The former White House communications director will be based in D.C.
White House communications director Kate Bedingfield will leave her role at the end of the month, the administration announced Friday. Bedingfield, a longtime Biden aide dating back to his time as vice president, will be replaced by Ben LaBolt, who served as an Obama White House press official and most recently joined the Biden administration on a temporary basis to assist with communications around the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield is leaving the White House later this month. (For fans of West Wing, Bedingfield was President Joe Biden’s Toby Ziegler). The reason the administration gave for her departure was that she wanted to spend more time with her husband and children after three years in the challenging post and even more in previous roles.
Biden campaign communications director Kate Bedingfield will serve as Biden’s White House communications director. Jen Psaki, a longtime Democratic spokeswoman, will be his press secretary.
President-elect Joe Biden’s return to “normalcy” will include restoring the daily press briefing — and at least two women are under consideration to lead the new post-Trump show, according to people familiar with the deliberations. Kate Bedingfield is seen as having the inside track to become either White House communications director or press secretary. Symone Sanders could be offered the role of incoming press secretary, or slot into another position before winding up “at the podium” down the line, Biden aides and other people in and around the transition say.
