the Trump campaign.<\/li>\n<li>She is the daughter of legendary sportscaster Pat Summerall.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/west-wing-playbook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>What some of the Trump surrogates have said<\/b><\/a><b>:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who remains in touch with Trump, recently advocated for Wiles on the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/6364196285112\">Guy Benson Show<\/a>,\u201d saying she would be a \u201cgreat chief of staff and should do the job.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Charlie Kirk, the influential conservative podcaster and Turning Point USA founder who campaigned extensively for Trump, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/charliekirk11\/status\/1854576800690827726\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">agreed in a post<\/a> on X: \u201cSusie Wiles ran Trump\u2019s best campaign of the three. &#8230; She\u2019s disciplined, she\u2019s smart, and she doesn\u2019t seek the limelight. She would make an incredible chief of staff.\u201d He was quickly backed up by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/realannapaulina\/status\/1854585982714069348?mx=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rep. Anna Paulina Luna<\/a> of Florida, where Wiles rose through the ranks as an operative.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSusie is the only one who can do it,\u201d said one Trump adviser who was granted anonymity to speak candidly. \u201cSusie is the one that everyone respects.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And ICYMI: Our own Michael Kruse&#8217;s long-read magazine piece from earlier this year: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2024\/04\/26\/susie-wiles-trump-desantis-profile-00149654\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Most Feared and Least Known Political Operative in America<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>A version of this report first appeared in West Wing Playbook, your guide to the preparations, personnel decisions and policy deliberations of Donald Trump&#8217;s presidential transition. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/west-wing-playbook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Sign up to get it in your inbox every weekday<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hottest ticket in town is about to be Susie Wiles&#8217; cell phone number. There are many reasons why Trump chose Wiles, who will be the first woman to hold the job, as his chief of staff. She largely eschews the spotlight \u2014 except for when she\u2019s hitting back at Mark Cuban for saying Trump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}