For more than three decades, Bob Bauer and Anita Dunn have climbed to the summit of Washington power. There’s a simple reason for their success, according to allies: they can be trusted to handle difficult tasks competently and with discretion.
For more than three decades, Bob Bauer and Anita Dunn have climbed to the summit of Washington power.
To get a better sense of Dunn's and Bauer’s roles in Biden’s orbit, NBC News spoke with more than a dozen former White House and presidential campaign aides, as well as strategists and former colleagues. Most of these people requested that their names be withheld — some out of a loyalty to the couple, some for fear of retribution and some because they were not authorized to speak publicly by their employers. The White House declined to comment for this story.
That prioritization of legal interests over public relations has come at a short-term political cost and could turn into a long-term liability, several Democrats said. There’s a simple reason for their success, according to allies: They can be trusted to handle difficult tasks competently and with discretion.
It was Dunn who recognized early on in Barack Obama’s first campaign run that Michelle Obama would have a gift with the public but wasn’t getting the kind of publicity she deserved. Dunn called Stephanie Cutter — a longtime Democratic operative who was involved in Biden’s 2020 campaign and said she had worked with Bauer and Dunn for 25 years, dating back to the Daschle days — and encouraged her to take a job with Michelle Obama.
At times, Bauer and Dunn played on either end of consequential moments. Dunn headed the search for the vice presidential candidates, consisting of a cast of some of the highest-profile female politicians in America. At the other end of the search was Bauer, who at times was personally on calls with those candidates or their teams as he led in their legal vetting.
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