Harris taps former Clinton press secretary to join 2024 campaign

Brian Fallon, the press secretary for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton‘s 2016 presidential campaign, will join the Biden-Harris campaign as Vice President Kamala Harris‘s director of communications.

The campaign confirmed Fallon’s hiring Tuesday afternoon, and he is expected to start his new role in January.

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“Brian brings a wealth of expertise and knowledge on the issues that matter most to the American people,” Harris’s campaign chief of staff Sheila Nix said in a statement. “We’re thrilled to have him join the team, and know he will be a huge asset to reelecting President Biden and Vice President Harris.”

Fallon has served as the executive director of Demand Justice, a liberal advocacy group, since its founding in 2018. There, he has primarily focused on pushing for the confirmation of liberal judges to the federal court system and has repeatedly knocked President Joe Biden and other Democrats, including Fallon’s former boss, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), for failing to do enough to remake the federal judiciary.

Demand Justice is one of the leading voices calling for the expansion of the Supreme Court to offset a perceived conservative bias, an action the Biden administration has repeatedly declined to pursue.

“We always think that the White House could be doing more,” Fallon said in an interview over the summer after the Supreme Court had handed down a series of unfavorable rulings for the Biden administration. “The president has a very old school institutionalist-minded approach to the Supreme Court, where he doesn’t want to actively be seen as reducing public confidence, even if the court deserves it.”

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The Republican National Committee responded to Fallon’s hiring by highlighting a 2020 tweet of Fallon’s which has since been deleted.

“Meet Kamala’s new campaign communications director,” the RNC wrote alongside a screenshot of Fallon’s tweet reading, “Defund the police.”