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'''Howard Daniel Pfeiffer'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legistorm.com/person/bio/2065/Howard_Daniel_Pfeiffer.html|title=Biography: Howard Daniel Pfeiffer|publisher=LegiStorm|access-date=January 27, 2014}} {{subscription required}}</ref> (born December 24, 1975) is an American political advisor, author, and podcast host. He was the [[Senior Advisor to the President of the United States|senior advisor]] to U.S. President]] [[Barack Obama]] for strategy and communications from 2013 to 2015.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/1209/changing_the_guard_4a6bdf86-36a9-427a-8442-e5451c453a75.html|title=Pfeiffer takes over for Dunn|website=[[Politico]] |access-date=December 3, 2009}}</ref>

Pfeiffer was a long-time aide to Obama, serving in various press and communications roles on the [[Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign]], on histhe [[Presidentialpresidential transition of Barack Obama|presidential transition team]], and in the [[White House Office]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/22/transition.wrap/index.html|title=Obama picks his communications team - CNN.com|website=www.cnn.com|access-date=December 18, 2018}}</ref> He co-hosts ''[[Pod Save America]]'', a political podcast, with [[Jon Favreau (speechwriter)|Jon Favreau]], [[Jon Lovett]], and [[Tommy Vietor]].<ref>{{cite news|last1last=Rutenberg|first1first=Jim |title=Opposition and a Shave: Former Obama Aides Counter Trump|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/20/business/media/rutenberg-trump-opposition-pod-save-america.html?_r=0|access-date=March 29, 2017|work=The New York Times|date=March 21, 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Pod Save America|url=https://getcrookedmedia.com/here-have-a-podcast-78ee56b5a323|website=Crooked Media|access-date=March 29, 2017|date=January 9, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170627160055/https://getcrookedmedia.com/here-have-a-podcast-78ee56b5a323|archive-date=June 27, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2015, Pfeiffer joined [[CNN]] as a political contributor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/01/politics/dan-pfeiffer-cnn-obama-administration|title=Dan Pfeiffer joins CNN as contributor|work=CNN Politics|author=Eric Bradner|date=June 1, 2015|access-date=May 10, 2017}}</ref> Pfeiffer has also authored three books.

Pfeiffer was born in [[Wilmington, Delaware]],<ref name="usnews">{{cite news| url=http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/p/daniel_h_pfeiffer/index.html|title=Times Topics, People|access-date=October 24, 2009|work=[[The New York Times]]|first=Jim|last=Rutenberg}}</ref> the son of Vivian Lear (née Strange), a learning specialist, and Gary Malick Pfeiffer, a financial officer for [[DuPont (1802–2017)|DuPont]].<ref name=marref1>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/16/fashion/weddings/16feinberg.html?_r=3|work=[[The New York Times]]|title=Sarah Feinberg, H. Daniel Pfeiffer|date=July 16, 2006|access-date=April 30, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zecLAQAAMAAJ&q=%22PFEIFFER.+GARY+%D0%9C%D1%87+textiles+executive;%22|title=Who's who in Finance and Industry|work=Marquis Who's Who, LLC|isbn=9780837903347|access-date=September 19, 2015|last1=Who|first1=Marquis Who's|date=May 1999|publisher=Marquis Who's Who. }}</ref> He graduated from [[Wilmington Friends School]] and earned a Bachelorbachelor of Arts degree from [[Georgetown University]].<ref>{{Cite newsmagazine|url=http://content.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1938375,00.html|title=Dan Pfeiffer: The Next White House Communications Boss|last=James|first=Randy|date=November 13, 2009|workmagazine=Time|access-date=December 18, 2018|language=en-US|issn=0040-781X}}</ref>

Pfeiffer began his career in politics working as a spokesman for the [[Community Oriented Policing Services]] during of the [[presidency of Bill Clinton|Clinton administration]]. In 2000, he joined the communications team of the [[Al Gore 2000 presidential campaign]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2015/06/01/politics/dan-pfeiffer-cnn-obama-administration/index.html|title=Dan Pfeiffer joins CNN as contributor|last=Bradner|first=Eric|date=June 1, 2015|website=CNN politics|access-date=December 18, 2018}}</ref>

After the [[2008 United States presidential election|2008 presidential election]], Pfeiffer ran the communications office for the Obama–Biden Transition team and was then appointed deputy White House communications director after the [[Firstfirst inauguration of Barack Obama|inauguration]]. Less than a year later, after the departure of [[Anita Dunn]], Pfeiffer was named [[White House Communications Director|White House communications director]]. He remained in the role for the entire first term of the [[Obama presidency]].<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://content.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1938375,00.html|title=Dan Pfeiffer: The Next White House Communications Boss|date=November 13, 2009|access-date=April 1, 2015|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]}}</ref> At the start of President Obama's second term, Pfeiffer was promoted to senior advisor for strategy and communications, taking over most of the portfolio previously managed in the [[White House Office|White House]] by [[David Axelrod (political consultant)|David Axelrod]] and [[David Plouffe]]. He left the White House on March 6, 2015.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.delawareonline.com/story/entertainment/2016/08/18/delawares-dan-pfeiffer-white-house-podcaster/88753410/|title=Delaware's Dan Pfeiffer: From White House to podcaster|date=August 16, 2016|access-date=June 7, 2017|newspaper=[[The News Journal]]}}</ref>

Pfeiffer is the author of a #No. 1 [[The New York Times Best Seller list|The ''New York Times'' Best Seller]], ''Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump'' (2018). In his first book, Pfeiffer tells the story of "how Barack Obama navigated the insane political forces that created [President] Trump, explaining why everyone got 2016 wrong, and offering a path for where Democrats go from here."<ref>{{Cite web|title=Yes We (Still) Can|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36342140-yes-we-still-can|website=Goodreads|access-date=February 17, 2020}}</ref>

In February 2020, Pfeiffer's published his secondthird book, ''Un-TrumpingBattling Americathe Big Lie: AHow PlanFox, toFacebook, Makeand Americathe aMAGA DemocracyMedia Again.Are Destroying America'' Inwas it,published Pfeifferin outlinesJune how2022. [[DonaldIt Trump]]explores becamethe president becauserole of thedisinformation current state ofin American politics, notand inthe spite ofimpact it. Hehad alsoon offerselections ain plan2016 for Democrats to win theand 2020, electionas andwell howas topresents preventstrategies the likes of Trump from ever happening againfor byfighting fixingback ouragainst democracydisinformation.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Un-TrumpingBattling the Big Lie: How Fox, Facebook, and the MAGA Media Are Destroying America|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5120372760640053-unbattling-trumpingthe-big-americalie|website=Goodreads|access-date=FebruaryJanuary 172, 20202023}}</ref>

On July 16, 2006, Pfeiffer married [[Sarah Feinberg|Sarah Elizabeth Feinberg]], a senior adviser and spokeswoman for [[Rahm Emanuel]].<ref name=marref1/> In 2011, Pfeiffer and Feinberg separated, and later divorced.<ref>{{cite web |author=The Reliable Source |date=December 20, 2011 |title=Love, etc.: Dan Pfeiffer and Sarah Feinberg separate; Debra Messing; Chaz Bono |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/post/love-etc-dan-pfeiffer-and-sarah-feinberg-separate-debra-messing-chaz-bono/2011/12/20/gIQAGb9f7O_blog.html |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=November 18, 2016}}</ref>

In 2016, Pfeiffer married Howli Ledbetter, former director of message planning in the White House Office during the Obama administration.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2016/05/18/former-white-house-aide-dan-pfeiffer-engaged-to-another-obama-alum-howli-ledbetter|title=Former White House aide Dan Pfeiffer engaged to another Obama alum, Howli Ledbetter|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=May 18, 2016|access-date=July 20, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Howli Pfeiffer profile|url=http://wearerally.com/our-team/howli-pfeiffer|website=Wearerally.com|access-date=November 18, 2016|archive-date=October 19, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019142859/http://wearerally.com/our-team/howli-pfeiffer/|url-status=dead}}</ref> In May 2018, Ledbetter gave birth to a daughter, Kyla.<ref>{{cite webmagazine |first=Lindsay |last=Schneider |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/06/pod-save-america-dan-pfeiffer-interview |title= "Democrats Get so Mad": Pod Save America's Dan Pfeiffer on Maggie Haberman, Robert Mueller, and Who Can Beat Trump in 2020 |date=June 21, 2018 |workmagazine=Vanity Fair}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Ryan |last=Cormier |url=https://www.delawareonline.com/story/life/2018/06/14/pod-save-america-host-talks-delaware-roots-obama-white-house/694448002/ |title=Former Obama advisor Dan Pfeiffer, Wilmington native, talks White House adventures in book |date=June 14, 2018 |work=Delaware News Journal}}</ref> In March 2021, their second child, Jack, was born.<ref>{{cite web |author=Crooked Media |date=March 25, 2021 |title=Joe Biden Vs The Filibuster {{!}} Pod Save America |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppQPmhHFhfQ |website=YouTube |access-date=2 April 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Crooked Media |date=April 1, 2021 |title=Planes, Trains and Gaetz {{!}} Pod Save America |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdFqZj3Alv8 |website=YouTube |access-date=April 2, 2021}}</ref>

* {{cite book |last= Pfeiffer |first= DanielDan |date= June 19, 2018 |title=''Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump''| |location=New York |publisher= [[Twelve (publisher)|Twelve]] |pageisbn= 304978-1538711712 |isbnpage= 1538711710304}}

* {{cite book |last= Pfeiffer |first= DanielDan |date= February 18, 2020 |title= Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again| |location=New York |publisher= [[Twelve (publisher)|Twelve]] |pageisbn= 304978-1538733554 |isbnpage= 1538733552304}}

* {{cite book |last= Pfeiffer |first= DanielDan |date= June 7, 2022 |title= Battling the Big Lie: How Fox, Facebook, and the MAGA Media Are Destroying America| |location=New York |publisher= [[Twelve (publisher)|Twelve]] |pageisbn= 336978-1538707975 |isbnpage= 1538707977336}}