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For many Republicans in Donald Trump’s Washington, Vice President Mike Pence has been the ax behind the glass you’re supposed to break in case of emergency: solid, sharp, and there to save you when the place is going up in flames.   

Now, as the Trump White House has become engulfed in one media firestorm after another, Pence is bringing in a new chief of staff, a veteran political operative who Pence loyalists expect will help him manage one of the thinnest, highest tightropes in Washington—balancing the vice president’s need to be loyal to a president who requires it, while keeping his own brand and capital strong enough to stand on its own.</p>

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The man on the way to fill that role is Nick Ayers, a 34-year-old political consultant who has helped more than a dozen top Republicans in around the country launch, rescue, or cement their political careers, including Mike Pence.

If Ayers’ name is new to casual observers, it isn’t all new to anyone working in Washington. In 2007, Ayers burst onto the scene as the 24-year-old executive director of the Republican Governors Association. But his political break came even earlier, when Ayers, then 19, hit it off with a longshot candidate for Georgia governor named Sonny Perdue. Perdue hired Ayers as his driver, and then won the governor’s mansion a year later. Four years later, Ayers ran Perdue’s successful reelection in 2006 and then went with Perdue to the RGA, when the Georgia governor helmed the committee tasked with electing Republicans to governors’ mansions.</p>

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During Ayers four years at the RGA, success and attention followed. The Washington Post called him “Washington's  youngest important operative.” Some of his fellow young conservatives, like Matt Lewis, called him “the most hated campaign operative in America,” complaining that young Ayers’ track record didn’t warrant the hype.

But after two full cycles with Ayers running daily operations at the RGA, Republicans went from holding 25 governors mansions in 2007 to 32 in 2011. Among the pick-ups were Scott Walker in Wisconsin, John Kasich in Ohio, Rick Scott in Florida, and Rick Snyder in Michigan. It was also the period when Nikki Haley won her first term in South Carolina and Chris Christie pulled off an upset in New Jersey.</p>

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“It’s  hard to overstate how dramatic it was that he was in this position at that age,” said Nathan Daschle, a Democratic lobbyist who was the executive director of the Democratic Governors Association when Ayers ran the RGA, when the two became rivals and friends.   

“In Nick, Mike Pence will get a very savvy and aggressive political mind,” Daschle said. “He’ll also get intense loyalty.  He won’t have to worry about Nick and that he’s got 100 percent loyalty out of his top person.”</p>

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With the successful run at the RGA under his belt, Ayers left Washington and became a campaign consultant and media buyer. His highest-profile race was also his biggest bomb—Tim Pawlenty’s spectacular presidential flameout, which ended abruptly five months after it began. Although Pawlenty initially said he dropped out because he lost the 2011 Iowa straw poll to then-Rep. Michele Bachmann (and even Rep. Rand Paul), the Pawlenty campaign was essentially broke—with $450,000 in debt still on the books two months after he dropped out.

A series of lower-profile Senate and governor's races put Ayers on a winning streak—running outside PACs or advising campaign operations for Sens. Ted Cruz in Texas, David Perdue in Georgia, Tom Cotton in Arkansas, Gov. Bruce Rauner in Illinois, Gov. Eric Greitens in Missouri, and, importantly, the 2016 reelection effort for Gov. Mike Pence in Indiana.

Pence had met Ayers while he was at the RGA and signed him up for his 2016 bid, but Ayers started early after a 2015 religious-freedom bill in Indiana both ignited controversy in the state and took Pence from a 62 percent approval rating to a number in the mid-40s.  </p>

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“When Gov. Pence was looking for outside consulting help, his team talked extensively with Nick,” said Bob Grand, a longtime Pence adviser and Indianapolis lawyer. “All of us were very impressed, at a young age he has great insight. And I think the governor, now vice president, was very comfortable with his style and his advice.”</p>

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Ayers was already working for Pence when the call came to assess the governor’s interest in joining Donald Trump as his running mate.  

“Nick was intimately involved in that process,” said Grand. “A lot of things changed for all of us in a fairly quick period of time and Nick ended up very quickly in a very good role for the vice president.”  

That role, initially, was as an outside adviser and sounding board for Pence and a board member of the super PAC supporting the Trump administration's agenda, including an attack ad against GOP Sen. Dean Heller over his refusal to negotiate to support the GOP health-care bill.  

“He came back to the table,” a Republican operative observed of the ad, which GOP senators groused about.

Ayers also recently helped Pence launch his own leadership PAC and has been helping Pence host dinners for major donors at the vice president’s residence.

And although he seriously considered a run for governor of Georgia himself, according to The Atlanta-Journal-Constitution, Ayers’ role with Pence continued to grow as the scrutiny on all members of the Trump administration ratcheted up.    

While Pence has remained mostly on the sidelines of the Russia investigation, he has twice insisted in media interviews that no Trump associates ever met with Russians during the 2016 campaign for president.   

“All the contact by the Trump campaign and associates were with the American people,” Pence wrongly told Fox News’ Chris Wallace. Pence was also at the center of dismissal of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, after Pence defended Flynn publicly as having no Russian ties, only to learn weeks later that that, too, was false.

Paul Bennecke, the executive director of the RGA, said having Ayers on the inside of his vice-presidential operation should help both Pence and Trump by having someone on point to execute on their agenda.  

“I think it’s a great asset to the president and the vice president to have someone who can figure out what the big objectives are, but more importantly, figure out what they can control and achieve, so that those objectives become reality.”

Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, who was the RGA chairman during much of Ayer’s time there, said Ayers will also be an important point of contact inside Pence’s operation for the governors and senators he’s worked with before.

“Obviously a lot of people will find Nick to be someone they’re comfortable going to share their views.”

Going forward, veterans of past White Houses that were similarly under the microscope said Pence’s toughest, and most important, job might just be staying focused on his actual job and staying out of the West Wing intrigue as much as possible. And that’s where the chief of staff comes in.

David Thomas, an aide to then-Vice President Al Gore at the height of the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, said Gore’s chief of staff directed the staff daily to “do your job” and say and do nothing related to the impeachment.

“It’s hard enough to work for a White House in crisis,” Thomas said. “But if the White House also has internal battles, you won’t get through it.” Thomas also said the best play for Pence and his team at this point is to keep their heads down and themselves out of the spotlight.

Ayers, who will start officially at the end of the month, declined to be interviewed for this article.<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style=" background-color: #ffffff;"></span></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On December 14, there was a meeting to discuss the outside group in a glass-walled conference room on the 14th floor of Trump Tower<b>. Brad Parscale</b> sat at the head of the table. Around him were roughly 12 people, including Rebekah; Kellyanne Conway; David Bossie; Michael Cohen, Trump’s lawyer; Jason Miller, then Trump’s senior communications adviser; and Marc Short, Mike Pence’s senior adviser. </span>Parscale was known to be livid that Alexander Nix had gone on a PR blitz after the election, exaggerating CA’s role. Even worse, Parscale had heard that Nix had been telling people, “Brad screwed up. We had to rescue Brad.” (Nix denied this, saying, “Brad did a brilliant job.”)</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And so when Rebekah pushed for CA to run the new group’s data operation, Parscale pushed back. “No offense to the Mercers,” he said, according to multiple attendees. “First, this group is about Trump, not about the Mercers. Second, I don’t have a problem with hiring Cambridge, but Cambridge can’t be the center of everything, because that’s not how the campaign ran.” (He did, however, suggest that Rebekah be on the board.) “No offense taken,” Rebekah replied.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But she would subsequently complain about the exchange to Bannon and others, and continued to lobby for CA to be at the center of the new organization. The situation became so testy that before the inauguration, Jared Kushner brought in<b> Steve Hantler, </b>Rebekah’s friend, to referee. Hantler, a quiet, gentlemanly sort, proposed that the venture be led by someone he knew would be acceptable to both sides: <b>Nick Ayers,</b> a senior adviser to Pence. The “outside group” is now named America First Policies. Parscale is a member, and its first national TV ads have appeared. Ayers has also been cultivating a friendship with Donald Trump Jr., who, sources say, may eventually want to lead the group himself.</font>

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The presumptive Republican nominee’s campaign said late Saturday that campaign wunderkind and Cobb County native Nick Ayers would serve as Indiana Gov. Mike Pence’s senior adviser.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ayers had a hand in several big Georgia races involving the Perdue family. (His wife is Sonny’s second cousin.) He helped Sonny with his gubernatorial victories and also aided boost the Senate bid of David as an adviser to the PAC Citizens for Working America.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Also listed as an adviser to Pence is Kellyanne Conway, a pollster who was a close adviser to Newt Gingrich during his 2012 White House run.</font></p>

<p style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Pence aides will be charged with organizing the day-to-day operations for the running mate and coordinating with Trump’s campaign.</font>

<p style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; line-height: 23px; padding: 16px 0px 12px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>ne of Vice President Mike Pence’s top political advisers is a major investor in the <i style=" box-sizing: inherit;">Independent Journal Review,</i> </b>a social media-minded news outlet geared toward young conservatives.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Nick Ayers, Pence’s top strategist outside of the White House, confirmed to BuzzFeed News that he owns part of <i style=" box-sizing: inherit;">IJR</i>. He is also playing a major role in America First Priorities, a political group launched by Trump campaign advisers to trumpet the president’s message.</span><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> He joined Trump’s campaign when Pence was tapped as the vice presidential nominee and later acted as a senior advisor for the vice president-elect during the transition. Ayers previously worked as a political consultant and as campaign manager for former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s presidential bid in 2012.</span></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>There’s no indication that Ayers was involved in this week’s controversial State Department decision to grant the sole press spot on Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s trip to Asia to <i style=" box-sizing: inherit;">IJR’s</i> </b>White House correspondent. The move, a break from tradition, has enraged the State Department press corps as <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/world/asia/rex-tillerson-north-korea-nuclear.html" style=" box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;">Tillerson makes big diplomatic news</a> without a traditional pooler tagging along.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ayers’ investment in <i style=" box-sizing: inherit;">IJR</i> is another example of close ties between Trump’s orbit and a favored media outlet. Steve Bannon, the president’s top strategist, ran <i style=" box-sizing: inherit;">Breitbart News</i> for years and has brought with him to the administration a handful of ex-<i style=" box-sizing: inherit;">Breitbart</i> staffers. The company has said that it <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/stevenperlberg/breitbart-is-a-player-in-this-paul-ryan-white-house-drama?utm_term=.iwGYWDRJzV#.kuDQGdq6gw" style=" box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;">no longer has financial and editorial ties to Bannon</a>. Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner transferred his ownership of <i style=" box-sizing: inherit;">The New York Observer</i> <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/09/media/jared-kushner-new-york-observer/" style=" box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;">to a family trust</a>.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There’s no sign that Ayers has had any editorial involvement with his investment, and a person involved in the company noted that <i style=" box-sizing: inherit;">IJR</i> notably didn’t benefit from insider leaks during the campaign.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The revelation of Ayers’s investment comes as a series of recent <i style=" box-sizing: inherit;">IJR</i> stories attracted wider attention. An <i style=" box-sizing: inherit;">IJR</i> reporter had <a href="http://ijr.com/2017/02/810965-trump-ditched-the-press-to-have-dinner-heres-how-the-president-acts-when-no-one-is-watching/" style=" box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration: none;">dinner near the president</a> at DC’s Trump Hotel based on a tip from a source. The site <a href="http://ijr.com/2017/01/790802-exclusive-president-trumps-supreme-court-pick-confirmed/" style=" box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration: none;">scooped the national media when it first reported</a> that Neil Gorsuch would be Trump’s Supreme Court nominee.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i style=" box-sizing: inherit;">IJR</i> also faced criticism for <a href="https://cdn1.ijr.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/FmrPresidentObamaMadeSurpriseVisittoHawaiiDaysBeforeJudgeIssuedTravelBanRuling-2.pdf" style=" box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;">a story</a> posted Thursday spreading a conspiracy theory that Barack Obama made a “surprise visit” to Hawaii to sway a judge there to block Trump’s revised travel ban executive order. <i style=" box-sizing: inherit;">IJR</i> later retracted the article and posted an editor’s note apologizing. The publication’s congressional reporter resigned Thursday <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2017/03/independent-journal-review-joe-perticone-reporter-resigns-236147" style=" box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;">over disagreements with <i style=" box-sizing: inherit;">IJR’s</i> direction</a>.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><i style=" box-sizing: inherit;">IJR</i> was founded in 2012 by Alex Skatell, who previously met Ayers when he worked in Republican politics, and Phil Musser, a former executive director of the Republican Governors Association.</b></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The site has found success in fashioning viral right-leaning web content geared for heartland news consumers, like funny GOP candidate videos (Sen. Ted Cruz <a href="http://ijr.com/2015/08/383020-making-machine-gun-bacon-with-ted-cruz/" style=" box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration: none;">fired a gun wrapped in bacon</a>, for instance). <i style=" box-sizing: inherit;">IJR</i> has also sought to ramp up its reporting chops, hiring journalists from mainstream outlets and co-sponsoring a GOP debate with ABC</span><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This week, <i style=" box-sizing: inherit;">IJR’s</i> reporting push came at the expense other political news outlets. <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/stevenperlberg/ijr-lands-the-only-press-spot-on-tillersons-plane-to-asia" style=" box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;">BuzzFeed News first reported</a> that Erin McPike, <i style=" box-sizing: inherit;">IJR’s</i> White House correspondent, was the sole journalist selected for a spot on Tillerson’s trip. “We don’t take this opportunity lightly and recognize the controversy surrounding press access for the trip,” Skatell said in a statement at the time.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">McPike’s selection became the subject of a heated State Department press briefing on Wednesday. “Can you explain why, once a seat was identified on that plane that was available, the decision was made rather than to allow the press to send a pooler who would share information and actually allow us to work around not being there personally, the decision instead was made to handpick a conservative outlet to accompany the secretary and not to share that information?” one reporter asked State Department spokesperson Mark Toner, <a href="https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2017/03/268457.htm" style=" box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;">according to a transcript</a>.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“In this specific trip and instance, it was decided to take – to make an outside-the-box, if I could put it that way, decision to bring somebody in who doesn’t necessarily cover the State Department, a media outlet that isn’t steeped in foreign policy and give it a new, fresh perspective,” Toner said.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Friday, reporters complained on Twitter that McPike had not filed a piece yet, even though Tillerson made newsmaking comments about North Korea and <a href="https://twitter.com/GlennKesslerWP/status/842700142692241408" style=" box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;">decided cut his trip to South Korea short</a>. “While external advice is noted, I’m working on a longer piece per explicit instructions from my supervisor, and I always have been,” McPike <a href="https://twitter.com/ErinMcPike/status/842761737539653637" style=" box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;">tweeted</a>. Skatell <a href="https://twitter.com/AlexSkatell/status/842766578307551232" style=" box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;">tweeted</a> that he is to be blamed for McPike’s silence: “View is a series of tweets not best medium to convey a long form piece.”</font></p>

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