First on CNN: DNC expanding communications team for 2016

The DNC has hired Holly Shulman, who formerly served as spokeswoman for international affairs at the Treasury Department, as its new national press secretary, per a committee release. She worked as Obama’s New Hampshire press secretary in 2012 and has previously held communications roles in congressional and statewide races in Ohio, Texas and Pennsylvania.

The DNC is also bringing on Michael Tyler, who previously served as Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Michelle Nunn’s press secretary, as its new director of African American media and regional press secretary for the South. It’s hired Sean Bartlett, who was most recently a communications strategist with the UN Foundation, as senior communications adviser for DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

And he said there’s more to come: “This is just the start of an aggressive expansion of our communications team, and I’m excited to kick things into high gear. Game on!”

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