Kamala Harris Hires Top Socialist Strategist to Advise Campaign
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Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris has hired a prominent socialist strategist to advise her 2024 campaign.
Vice President Harris is bringing in Deborah Mattinson, a top advisor to the U.K.’s ruling far-left Labour Party.
According to Politico, Mattinson will advise Harris and her campaign in the final weeks running up to Election Day.
Mattinson, a top adviser to recently elected U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, is set to travel to Washington, D.C. next week.
She will hold meetings with strategists for the Harris-Walz campaign, according to Politico.
Mattinson will brief the strategists on how Starmer and the Labour Party secured the prime minister seat in July, the outlet reported.
Labour is a left-wing party affiliated with the Party of European Socialists.
The party is responsible for many of the socialist policies installed in the U.K. in the 1960s.
Those policies, many of which still linger today, are credited with severely weakening the once-dominant British pound over the years.
A former colleague who worked alongside Mattinson on Labour’s campaign told Politico that Mattinson wants to put the “‘hope and change stuff’ to one side” and keep Harris focused on appealing to undecided swing state voters.
Mattinson is not the only Starmer aide to meet with Harris’s team, Politico reported.
Some of the prime minister’s closest aides made a trip to the Democratic National Convention where they met with Harris’s team, according to the outlet.
Those aides include Starmer’s head of political strategy Morgan McSweeney and communications director Matthew Doyle.