Biden Ally Cedric Richmond Joins 2024 Campaign in Key Role

Mario Parker
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(Bloomberg) -- Cedric Richmond, who co-chaired Joe Biden’s successful 2020 campaign, will once again take that role on the president’s reelection team as the 2024 race enters its next phase.

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Richmond confirmed his move to the Biden campaign in an interview with Bloomberg News.

Richmond was Biden’s first director of the Office of Public Engagement, serving as the White House’s point person with key outside groups and activists. Richmond could leverage those relationships to help Biden with donor outreach as the campaign seeks to build its war chest.

He left the role in April 2022 to join the Democratic National Committee ahead of the midterm elections, in which the party outperformed historical expectations by expanding its US Senate majority and narrowly losing the House.

A former Louisiana congressman, Richmond also previously led the Congressional Black Caucus. Biden has already announced other co-chairs, including Hollywood mogul and Democratic megadonor Jeffrey Katzenberg. CNBC first reported on Richmond’s move to the campaign.

In addition to Richmond and Rufus Gifford — the US State Department’s chief protocol officer whose move to the campaign Bloomberg News reported last week — the Biden campaign said that DNC national finance chairman Chris Korge will join the reelection effort. Korge will serve as the finance chair for the Biden Victory Fund, which raises money for the president’s campaign and DNC.

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“Bringing in these trusted and known leaders that have a strong and proven record of helping win presidential campaigns sends a clear signal to the American people that we continue to build out a powerhouse campaign leadership team that knows what it will take to win in November 2024,” said Julie Chavez Rodriguez, Biden’s campaign manager, in a statement Monday.

Biden’s campaign announced Friday that it had raised $72 million in the second quarter — a total which includes money for the campaign, the DNC and state parties. The total far exceeds the amounts raised by his Republican rivals.

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