Yet another top aide to Vice President Kamala Harris is jumping ship. As Harris struggles with low approval ratings and rumors of a stalemate with the President, now Symone Sanders, a senior adviser to Harris announced she will be leaving the White House at the end of the year.
Fox News reports:
“Symone has served honorably for 3 years,” a White House official told Fox News. “First as a valuable member of the President‘s 2020 presidential campaign, then as a member of his transition team and now deputy assistant to the President and senior advisor/chief spokesperson to the Vice President.”
The White House official also told Fox News that President Biden and Harris “are grateful for Symone’s service and advocacy” and said she “will be missed.”
Sanders, who moved to Washington, D.C. in 2014, was hired by progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., as the national press secretary for his 2016 presidential campaign.
Formerly, Sanders served as the chair of the Coalition for Juvenile Justice Emerging Leaders Committee and as a member of the Federal Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice as she advocated for social and racial justice and highlighted economic inequality.
Sanders’s resignation comes only two weeks after the Vice President’s Communications Director Ashley Etienne quit.