Potomac Flacks: Wilcox Named RNC Director of Rapid Response

March 06, 2014

Wilcox Named RNC Director of Rapid Response

Roll Call’s “Shop Talk” column exclusively reports that Jahan Wilcox is the new Director of Rapid Response for the Republican National Committee.

According to an RNC statement, his portfolio will include the 2014 midterms and using RNC ‘research to frame the 2016 presidential debate.’

Wilcox has previously worked for the gubernatorial campaign of Ken Cuccinelli (R-VA), the National Republican Senatorial Committee and for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in the Senate Republican Communications Center.

Wilcox is returning to the RNC, where he previously served under then-Communications Director Brian Jones and then-Deputy Communications Director Danny Diaz.

Wilcox is a native of Minnesota. (Roll Call)

Posted by Matt Mackowiak on March 6, 2014 in Party Committees , People | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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