Despite not being one of the best-known faces or a media figure, experts describe her as “one of the most important people in American politics right now.”: “I don’t think anyone in our orbit has as much information as she does,” a Trump aide explained to the Politico magazine a few months ago. Today, he is credited with a key role in Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election.
His name: Susie Wiles. One of those people who do not speak publicly and do not appear in photos, and when they do it is in the background. However, and as is often the case in politics, it is in those margins of the photo that everything important happens. At 67, Wiles is the top Trump adviservirtually his chief of staff for the past three years.
Wiles has been, all along, key to Trump’s weathering the storm in the face of his court cases and has maintained control of the Republican Party, being for the third consecutive time candidate and, for the second time, president-elect.
Wiles has taken the helm of Trump’s campaign that returned him to the White House
After more than 40 years advising congressmen, senators and governors, Wiles learned to read the strings of power and political information. American: when Trump recruited her for his team in 2016, she had already worked on the campaigns of well-known Republicans such as Jack Kemp, John Delaney, Rick Scott or even that of President Ronald Reagan.
Already in Trump’s first campaign, which would end with the tycoon becoming president, Wiles played a key role in winning the state of Florida and securing the Republican victory. He then moved on to Republican Ron DeSanctis’ team to become governor of the Caribbean state in 2018.
Shortly thereafter, Trump won it back for his team in 2020, and in 2023 entrusted him with the command of a campaign that has ended up returning the former president to the White House.
The adviser will be key in the future Trump administration
Many credit Wiles with the approach of the Trump campaign, much softer on his unfounded accusations of voter fraud in 2020 and geared toward fierce criticism of the Biden administration and the Harris program.
At LinkedIn defines itself as a expert in building relationships, managing crises and “creating order out of chaos”. Those who know her highlight her calm and moderate character, and her ability to handle the changing nature of the political world.a key ability in turning Trump’s course from a troubled exit from the White House to returning to it just four years later.
In his victory speech, Trump shook her hand and invited her to come to the lecternWiles declined. The most important figures in politics are always waiting in the margins of the photo.even a figure, that of Wiles, who is called to play an important key role in the next cabinet White House.