Jeb Bush has engaged New York media trainer Jon Kraushar as the former Florida governor tries to salvage his flagging presidential campaign.Bush last month ordered a retrenchment of his campaign staff, cutting salaries and positions and reassigning workers amid low poll numbers.
New York magazine reports that Bush has brought in Kraushar to improve his television image and media savvy. Kraushar runs Jon Kraushar & Associates in New York and previously led Ailes Communications as a top lieutenant to Fox News guru Roger Ailes. He also wrote "You Are the Message: Secrets of the Mater Communicators" with Ailes in 1988.
Kraushar, who trains Fox News anchors, counts among his former clients as Rudy Giuliani, Steve Forbes, Dick Cheney and Eric Cantor.
Bush has been needled by Donald Trump for his demeanor and suffered blowback after attempting to attack Marco Rubio in the last presidential campaign debate.
Maggie Moran, who is well-connected in New Jersey and New York Democratic politics, has established Moxie Strategies in Asbury Park, NJ.
Husch Blackwell Strategies has added FleishmanHillard alum Michael Slatin as a principal in its public affairs group.
Rory Cooper, a veteran Republican operative and policy specialist, has joined Teneo’s Washington office as senior managing director in its strategy & communications practice.
Brian Fallon, who served as national press secretary for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential run, is signing on next month as Vice President’s Kamala Harris’ campaign communications director.
TikTok is nothing more than a Chinese propaganda tool that poses “a grave threat to America’s national security and, in particular, impressionable children and young adults,” say two Congressmen who want the platform registered as a foreign agent.
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