Eric Schultz
| Eric Schultz | |
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| White House Deputy Press Secretary | |
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In office June 20, 2014 – January 20, 2017 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Josh Earnest |
| Succeeded by | Sarah Huckabee Sanders |
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| Born | 1980 (age 36–37) Syracuse, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Washington University |
Eric Schultz (born 1980) is currently a senior advisor to President Barack Obama and the founder of Schultz Group. Schultz is a former White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary and special assistant to President Obama. Recognized by Politico as the strategist “White House officials turn to in a crisis to handle communications,” Schultz was originally hired at the White House in 2011 to respond to Congressional oversight investigations. After White House Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest replaced Jay Carney to become White House Press Secretary, Schultz was appointed White House Deputy Press Secretary. In this role, Schultz often diffuses "tensions with humor. But he can be relentless in pushing his message in both public and private conversations.” Former White House Communications Director Jen Psaki compared Schultz to fictional crisis manager Olivia Pope, "he's the person you want next to you in a foxhole when there's a crisis." At the end of President Obama's second term, former White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett said of Schultz, “We’ve all grown to rely on his wise counsel" and that the President "trusts his sound judgement."
Schultz got his start in politics as an opposition researcher and tracker on then-First Lady Hillary Clinton’s 2000 Senate campaign in New York State. In 2004 he steered communications efforts in New Hampshire for John Kerry — a state that Kerry won in both the primary and general elections. Schultz spent several years on Capitol Hill working for a number of U.S. Senators, including now Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) where he raised the Senator’s national profile while maximizing visibility in each of New York’s media markets. When Schultz left, Senator Schumer said, "Eric did an incredible job.”
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