Ex-Obama Aide Dan Pfeiffer Joins CNN as Contributor

CNN announced Monday morning that Dan Pfeiffer, former top aide to President Barack Obama, will join the cable news network as a political contributor.

From CNN’s release on the 39-year-old new hire:

His first presidential campaign role came in a communications post for then-Vice President Al Gore’s unsuccessful 2000 campaign. He then worked for the Democratic Governors Association and later Sens. Tim Johnson, Tom Daschle and then Evan Bayh’s brief 2008 presidential campaign.

He left his post as the White House’s senior adviser for strategy and communications in March as one of Obama’s longest-tenured strategists.

His role with Obama started in 2007, when Pete Rouse — who hired Pfeiffer in former Sen. Tom Daschle’s office — recruited him to join Obama’s presidential campaign.

[Image via White House/Flickr]

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