Symone Sanders, former chief spokesperson for Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris, announced on Twitter on Monday (December 10) that she was going to work for the MSNBC news channel.
"
I am delighted to join MSNBC
," wrote Symone Sanders, whose resignation was confirmed in early December by the White House.
“
There is a lot to learn, but I'm ready to get down to work
,” she added.
The television channel said for its part that its new recruit would "
host news programs on cable and on the Internet
".
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The departure of Symone Sanders comes in a complicated context for the unpopular Kamala Harris, who is struggling to find her place in the White House where she is in charge of particularly delicate missions, relating to the access of minorities to the vote or the origins of the migration crisis at the southern border.
A departure without tensions
Kamala Harris also recently changed communications director, and this recruitment is causing some stir.
Jamal Simmons, who now heads the vice president's communications, had to publicly apologize after old tweets about illegal immigrants surfaced.
In these messages, he was surprised that two undocumented migrants interviewed on television were not arrested by the police.
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In early December, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki assured that the departure of Symone Sanders was without particular tensions.
"
She will always be part of the Biden-Harris family and it's only natural to be ready to do something new after a few years
," said Jen Psaki, who had meanwhile worked as a consultant for CNN afterwards. leaving the Obama administration and before joining Joe Biden's team.
