A top adviser to Donald Trump said he lost in 2020 because he had too many non-locals running campaign operations in states they didn’t fully understand.
That analysis came from Susie Wiles during a Mar-a-Lago sit-down with Trump in 2021, reported Vanity Fair, which published an excerpt of Trump in Exile by Meridith McGraw on Monday.
Fast forward three years and Wiles, formerly the head of Trump’s Florida operation, is now a senior adviser on his current campaign. She’s been photographed behind Trump on his jet, on stage in Iowa, and working on the ground in New Hampshire. Wiles’ promotion may be partly credited to her blunt insight into what went wrong in 2020.
