Kamala’s Failed Campaign Team Struggling To Worm Its Way Back Into The Swamp

Former Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign team is struggling to place itself back in the heart of the “swamp” as Trump and his allies take over Washington, D.C.

Harris is still mulling her own political future and recently signed on with Hollywood talent agency Creative Artists Agency. In the meantime, her former campaign staff hasn’t been as lucky in its search for work. Several advisers and staffers to the campaign have yet to break back into the swamp, with some working for low-level Democratic politicians and others starting up their own consulting businesses. (RELATED: Kamala Inspires ‘Ooohs’ And ‘Ahhs’ With Latest Word Salad Served Up To Broadway Cast)

One of Harris’s spokesmen, Charles Lutvak, went from the presidential campaign to the mayor of San Francisco’s office, where he serves as the press secretary and a senior communications advisor, according to a LinkedIn post. 

Ian Sams, once Biden’s White House counsel and a spokesperson for Harris, writes on his LinkedIn profile that he is self-employed as a consultant and strategic adviser. Sams writes that he is helping “private sector, non-profit and political clients” with a focus on “political and communications strategy, high-profile crisis communications, litigation and investigation communications, and brand and reputation protection.” There was no link to a company or website for Sams’s new venture.

Mia Ehrenberg, another former national spokesperson for Harris, is now the communications director for the left-wing political action group, Families Over Billionaires, according to her personal X account. Families Over Billionaires, which is propped up by several notable billionaires, is an organization that opposes renewing Trump’s tax cuts from his first term. Despite its big donors, the organization’s YouTube page has under 200 followers, with its latest ad campaign gaining under 6,000 views as of Wednesday afternoon.

Harris’ former principal deputy campaign manager, Quentin Fulks, was recently named a 2025 fellow at Georgetown University’s Institute of Politics and Public Service. As for the strategist who ran Harris’ 2024 campaign, David Plouffe, he appears to have landed a new foreign lobbying gig. Plouffe registered Feb. 9 to be a consultant with Precision Strategies, LLC to consult with an Indonesian group, according to the FARA documents. 

Plouffe will be paid $12,500 a month for his services working for the company on this consulting project, according to the public documents. Precision Strategies, a political consulting organization, has partnered with Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and March for Our Lives, a gun control advocacy organization.

Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris greet as they debate for the first time during the presidential election campaign at The National Constitution Center on September 10, 2024 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Other Harris campaign staffers haven’t publicly announced where they have landed post election, including former campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez and former campaign chairwoman Jennifer O’Malley Dillon. Top Harris economic adviser Gene Sperling hasn’t posted about a new job yet, but recently penned an opinion piece for MSNBC about the “three most likely ways Republicans will try to cut Medicaid.”

As for staffers that stuck with former President Joe Biden, they seem to be finding their way back into the swamp just fine. Many officials who staffed Biden’s White House, Department of Energy (DOE), and Commerce Department have recently taken jobs at law firms, activist groups, and universities, according to the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Adriana Azarian contributed to this story.