The future press secretary said: 'This is a historic moment and it's not lost on me. I understand how important it is for so many people.' Read the full story here:
Karine Jean-Pierre"will be the first Black woman, the first out LGBTIQ+ person to serve in this role", said Jen Psaki, the outgoing White House press secretary.
The outgoing spokeswoman, bringing Ms Jean-Pierre behind the podium for the traditional briefing of accredited journalists at the White House on Thursday, praised, in a voice sometimes choked with emotion, the qualities of her deputy, whom she hugged several times. Also visibly moved, the future press secretary said: "This is a historic moment and it's not lost on me. I understand how important it is for so many people."
Before her, only one other black woman, Judy Smith, had been deputy White House press secretary, during George HW Bush's presidency in 1991.A long-time adviser to Mr Biden, Ms Jean-Pierre worked on both of former president Barack Obama's campaigns in 2008 and 2012, and then on Mr Biden's campaign in 2020 before joining his team at the White House.Ms Jean-Pierre was previously chief public affairs officer for liberal advocacy group MoveOn.
But she has also written of "the pressure of growing up in an immigrant household to succeed" in a book published in 2019.
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