Harris remodels campaign with Obama alums

• Some of her rhetorical changes have been subtle. These personnel moves are not.
• But the new hires — including Obama veterans David Plouffe, Stephanie Cutter and Mitch Stewart — are not supplanting any existing employees.

Driving the news: Jen O'Malley Dillon, the Biden campaign chair, will remain in charge, with a direct report to Harris.

• Harris's brother-in-law, Tony West, is already asserting himself as an influential adviser in the campaign.
• Sheila Nix will stay in her role as Harris' chief of staff.
• Quentin Fulks, Harris' deputy campaign manager, will take on an expanded role leading the campaign's paid media.

Between the lines: Most of the new hires will be acting as consultants. With the exception of Plouffe, they will keep their old clients and affiliation.

• Plouffe, however, will sever ties with TikTok and he will no longer host a podcast with Kellyanne Conway, who ran Trump's 2016 campaign and remains a close Trump adviser.
• Cutter, who has been helping Harris prepare for media interviews, will keep her role in Precision Strategies, the firm she founded with Jen O'Malley Dillon, the campaign's chair.

Zoom in: Harris is building out her team with political players that were left off the field for most of 2024.

• Liz Allen, the undersecretary for public diplomacy and public affairs at the State Department, will serve as the chief of staff to Harris' eventual running mate.
• Jen Palmieri, who served as a communications director during the Obama administration and during Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign, will be the senior adviser for second gentleman Doug Emhoff.

Go deeper: Scoop: Kamala Harris' brother-in-law emerges as key campaign adviser

Axios' Erin Doherty contributed reporting.