Career
Ducklo previously worked as a staff assistant for James Carville and Mary Matalin. [5] He volunteered for Karl Dean's 2007 Nashville mayoral campaign and interned in the United States Senate in 2008. [5] Ducklo also worked on Washington,D.C.'s bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics [5] and has held senior media relations posts at Bloomberg News,Viacom,and the Motion Picture Association of America. [7] In addition,Ducklo was a public relations advisor for Showtime's 2016 documentary The Circus . [7]
Ducklo joined the Biden campaign in April 2019,his first significant role on a political campaign. [5] Before joining the Biden campaign,Ducklo worked as senior communications director for NBC News. [7]
Deputy Press Secretary
On January 15,2021,it was announced that Ducklo would serve as a White House deputy press secretary in the Biden administration. [8]
In February 2021,People reported that Ducklo was in a romantic relationship with Alexi McCammond,who covered the Biden campaign and administration for NBC and MSNBC as a contributor and as a reporter for Axios in 2019 and 2020. As a result,McCammond was reassigned to covering Vice President Kamala Harris and progressive lawmakers in Congress. [9]
After the profile was released,Vanity Fair reported that Ducklo threatened Politico reporter Tara Palmeri,telling her he would "destroy her" if she published a story about his relationship with McCammond. He had also reportedly made "derogatory and misogynistic comments" toward Palmeri during a phone call and accused her of being "jealous" of his relationship with McCammond. [10] On February 12,Ducklo was suspended without pay for one week and apologized. [11] He resigned from his White House position the next day. [12] Palmeri later wrote on Puck that she and Ducklo made amends and she said that,"there are some people who deserve to be canceled,but T.J. Ducklo is not one of them." [13]
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