Angelique Cannon-Harris, who is currently Hillary Clinton’s deputy national finance director for the mid-Atlantic region, will soon move into the DNC’s offices on Capitol Hill. | Getty DNC taps Clinton fundraiser to be new finance director

The Democratic National Committee has picked a new interim finance director: a Hillary Clinton fundraiser who’s going to keep doing her job for the campaign, just out of a new office.

Angelique Cannon-Harris, who is currently Clinton’s deputy national finance director for the mid-Atlantic region, will soon move into the DNC’s offices on Capitol Hill, “but her main job is to be mid-Atlantic finance director,” Clinton finance director Dennis Cheng told DNC staff on a Saturday afternoon conference call during which new DNC executive director Brandon Davis announced the pick.


The move marks yet another subsuming of the DNC to the Clinton campaign, with its finance operation for the entire party being put under the responsibility of an aide who reports back to Brooklyn first.

A DNC official confirmed the call, calling it “another step since the Convention to seamlessly integrate our respective operations in order to help elect Hillary Clinton and Democrats up and down the ballot.”

Cannon-Harris, who was the finance director for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee during the 2013-14 cycle, was one of the first big fundraiser hires for Clinton, coming on board a year and a half ago. She joined the call Saturday as well, expressing her excitement to be coming on board in the new position.

Most DNC staffers expect major changes to come post-election day, and that few people in top positions will be in their jobs after November. Interim chair Donna Brazile is simultaneously managing both the process for the next two-and-a-half months and laying the groundwork for what will follow

Cannon-Harris replaces Jordan Kaplan, who left last week in the continuing fallout from the WikiLeaks dump that ended Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s time as chair and forced three other aides out. Kaplan is still consulting for the DNC, serving as a liaison to arrange all fundraising events by President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama.