The political operative who managed Bruce Rauner’s campaign for Illinois governor will become the campaign manager for Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul’s presidential bid.
Chip Englander, currently a senior adviser during Rauner’s move into the governor’s office, would not discuss the move on the record with the Tribune on Tuesday. But Englander provided an interview with The Washington Post in which he lauded Paul’s campaign skills.
Englander gained political capital nationally with the election of Rauner, a Republican, in President Barack Obama’s traditionally blue home state.
Paul told the Post that Englander’s “management of Gov. Rauner’s successful race last year highlights his strengths: precise and strategic management of massive, grassroots-driven operations.”
Englander, 33, is expected to run the day-to-day operations of the Paul campaign. In 2010, he was campaign manager for former U.S. Rep. Mark Newmann’s unsuccessful bid for Wisconsin’s GOP nomination for governor against Gov. Scott Walker — whom Rauner calls a role model.
