The White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) failed to see President Eugene Daniels, a staff member of the founding media outlet Politico, seeking employment last year in the presidential election for former Vice President Kamala Harris. Daniels denied these claims for the sake of the record.
Sources familiar with the matter said to Breitbart News that Daniels, Politico White House correspondent and “Chief Playbook correspondent” of the media outlet's highly influential daily newsletter, said last year. He said he had been sitting in at least two interviews with Harris' presidential campaign. According to these sources, it is unclear which position Daniels was looking for in the Harris campaign, but sources familiar with the matter said that after two interviews, Harris himself gave him a message to senior campaign staff. After telling him not to hire, the Harris campaign told Breitbart News that it had darkened him.
Daniels deny what these sources say for the sake of the record. “It's absolutely not true,” Daniels told Breitbart News earlier this month, when Breitbart News first asked, via X's Direct Message, a platform previously known as Twitter. “I've never met anyone about my work and I'll never meet them.”
I first asked about this, and after Daniels denied it at the beginning of February, Breitbart News did not publish the story at the time, continuing to dig deeper into it, asking for more sources. Those who spoke to Breitbart News won't defend Daniels on record, including competing outlets, where many White House correspondents do. Nor does political staff on either side of the aisle who spoke to Breitbart News defend him with the record. The current White House has often standout relationships with Daniels with WHCA and most founding media, but former White House officials who worked in the previous administration have come to Breitbart News with Daniels working with him He said he found joy.
“Eugene Daniels is a joy to work with, and whenever we needed to write a story, he would have come,” a former White House official told Breitbart News.
The entire story began a new life on Tuesday after the White House announced that it would no longer make decisions about pool access to the president's pool pool coverage. The WHCA regularly uses access to the pool to control which outlets access the president and which outlets are not available, denies many outlets including Breitbart News, covering presidential news and questioning I denied the opportunity to do so. So when the White House made the announcement, a statement from WHCA's Flippant Reaction – Daniels defeated the move, presenting the WHCA as a kind of journalistic free press.
Daniels said the White House move was “tears at the independence of the free press,” but the WHCA's long history of denying legitimate news access to the White House and its president, including during his tenure as WHCA president. He does not defend the
Then, shortly after this statement, news was broken that Daniels had abandoned Politico for a weekend show on the obvious partisan MSNBC cable channel. It is very rare for the WHCA head to be at the exit as partisans like MSNBC.
In response to the news, the president's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. He went on record to call Daniels “Kamala Harris' Comms Director” in a social media post.
This is a record that Trump Jr. fueled more on the original story that Daniels had previously rejected Breitbart News, and Breitbart News approached him again on Tuesday evening, and he was I checked whether it supports the original denial and whether there is anything else to add. Daniels has not commented further on the record on the matter. He also asked if he would meet the rest of his term as WHCA President when asked by Breitbart News, and he was asked if he would fulfill the remainder of his term as WHCA President, and he was asked by the very partisan network MSNBC. and, considering he abandons his role in politics, he hasn't answered. Daniels' continued as WHCA president could make the remainder of facility media and WHCA members a serious concern as the Trump White House is likely to continue escalating issues in business media and WHCA from this point onwards. there is.
“Eugene is one of the few people who can get new jobs on the same day as destroying the centuries-old renowned legacy of the White House Correspondent Association,” retaliation from Daniels told Breitbart News. “But after seeing what was clearly written on the walls of Politico, he decided to cash out his Kamala Chit as a golden parachute from a particular fire.”
Daniels took over as WHCA's president on July 15, 2024. A few days after trying to assassinate President Donald Trump of Butler, Pennsylvania, he wrote in a lengthy letter to WHCA members the day he began in position. “When WHCA members such as Doug Mills, Evan Vucci, Anna Moneymaker and Jabin Botsford ran towards the assassination attempt of the former president and current presidential candidates who document the moment for the people of America and history, they were We represented our best,” Daniels wrote.
In the letter, he wrote about how he supported a lot of press access on the whole.
“Today, I am honored to take over as president of our association and serve with Weisia Jean, Justin Sink, Sarah Cook, Andrew Harnik, Jackie Heinrich, Courtney Subramanian and Karen Travers. I think so,” Daniels wrote in the letter. “First of all, on behalf of all boards and associations, I would like to greatly thank Kelly O'Donnell, the tireless, resigned president, who has left her legacy in both measurable and intangible ways, and others. Unlike anything, we continue to promote broader press access and public accountability throughout the political year and election cycle. We all, especially for her service, leadership and friendship. Thank you Kelly, I've just finished the first meeting of this new semester. I wanted to share with you some comments summarizing how I feel and see our work over the next year. We are in danger for our country and occupation. We'll start a new term for: the importance of what we're doing is more obvious than ever, or feel more urgent, and access to reliable and timely information we provide It was not even more necessary. In this moment, it seems worthwhile to remind us of the WHCA mission. We are held by the founders of our country and the first They share the beliefs enshrined in the amendment. Independent news media is essential for the health of the Republic. The White House Correspondents Association promotes excellence in journalism and journalism education, and the robustness of the president and presidency. It exists to ensure news coverage.
But then, Daniels was soon sought new jobs, sources say. Less than a week after Daniels sent the letter, President Joe Biden dropped out of his reelection campaign after an Akistomal debate performance with Trump in late June. On July 21, 2024, Harris took part in the presidency race and soon became the presumptive Democratic candidate for the president. Again, Daniels has denied that, but sources familiar with the matter say Daniels has failed to work in Harris' campaign.
