Who is Trump’s ‘ice maiden’ Susie Wiles?published at 22:45 Greenwich Mean Time 7 November
As we just reported, Susie
Wiles, a senior adviser to the Trump
campaign in this election cycle, has landed a key role in the administration.
Trump referred to Wiles as “the ice maiden” in his victory
speech yesterday. She operates mostly “in the back”, the president-elect said,
but she is known as one of the most feared political operatives in the US.
Less than a year after she started working in politics, she joined Ronald
Reagan’s campaign ahead of his 1980 election.
In 2010, she turned Rick Scott, a then-businessman with little
political experience, into Florida’s governor in just seven months.
Scott is now a US senator.
Wiles met Trump during the 2015 Republican presidential
primary and became the co-chair of his Florida campaign. He went on to carry the state by
1.6% over Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Florida Gov Ron DeSantis, who put her in charge of his successful
gubernatorial race two years later, described Wiles as “the best in the
business”.
She will be the first woman to serve in the White House role, according to the Trump campaign.
As we reported earlier, Wiles was rumoured to become Trump’s chief of staff.