Joseph Patrick Lockhart is a spokesman and communications consultant,best known for being the 21st White House Press Secretary during the administration of U.S. President Bill Clinton. Previously,he had worked as press secretary for several Democratic politicians,including Walter Mondale,Paul Simon,and Michael Dukakis. Following his work as press secretary in the Clinton administration,he was an advisor to John Kerry during his 2004 presidential campaign. He subsequently founded and became managing director of the communications consulting firm The Glover Park Group,worked for Facebook from 2011 to 2012,and was executive vice president of communications and public affairs for the NFL from 2016 to 2018.
The 2004 presidential campaign of John Kerry,the longtime U.S. senator from Massachusetts,began when he formed an exploratory committee on December 1,2002. On September 2,2003,he formally announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination. After beating John Edwards,Howard Dean,Wesley Clark,and other candidates in the primaries,he became the Democratic nominee,challenging Republican incumbent George W. Bush in the general election. Kerry selected Edwards as his running mate.
John Forbes Kerry is an American attorney,politician,and diplomat who served as the 68th United States secretary of state from 2013 to 2017 in the administration of Barack Obama. A member of the Forbes family and of the Democratic Party,he previously represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1985 to 2013 and later served as the first U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate from 2021 to 2024. Kerry was the Democratic nominee for president of the United States in the 2004 election,losing to then-incumbent president George W. Bush. He remains the most recent Democrat to have lost the popular vote in a presidential election.
Jay Carney is an American public relations officer,political advisor,and journalist who served as the United States' White House Press Secretary from 2011 to 2014,and Amazon's Senior Vice President of Global Corporate Affairs from 2015 to 2022. Since 2022,he has been Global Head of Policy and Communications at Airbnb.
Stephanie Cutter is an American political consultant. She served as an advisor to President Barack Obama during his first presidential term,and was deputy campaign manager for his 2012 re-election campaign. She previously worked in campaign and communications roles for other prominent Democrats including Ted Kennedy,John Kerry,and Michelle Obama. The New York Times described her as "a popular but polarizing face of [Obama's] campaign",and a "soldier who says the things the candidate can't say."
United States President Barack Obama,a member of the Democratic Party,was endorsed or supported by some members of the Republican Party and by some political figures holding conservative views in the 2008 election. Although the vast majority of Obama's support came from liberal constituencies,some conservatives identified in him shared priorities or other positive attributes. As in any election,voters can and sometimes do cross party lines to vote for the other party's nominee. Republican and conservative Obama supporters were often referred to as "Obama Republicans","Obamacans" or "Obamacons".
Jonathan Edward Favreau is an American political commentator and podcaster and the former director of speechwriting for President Barack Obama.
Tucker Eskew is a political and communications strategist in the United States who served as Deputy Assistant to the President for Media Affairs and Global Communications under President George W. Bush. He joined Senator John McCain's presidential campaign in August 2008 as senior advisor and counselor to Sarah Palin. He was the founder of Eskew Strategy Group,an Alexandria-based communications firm. In 2005,he merged the Eskew Group into a new bipartisan communications firm called Vianovo.
Christopher P. Lu is a Chinese American political advisor who serves as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations for Management and Reform. He is also an alternative representative to the United Nations General Assembly during his tenure as Representative for Management and Reform. In the Obama administration,Lu served as the United States Deputy Secretary of Labor from 2014 to 2017,the White House Cabinet Secretary and Assistant to the President from 2009 to 2013,and the co-chair of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Lu graduated from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and from Harvard Law School,where he was a classmate of Obama's.
Ellen Moran is the Vice-Chancellor for Strategic Communications and Marketing at the University of Pittsburgh. She previously served as Chief of Staff at the US Department of Commerce under Secretary Gary Locke from April 2009 to August 2011. She previously held the position of White House Communications Director. Her predecessor was Kevin Sullivan,who held the position under the Bush administration. Prior to her post at the White House,she was executive director of EMILY's List.
The 2008 presidential campaign of Evan Bayh,Democratic Senator and 46th Governor of Indiana,began shortly after the 2004 presidential election.
The post-presidency of Bill Clinton began on January 20,2001 following the end of Clinton's second term as president. Clinton was the 42nd president of the United States,serving from 1993 to 2001. After he left office,he continued to be active in the public sphere,touring the world,writing books,and campaigning for Democrats,including his wife,Hillary Clinton,who served as the junior U.S. senator from New York between 2001 and 2009 and the 67th United States Secretary of State between 2009 and 2013,on her presidential campaigns in 2008,in which she was runner-up for the Democratic nomination,and in 2016,when she lost the election to Donald Trump. After Clinton left office,he ended up forming a close friendship with George H. W. Bush and later,with George W. Bush.
Joshua Ryan Henry Earnest is an American political advisor who served as White House press secretary under President Barack Obama from 2014 to 2017. He was Obama's third Press Secretary and the 29th to hold the position. He succeeded Jay Carney as Obama's press secretary,in 2014,and was succeeded by President Donald Trump's first presidential press secretary,Sean Spicer. He is Executive Vice President of Communications and Advertising for United Airlines.
James David Margolis is an American political consultant and communications executive based in Washington,DC. He served as an advisor to Barack Obama in both his 2008 and 2012 campaigns for the White House. Margolis is a partner at GMMB,Inc.,a strategic communications firm and advertising agency. Previously he served as chief of staff to US Senator Kent Conrad,chief of staff to US Congressman Howard Wolpe,and Deputy Director of Communications for Vice President Walter Mondale's presidential campaign.
Bill Burton is an American political consultant and communication strategist who served as Deputy White House Press Secretary in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2011.
Brian Edward Fallon Jr. is an American political operative. He was the national press secretary for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign,a role he began in March 2015,and is currently a senior advisor for Kamala Harris's 2024 presidential campaign. In 2018,he founded the legal advocacy organization Demand Justice.
Eric Schultz is an American political advisor who served as Deputy White House Press Secretary in the Obama administration from 2014 to 2017. Recognized by Politico as the strategist "White House officials turn to in a crisis to handle communications",Schultz was originally hired at the White House in 2011 to respond to congressional oversight investigations.
Thomas Frederick Vietor IV is an American political commentator and podcaster. He was a spokesperson for President Barack Obama and the United States National Security Council from 2011 to 2012. He is a co-founder of Crooked Media with fellow former Obama staffers Jon Favreau and Jon Lovett,and co-hosts the podcasts Pod Save America and Pod Save the World.
