Beto O'Rourke hires Obama delegate chief Jeff Berman
Beto ORourke has hired Jeff Berman, Barack Obamas delegate selection director and a delegate strategist for Hillary Clinton in 2016, as senior adviser for delegate strategy, the campaign said Thursday.
The hire comes as ORourke, after a highly unstructured U.S. Senate campaign last year, moves to piece together a more traditional operation for his presidential run. Berman was an instrumental force on Obamas 2008 campaign, helping guide Obama's effort through the Democratic primarys complex delegate landscape.
Jen OMalley Dillon, ORourkes campaign manager, said in a statement that Berman was one of the first people I reached out to when I came on board because delegate strategy is so critical to our overall strategy.
ORourkes El Paso, Texas-based campaign has been marked by operational uncertainty since March, when ORourke entered the race before installing OMalley Dillon. Two strategists who worked on ORourkes Senate campaign, Becky Bond and Zack Malitz, abruptly departed earlier this year, as first reported by BuzzFeed.
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