Donna Brazile

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Donna Brazile

Donna Lease Brazile (born December 15, 1959 in Kenner, Louisiana ) is an American author, political analyst and Democratic Party official , which she led twice on an interim basis.

education

Brazile graduated from Louisiana State University with a bachelor's degree in industrial psychology in 1981 . She was able to study thanks to the Upward Bound program. Brazile is a Fellow of the Harvard Kennedy School . She then worked for various law firms in Washington, DC

Political activity

At the same time, she was politically active in the Democratic Party and participated in various presidential campaigns in the respective primary elections. In the 1990s, Brazile worked for Eleanor Holmes Norton and directed their office as an official delegate of the District of Columbia for the House of Representatives of the United States . After serving as an advisor in Bill Clinton's election campaigns for president, she was campaign leader for former Vice President Al Gore in the 2000 US presidential election . She was the first African-American to serve as a campaign manager in a US main election campaign. However, Gore ultimately lost to George W. Bush . She was then appointed head of the Democratic National Committee's Voting Rights Institute .

Brazile, who regularly participates as a delegate at the Democratic National Conventions , later became vice-chairman of the Democratic National Committee . As such, she took over the chairmanship twice on an interim basis: for the first time in April 2011 after previous chairman Tim Kaine resigned to run for a seat in the United States Senate . 15 days later, Debbie Wasserman Schultz took over the post. After her resignation in April 2016, Donna Brazile took over the chairmanship again until February 2017.

Analyst and Commentator

In addition to her work for the Democratic Party, Brazile is a sought-after political analyst. She regularly lectures at various universities and appears frequently on US television. She runs a consulting company that also offers training in particular.

Brazile was a commentator on CNN on The Situation Room and American Morning . She appeared regularly on CNN Tonight with Don Lemon and Anderson Cooper's CNN's Election Night Coverage . CNN ended its collaboration with Brazile in October 2016.

Brazile played himself in a few television shows: in the CBS drama The Good Wife and the Netflix drama House of Cards .

US presidential election 2016

In the context of the primary campaign for the 2016 US presidential election , Brazile was accused of supporting Hillary Clinton against her competitor Bernie Sanders . WikiLeaks posted emails in which Brazile pre-sented Hillary Clintons campaign notice of questions that would be raised in debates. As Brazile wrote in an email on October 11, 2016, as a CNN employee, she had early insight into questions. In that email, Brazile discussed a question on the death penalty that Clinton was asked in a similar fashion the next day at a debate organized by CNN.

Jake Tapper , a former colleague from Brazile at CNN , called this behavior "very worrying" and from a journalistic point of view "appalling". CNN then ended the collaboration with Brazile.

Audio books

  • 2017: Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House (author reading), Hachette Books, ISBN 978-1478999591

Works

  • 2004: Cooking with grease: stirring the pots in American politics , 2004.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hadas Gold: CNN, ABC cut ties with Donna Brazile, freeing her up for DNC job . In: The Politico , July 24, 2016. Retrieved October 17, 2016. 
  2. ↑ a b CNN Parts Ways With Donna Brazile, a Hillary Clinton Supporter .: "" CNN has severed ties with the Democratic strategist Donna Brazile, after hacked emails from WikiLeaks showed that she shared questions for CNN-sponsored candidate events in advance with friends on Hillary Clinton's campaign. ”“
  3. ↑ Political Cameos on 'The Good Wife'? Donna Brazile Likes Them. . In: The New York Times , The New York Times Company , October 1, 2014. Retrieved February 6, 2015. 
  4. ↑ https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/38478%7Ctitle= Title: One of the questions directed to HRC tomorrow is from a woman with a rash
  5. ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2016/10/11/then-cnn-contributor-donna-brazile-to-clinton-camp-sometimes-i-get-the-questions -in-advance /% 7Ctitle = Then- CNN contributor Donna Brazile to Clinton camp: Sometimes 'I get the questions in advance'
  6. ↑ http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/11/media/donna-brazile-wikileaks-question/%7Ctitle=Wikileaks  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective . Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. mystery: How did town hall question get to Clinton campaign?@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / money.cnn.com  
  7. ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2016/10/13/cnns-jake-tapper-blasts-leak-of-town-hall-question-to-clinton-campaign-journalistically -its-horrifying /% 7Ctitle = "CNN's Jake Tapper blasts leak of town hall question to Clinton campaign: 'Journalistically it's horrifying'"
  8. ↑ CNN Formally Severs Ties With Donna Brazile: 'Completely Uncomfortable' With Question-Sharing .
  9. ↑ CNN severs ties with Donna Brazile .
  10. ↑ http://news.yahoo.com/cnn-parts-ways-donna-brazile-debate-questions-were-040000691.html
personal data
SURNAME Brazile, Donna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brazile, Donna Lease (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Democratic Party politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Connoisseur (Louisiana)