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Mandy Grunwald to Join Clinton Team
5:41 pm ET 5:41 pm ET

Jonathan Martin
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[image: Hillary Rodham Clinton speaking in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, last
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Hillary Rodham Clinton speaking in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, last month.
Credit Liam Richards/The Canadian Press, via Associated Press

Mandy Grunwald, an adviser to the Clintons for over two decades and a top
strategist to Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, is expected to
serve as a senior adviser for communications to Hillary Rodham Clinton’s
all-but-certain presidential bid.

Ms. Grunwald will advise Mrs. Clinton on strategy and make some of the
television ads along with Jim Margolis, whose firm, GMMB, is expected to
take the lead on producing and buying the commercials. The pollster Joel
Benenson is another senior adviser poised to work for Mrs. Clinton on her
second White House run.

Ms. Grunwald, an original member of Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential
campaign team who also worked on Mrs. Clinton’s 2008 White House bid,
represents a nod to continuity after a stream of recent stories about Mrs.
Clinton’s plans to hire advisers close to her one-time rival for the White
House, President Obama. Mrs. Clinton’s camp has put out word that she will
look to Mr. Margolis, Mr. Benenson, Robby Mook, John D. Podesta and
Jennifer Palmieri — each of whom has worked or now works for Mr. Obama — to
build her campaign. (Some of them, it should be noted, also have ties to
the Clintons.)

The move to bring Ms. Grunwald onto the nascent campaign also underscores
how unlikely it is that Ms. Warren will run for president. Ms. Grunwald
produced Ms. Warren’s TV ads in her 2012 Senate campaign, and the two
remain close; Ms. Grunwald hosted a book party last year to celebrate the
release of Ms. Warren’s autobiography.

The decision to tap Ms. Grunwald, as well as Ms. Palmieri as communications
director, could also address questions about gender diversity in Mrs.
Clinton’s still-developing campaign team. Mrs. Clinton has a number of
women in her inner circle, including Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin, but
grumbles have been growing louder in recent weeks from some female
Democratic operatives about the number of men who appear bound to take
senior roles on Mrs. Clinton’s likely campaign.

Ms. Grunwald counts a number of Democratic senators as her clients and is
particularly close to several women in the Senate, including Senators Tammy
Baldwin of Wisconsin, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Jeanne Shaheen of New
Hampshire, who was one of the only Democratic senators last year to fend
off a Republican challenge.


Eric D. Schwerin
eschwerin@rosemontseneca.com

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