华盛顿-华盛顿(美联社)——两位知情人士周日表示，预计乔·拜登总统将聘请白宫高级顾问朱莉·罗德里格斯来管理他的连任竞选活动。
这些人不愿透露姓名，因为罗德里格斯的任命尚未最终确定，拜登也尚未正式启动他的连任竞选。哥伦比亚广播公司新闻率先报道拜登决定选择罗德里格斯。
罗德里格斯是民主党的长期活动家，也曾在前总统奥巴马的白宫工作。她是劳工领袖凯萨·查维斯和劳工活动家海伦·法贝拉·查韦斯的孙女。
她在加州长大，积极参加各种活动、纠察线、抵制活动、游行和工会会议。
自拜登开始担任总统以来，她一直担任拜登的白宫政府间事务办公室主任，并于去年6月增加了高级顾问一职。
罗德里格斯与副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯也有很深的关系。她曾在哈里斯的参议院工作人员和哈里斯的2020年总统竞选中担任国家政治主任和旅行参谋长。她后来被拜登的2020年总统竞选活动聘为副竞选经理和拉丁裔外联高级顾问。
据了解讨论情况的三位人士透露，预计拜登最早将于本周正式宣布他的2024年连任竞选。
这些人在匿名的情况下讨论了内部审议，他们说，他们不知道关于时间的最终决定已经做出，但拜登一直在关注4月25日星期二，这是民主党进入2020年竞选的四年。即将到来的声明预计将以视频的形式发布给支持者。
80岁的拜登一再表示，他打算竞选第二个任期，但顾问们表示，他觉得没有必要投入竞选，因为他在党内提名方面没有遇到重大阻力。
Biden expected to tap Julie Rodriguez to run 2024 campaign
WASHINGTON --WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is expected to tap Julie Rodriguez, a senior White House adviser, to manage his reelection campaign, two people familiar with deliberations on the matter said Sunday.
The people spoke on condition of anonymity because Rodriguez's appointment has not been finalized and Biden has yet to formally launch his reelection campaign. CBS News was first to report that Biden has decided to pick Rodriguez.
Rodriguez, a longtime Democratic party activist, also worked in former President Barack Obama's White House. She's the granddaughter of labor leader Cesar Chavez and labor activist Helen Fabela Chávez.
Growing up in California she was active in campaigns, picket lines, boycotts, marches and union meetings.
She has served as Biden's director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs since the beginning of his presidency and added the senior adviser role last June.
Rodriguez also has deep ties to Vice President Kamala Harris. She served on Harris' Senate staff and on Harris' 2020 presidential campaign as national political director and traveling chief of staff. She went on to be hired by Biden's 2020 presidential campaign as a deputy campaign manager and senior adviser for Latino outreach.
Biden is expected to formally announce his 2024 reelection campaign as soon as this week, according to three people briefed on the discussions.
The people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, said they were not aware that a final decision on timing had been made, but that Biden had been eyeing Tuesday, April 25, four years to the day since the Democrat entered the 2020 race. The upcoming announcement is expected to be in the form of a video released to supporters.
Biden, 80, has repeatedly said he intends to run for a second term but advisers say he has felt little need to jump into campaigning because he faces no significant opposition to his party’s nomination.
