As we just reported, Susie Wiles, a senior adviser to the Trump campaign in this election cycle, has landed a key role in the administration.
Trump referred to Wiles as “the ice maiden” in his victory speech yesterday. She operates mostly “in the back”, the president-elect said, but she is known as one of the most feared political operatives in the US.
Less than a year after she started working in politics, she joined Ronald Reagan’s campaign ahead of his 1980 election.
In 2010, she turned Rick Scott, a then-businessman with little political experience, into Florida’s governor in just seven months. Scott is now a US senator.
Wiles met Trump during the 2015 Republican presidential primary and became the co-chair of his Florida campaign. He went on to carry the state by 1.6% over Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Florida Gov Ron DeSantis, who put her in charge of his successful gubernatorial race two years later, described Wiles as “the best in the business”.
She will be the first woman to serve in the White House role, according to the Trump campaign.
As we reported earlier, Wiles was rumoured to
