Reince Priebus

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Reinhold Richard "Reince" Priebus ( PREE-b?s; born March 18, 1972) is an American lawyer and politician who served as White House Chief of Staff for President Donald Trump from January 20, 2017, until July 31, 2017.

He also served as the chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC) from 2011 to 2017. Raised in Wisconsin, Priebus graduated from the University of Miami School of Law in 1998.

After working for the law firm Michael Best & Friedrich LLP, Priebus was elected as the chairman of the Wisconsin Republican Party in 2007.

In 2009, he became the general counsel for the Republican National Committee.

He won the 2011 Republican National Committee chairmanship election and took office in January 2011.

As chairman, Priebus was the public face of the party and frequently criticized the policies of President Barack Obama.

He presided over the Republican Party during the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections. Priebus publicly criticized Trump during the early stages of the 2016 Republican presidential primaries, but he later called for party unity.

He opposed efforts to deny Trump the nomination at the 2016 Republican National Convention and supported his presidential campaign in the general election.

Days after Trump won the 2016 presidential election, Trump announced that Priebus would serve as his first Chief of Staff.

On July 28, 2017, President Trump announced that he would make Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly the chief of staff, after Priebus submitted his resignation on July 27.

Priebus had the shortest tenure of any non-interim White House Chief of Staff in American history.

Priebus' last day in the position was July 31 when Kelly was sworn in.

Priebus drew controversy for his management style as chief of staff.

Personal life

In 1999, Priebus married Sally L. Sherrow, whom he met in church when they were teenagers. They have two children. Priebus is an archon of the Greek Orthodox Church.

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Early life and legal career

Priebus was born on March 18, 1972, the son of Dimitra (née Pitsiladis; also known as Roula) and Richard Priebus. He was born in Dover, New Jersey, and lived in Netcong, New Jersey, until his family moved to Green Bay, Wisconsin, when he was seven years old. His father is a former union electrician and his mother is a licensed real estate agent. His father is of German and English descent, and his mother is of Greek descent; she was born in Mytilene and Khartoum at the time; there is a large population of Greek settlers in Sudan at that time.

He ran for his first political run at the age of 16. He attended Tremper High School in Kenosha, Wisconsin, graduating in 1990. He earned his degree from Tremper and went to the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where he studied English and political science, and joined the Delta Chi fraternity. He was voted president of the student body in 1994 and 1994, but before that, he had been lauded.

Priebus served as a clerk for the Wisconsin State Assembly Education Committee after graduating from Whitewater. He then enrolled at the University of Miami School of Law in Coral Gables, Florida. He served as a clerk for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, the Wisconsin Supreme Court, and the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, as well as interned at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in California.

He earned his J.D. in 1998. Since serving as president of the law school student body, a degree from the University of Miami has been lauded by the university. He went back to Wisconsin and became a member of the state bar. He joined Wisconsin law firm Michael Best & Friedrich LLP, where he became a partner in 2006 and practiced in the firm's litigation and corporate practice groups.

Political career

In 2004, Priebus ran for the Wisconsin State Senate, losing 52-48 to Democratic incumbent Robert Wirch. He was elected chairman of the Wisconsin Republican Party in 2007, the youngest person to have held office to date, following a fruitful campaign. He served as the general counsel for the Republican National Committee two years ago, in 2009, two years later.

Priebus, the party's chairman, guided the party to victory in the November 2010 elections in Wisconsin, which had previously been a Democratic state. The party took over the state Senate and Assembly, while a Republican nominee was elected governorship. He attempted to join Wisconsin's Tea Party movement with the mainstream Republican party group in an attempt to avoid conflict between the two groups.

Priebus served as both the general counsel and general counsel to the RNC until 2010, when he resigned as general counsel and sought to run for chairman of the commission.

Priebus resigned as the general counsel for the Republican National Committee on December 5, 2010. (RNC). He sent a letter the next day announcing his candidacy for chairman to all 168 voting members of the RNC. Wisconsin governor Scott Walker endorsed Priebus' campaign from the start, blaming the party's success in Wisconsin to "Priebus' leadership and participation in the nationwide grassroots Tea Party movement that swept the state and the country." In his letter to delegates, Prime Minister Priebus told them: "I will keep expenses low." I'll put in tight and robust controls. To ensure that we are profitable, we will raise the necessary funds. We will continue to work to regain our donor base, and I will personally call our key contributors to ask them to reengage in our RNC efforts.

Priebus was elected chairman of the Republican National Committee in January 11, 2011, following seven rounds of voting.

Priebus inherited a $23 million debt from his predecessor Michael Steele, as well as strained relationships with "large contributors" at the start of his first term as chairman of RNC in January 2011. Priebus stated that his priorities for his leadership were to reduce the debt, restore the organization's finances, and strengthen partnerships with top contributors and party leaders, as well as supporting Republican campaigns in the 2012 presidential election. He wanted to establish a good voter mobilization campaign, including improved voter tracking and absentee ballot services to identify unregistered voters and those that had not returned their ballots, as well as others who had not returned their ballots using funds raised through his initial lobbying to major contributors.

Priebus' fund had raised more than $88 million and reduced the RNC's debt by $11.8 million by the end of 2011.

Priebus, a frequent critic of Obama and Democratic officials, was a frequent critic of both Obama and Democratic leaders in the 2012 presidential election. Priebus appeared on such political talk shows as Meet the Press, Face the Country, Fox News Sunday, and State of the Union with Candy Crowley. He also continued to concentrate on rebuilding the RNC's finances by reaching out to donors in 2012, and at the end of the year, the group reported no debt.

Following Republican loss in the 2012 presidential election, President Priebus urged Republicans to embrace comprehensive immigration reform that would welcome illegal immigrants in the United States' legal status. He also ordered studies of RNC activities, including the party's messages to young people, women, and Hispanics. Multiple volunteers and employees who were involved at various levels of the campaign cycle will be included in the analysis. He began planning a political campaign with a long-term goal to reach demographic groups that had voted predominantly Democratic in the November 2012 elections. The initiative was dubbed "The Growth and Opportunity Project."

Priebus was elected to serve a second term on January 25, 2013. Mark Willis, Maine's National Committeeman, attempted to protest Priebus, but Willis was unable to gain the support of three states and so did not qualify for the election. Priebus continued unopposed, and 166 of the 168 RNC members voted to reelect him (the two dissenters were from Maine).

"The team is changing the party; to be a force from coast to coast," Priebus said in his second term. In his re-election address, he said that the party will no longer approach electoral politics from a "red and blue state" perspective.

The final Growth and Opportunity Project report was released by Priebus and Republican strategists including Ari Fleischer, Henry Barbour, Sally Bradshaw, Zori Fonalledas, and Glenn McCall on March 18, 2013. The study outlined a broad strategy for the company to restructure its operations. The report's recommendations included: expanding the Republican Party's digital and academic capabilities; a $10 million outreach campaign to minorities; and, reducing the length of the presidential primary season.

According to columnist Jennifer Rubin, Priebus was effective in persuading CNN and NBC to cancel proposed biopics of Hillary Clinton, which had been described as "free campaigning on Clinton's behalf." If the films went further, Priebus said that the networks would not be allowed to moderate a Republican primary debate.

Politico revealed in the ensuing year that Priebus had made strides to make the RNC a year-round operation, particularly through investment in digital technology and field staff.

The RNC unveiled the Victory 365 campaign, continuing Priebus's drive to establish an initiative to rival the 2012 Obama campaign's voter mobilization efforts. The initiative aims to reach others in their communities by assisting and encouraging volunteers from around the country.

Priebus also worked to shorten the length of the presidential primary calendar by up to three months, and moved the national convention forward to late June at the earliest. In January 2014, the rules change was almost unanimous.

Priebus led attempts to reach out to black, Latino, and Asian American voters as a result of the Growth and Opportunity Project's report (also called "the autopsy" and "the post-mortem." He spoke at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in July 2014, where he said that the Republican Party was investing approximately $8.5 million per month and had established offices in 15 states to promote these efforts.

Priebus laid out the RNC's "Principles for American Renewal," outlining 11 RNC priorities in the run-up to the 2016 presidential race in a speech on October 2, 2014. Three economic reforms have been included in the legislative agenda: the acceptance of the Keystone XL Pipeline; federal healthcare reform; and a balanced budget amendment to the US constitution. Other objectives included in the principles include job creation, care of veterans, immigration reform, and reducing government spending. Following the address, the Democratic National Committee released a statement condemning Priebus, accusing Republicans of being "out of touch with the American people."

On January 16, 2015, Priebus was re-elected to a third term on a near-unanimous landslide, making him the first chairman to lead the RNC for three terms in a row with a Democratic president in the White House.

The RNC reported on October 30, 2015, after a clash between the Republican candidates and the debate moderators in Boulder, Colorado, where there were clashes between the Republican candidates and the debate moderators, the RNC announced that NBC News will no longer host the debate in Houston on February 26, 2016. Priebus expressed worry that an NBC-hosted debate would result in a "repeat" of the CNBC debate, as both are CNBCUniversal divisions, although NBC News is editorially distinct from CNBC. Priebus explained that CNBC had conducted the debate in "poor faith" on October 28, implying that "real debates are supposed to include difficult questions and compare candidates' plans and policies for the future of America, according to CNBC's moderators, who were petty and mean-spirited in tone and designed to embarrass our candidates. What transpired on Wednesday night was not an effort to give the American people a greater understanding of our candidates' policies and plans."

Whether or not he's the Republican Party's nominee, Priebus requested for party unity on April 22, 2016. Following Donald Trump's assumtion as the Republican nominee in mid-May, Priebus said in mid-May that running a third-party candidate would be akin to a Republican suicide mission.

Following Trump's nomination, he went on to forge a positive relationship with Trump and was actively involved in quashing bids by anti-Trump activists to prevent Trump's nomination. Priebus branded Trump as a role model on October 4, 2016. "I think everybody is a role model in many ways." If you're looking for someone who has built businesses and lost companies, look at this: a man who has set goals, he's a winner."

Priebus denounced then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's plan to temporarily suspend Muslim immigration in reaction to terrorist attacks in December 2015. The Washington Examiner quoted Priebus's words, "I don't agree." Following Trump's tumultuous remarks regarding Mexican illegal immigrants in early 2015, Priebus reportedly delivered a "stern 40-minute lecture" to Trump.

Priebus also blasted Trump in May 2016, saying that he was not the head of the Republican Party and that Trump must "change his tone."

On August 1, 2016, after Trump sluggishly chastised the Gold Star family of Captain Humayun Khan, a Muslim soldier who was killed in Iraq and whose father mocked Trump, Priebus said: "I think this family should be off limits, and we love them, but I can't imagine them being the father of a young child and boy going back to their parents one day in war."

According to a New York magazine article on December 8, 2016, "some Trump strategists are dismayed by Priebus's popularity because they doubt the Washington insider's loyalty to the Washington insider" in early October. Except for two members of the Trump administration, no identified sources were found in this otherwise unsourced publication. Priebus revealed in October that the RNC will continue to support Trump days afterward. Priebus referred to Trump as a "idiot," according to author Michael Wolff's book Fire and Fury.

Trump declared himself a Priebus for the White House Chief of Staff on November 13, 2016. He received the highest White House salaries, beating White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon and White House Director of Strategic Communications Hope Hicks.

Priebus, the White House's chief of staff, had almost absolute authority over who was and was not allowed to enter the Oval Office. According to a person familiar with the situation, after homeland security advisor Tom Bossert arrived at Trump's request, "deputy chief of staff Katie Walsh spotted him entering the Oval Office and sprinted down the hallway to alert her boss, Mr. Priebus." Mr. Priebus then dashed into the office, where he reprimanded Mr. Bossert for attempting to meet with the president without him." The Wall Street Journal announced on February 14, 2017.

Contrary to anonymously sourced reports submitted by The New York Times this week, Priebus said intelligence analysts had assured the Trump campaign of having no contact with Russian spies as part of "fake news" at the White House. According to a Politico report dated March 17, 2017, a Priebus request that the FBI refute charges of contact by Trump associates with Russian intelligence "may have breached the White House's policy prohibiting political interference in pending probes."

White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci tagged Priebus at the end of a (later deleted) Twitter post about such leaks, sparking rumors that Scaramucci held them responsible. On CNN, Priebus announced that he had resigned on July 27, 2017. Donald Trump announced on Twitter the following day that he had named John F. Kelly as the new White House Chief of Staff. On July 31, Kelly took office, bringing an end to Priebus' services. Priebus's tenure as permanent Chief of Staff in history ended, edging out Kenneth Duberstein, Ronald Reagan's last chief of staff. Priebus stayed in the White House "for a few weeks" and helped John Kelly transition into his new position as White House Chief of Staff.

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