I’m the worst at that,” says Karine Jean-Pierre, the newly hired senior advisor to Joe Biden‘s presidential campaign, when I ask her to describe herself.
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Jean-Pierre is known by almost everyone in the political and media Acela train corridor from Washington to New York.
Karine joins the Biden campaign at a point when voter protection is no longer just focused on Southern states but across the nation.
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The moment of course is one where Biden’s campaign was saved by Black voters in South Carolina.
As we finished our interview I asked Karine if there was anything she wanted the audience to know, something that in the end might give people concerned about the future a little hope, the kind of hope she brings to the Biden campaign.