For me, as a black woman, I just could not sit this out.”ADADJean-Pierre, 43, will begin her role with the Biden campaign next week. She gained prominence in 2008 as the southeast regional political director for then-candidate Barack Obama’s history-making presidential campaign. She served in the Obama White House as regional political director before working as deputy battleground states director on his 2012 reelection. Jean-Pierre said her hiring signals that Biden “understands how he became the presumptive nominee.”AD“Black voters, black women, have helped him get to this point,” she said. “When everybody was counting him out, black voters spoke out.

Source: Washington Post May 20, 2020 09:31 UTC