Jo Jorgensen presidential campaign staff, 2020
Date: November 3, 2020 |
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Last updated June 11, 2020.
This page contains a select list of Jo Jorgensen's campaign staff. They are presented alongside their positions in the campaign, their most recent positions prior to the campaign, and their Twitter handles.
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Campaign staff in context
Campaign staff plays an important role in the presidential primaries. The makeup of a candidate's staff can signal the strength of their support from influential party activists and whether they are aligning with a particular faction or group within the party. Eric Appleman of Democracy in Action describes candidates' efforts to hire staffers as a "race for talent, both nationally and in key early states." He adds, "The goal is to assemble a team of top talent that can work together effectively to mobilize resources, boost the candidate and his or her message, and ultimately secure the party's nomination."[1]
Presidential candidates will typically have a national staff, which is overseen by a campaign manager and assisted by political consultants, senior advisors, professional polling firms, and key stakeholders such as interest group leaders and major financial supporters. They also build organizations in individual states that are overseen by state directors and staffed by party activists and political professionals well-versed in the particular politics of the area. Candidates often appoint elected officials and other important figures in their party's coalition as chairs of their national campaign and state-level campaigns.[1]
Jorgensen campaign overview
- See also: Jo Jorgensen presidential campaign, 2020
Jo Jorgensen was the 2020 Libertarian Party presidential nominee. She was nominated at the Libertarian National Convention on May 23, 2020, becoming the first woman to lead the party's presidential ticket.[2][3] She lost the general election on November 3, 2020.
Her running mate was entrepreneur and podcaster Jeremy "Spike" Cohen.
Jorgensen framed her campaign as an alternative to Democratic and Republican policies she said created trillion-dollar deficits and led to involvement in expensive and deadly foreign wars. "Big government mandates and programs created these problems. To solve them, we need to make government smaller – much, much smaller," her campaign website said.[4]
She was the Libertarian vice presidential nominee in 1996.[5]
National staff
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.
| Jo Jorgensen presidential national campaign staff, 2020 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Staff | Position | Prior experience | Twitter handle |
| Joe Hauptmann | National campaign chair | Former chairman, Libertarian Party of Indiana | @JoeHauptmann |
See also
- Presidential election key staffers, 2020
- Presidential candidates, 2020
- Libertarian Party presidential nomination, 2020
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Democracy in Action, "Building Campaign Organizations (2019)," accessed May 10, 2019
- ↑ Washington Times, "Libertarians nominate psychologist grandmother to be presidential candidate," May 24, 2020
- ↑ YouTube, "LNC Convention Day 2," May 23, 2020
- ↑ Jorgensen 2020, "Issues," accessed June 11, 2020
- ↑ Jorgensen 2020, "About Dr. Jo Jorgensen," accessed June 11, 2020
- ↑ Democracy in Action, "Organization," accessed November 4, 2019
