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Addisu Demissie
 Former campaign manager 2020 Booker presidential campaign 2020 presidential campaign staff | ||
Affiliation: Democratic | ||
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Addisu Demissie is the former campaign manager for U.S. Sen. Cory Booker's 2020 presidential campaign. Demissie was the campaign manager for Booker's 2013 special election to the Senate. Prior to Booker's presidential campaign, Demissie managed Gov. Gavin Newsom's (D-Calif.) 2018 gubernatorial campaign. He also worked on campaigns for Hillary Clinton, Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama, and John Kerry.[1]
Career
Demissie began his political career on Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign.[2] He worked on Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign during the 2008 primaries and was Obama's Ohio get-out-the-vote director for the 2008 general election.[1] Demissie was named political director of the Democratic National Committee's Organizing for America project in 2009.[3] In 2010, he was policy counsel at Google, before joining Emanuel's 2011 Chicago mayoral campaign as field director.[1] In 2011 and 2012, he worked on multiple campaigns in California.[3]
After managing Booker's successful 2013 Senate campaign, Demissie worked as national voter outreach and mobilization director for Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, and then as campaign manager for Newsom's 2018 California gubernatorial bid.[3]
As of August 2019, Demissie was a principal political consultant at 50+1 Strategies, which he co-founded in 2011. He was vice president and director of grassroots advocacy at The Messina Group from 2014 until 2017.[1]
He received a B.A. in political science from Yale University in 2001 and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 2008.[1]
Cory Booker 2020 presidential campaign
- See also: Cory Booker presidential campaign, 2020
Campaign strategy
In April 2019, Demissie told a group of reporters, "We’re not building this campaign to win a poll in April of 2019. We’re trying to win a primary in February of 2020."[4] Regarding campaign strategy in New Hampshire, he told the New Hampshire Union Leader, "The traditional, winnowing responsibility that New Hampshire has is even more critical when you have a field of 20."[5]
Key staff members
The table below shows a sampling of the candidate's 2020 national campaign staff members, including the campaign manager and some senior advisors, political directors, communication directors, and field directors. It also includes each staff member's position in the campaign, previous work experience, and Twitter handle, where available.[6] For a larger list of national campaign staff, visit Democracy in Action.
| Cory Booker presidential campaign national staff, 2020 | |||
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| Staff | Position | Prior experience | Twitter handle |
| Addisu Demissie | Campaign manager | Campaign manager, Gavin Newsom for Governor of California, 2018 | @ASDem |
| Matt Klapper | Senior advisor | Chief of staff, office of Sen. Cory Booker | @mattklapper |
| Tamia Booker | National political director | Deputy chief of staff, office of Sen. Cory Booker | @TamiaDBooker |
| Jessica Lovejoy | Primary states director | Campaign manager, Rebecca Dallet for Wisconsin Supreme Court, 2018 | @lovejoy941 |
| Jeff Giertz | National communications director | Communications director, office of Sen. Cory Booker | @jeffgiertz |
| Sabrina Singh | National press secretary | Regional deputy communications director, Democratic National Committee | @sabrinasingh24 |
| Lauren Dikis | National finance director | Finance director, Cory Booker for U.S. Senate, 2014 | @dikinator |
Media
This section contains media coverage, interviews, and profiles of Demissie.
Videos
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Interviews and profiles
- New Hampshire Union Leader, "Booker campaign official says NH is ‘more crucial’ despite early-voting states," April 20, 2019
- Iowa Starting Line, "Ep90: Running A Presidential Campaign, Joe Sanberg Interview," March 19, 2019
See also
- Sample Ballot Lookup
- Cory Booker
- Cory Booker presidential campaign, 2020
- Cory Booker presidential campaign staff, 2020
- Presidential candidates, 2020
- Presidential campaign managers, 2020
- Gavin Newsom
- Hillary Clinton
- Barack Obama
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Democracy in Action, "Cory 2020," accessed August 15, 2019
- ↑ The Mercury News, "Presidential candidates no longer ‘going with the white guy’ to run 2020 campaigns," March 7, 2019
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 50+1 Strategies, "Addisu Demissie," accessed August 15, 2019
- ↑ Daily Beast, "Cory Booker Hasn’t Taken Off Yet, but His Campaign Doesn’t Mind," April 15, 2019
- ↑ New Hampshire Union Leader, "Booker campaign official says NH is ‘more crucial’ despite early-voting states," April 20, 2019
- ↑ Democracy in Action, "Organization," accessed November 4, 2019
