Note: This post was originally published last year after we asked reporters who covered the 2016 presidential campaign to share the most memorable person they met on the campaign trail. Bloomberg Politics' Jennifer Jacobs shared the story of Hope Hicks. Hicks later became a senior communications adviser in President Donald Trump's administration. In August, she was named the White House's interim communications director. The White House announced on September 12 that she would be permanently assuming the role.
Trump ran an unconventional campaign, and the one person who was by his side everywhere he traveled was his 27-year-old press secretary Hope Hicks. Bloomberg Politics reporter Jennifer Jacobs first met Hicks in the early days of Trump's campaign in Iowa. Hicks had previously worked for Ivanka Trump's fashion company and had no experience in politics, but as Jacobs explains, this spotlight-avoiding press secretary wound up in the middle of "one of the most compelling candidacies and controversial campaign seasons in history."
