David Plouffe Quote

The American people know the economy is too weak. Too many of them are suffering. So the question for Washington is, are we going to continue to play political games and - and - or are we going to say, we can do something right now to create jobs, to put money in the pockets of the middle-class, hire construction workers, teachers, veterans?

David Plouffe

The American people know the economy is too weak. Too many of them are suffering. So the question for Washington is, are we going to continue to play political games and - and - or are we going to say, we can do something right now to create jobs, to put money in the pockets of the middle-class, hire construction workers, teachers, veterans?

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About David Plouffe

David Plouffe (; born May 27, 1967) is an American political and business strategist best known as the campaign manager for Barack Obama's successful 2008 presidential campaign. He was the senior advisor to Kamala Harris' 2024 presidential campaign. A long-time Democratic Party campaign consultant, he was a partner at the party-aligned campaign consulting firm AKPD Message and Media, which he joined in 2000.
Plouffe was an outside senior advisor to Obama since the president's first day in office. In 2011, he was appointed to a White House role as a senior advisor to the President following the resignation of David Axelrod, who went on to start Obama's reelection campaign. In September 2014, Plouffe became the Senior Vice President of Policy and Strategy for Uber. In May 2015, he became a full-time strategic adviser for Uber.
In January 2017, Plouffe joined the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to lead its policy and advocacy efforts. In 2019, Politico reported he had joined the board of directors of liberal nonprofit ACRONYM, where he would advise an anti-Trump digital campaign.