Aaron Pellish - Campaign Embed
Aaron Pellish
Campaign Embed
Aaron Pellish is a campaign embed for CNN covering the 2024 presidential election
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Trump picks Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be his Department of Health and Human Services secretary
Nov 15, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump has picked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be his next secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, a choice that would add to Trump’s list of provocative picks whose confirmation processes will test the loyalty of Senate Republicans.
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead new ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ in Trump administration
Nov 13, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead a new “Department of Government Efficiency” in his second administration.
Harris concedes the election, but not ‘the fight that fueled this campaign’
Nov 6, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris offered an uplifting, positive charge to her supporters as she conceded the 2024 presidential election, acknowledging the stinging loss while committing to a peaceful transfer of power and vowing to “fight.”
Trump says RFK Jr.’s proposal to remove fluoride from public water ‘sounds OK to me’
Nov 3, 2024
Former President Donald Trump on Sunday expressed tentative support for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s plan to order the removal of fluoride from water supplies during a potential second Trump term, saying that it “sounds OK to me.”
RFK Jr. said Trump promised him ‘control’ of HHS and USDA
Oct 29, 2024
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told supporters on Monday that former president Donald Trump has promised to give him “control” of several public health agencies, including the US Department of Health and Human Services and the US Department of Agriculture, if he’s reelected in November.
Harris makes final push to close gap with male voters
Oct 27, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris is launching new ads this weekend targeting men in battleground states as part of her campaign’s effort to close the deficit she faces with male voters in the final days before Election Day.
Harris and Trump duked it out in Michigan on Friday. Here’s what they said
Oct 19, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump collided Friday in Michigan, both barnstorming the state as they wage a tight battle for its potentially decisive 15 Electoral College votes.
Walz tries to burnish his everyman image with trip home to Minnesota
Oct 12, 2024
As a high school marching band played a rendition of Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline,” Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz walked down the 50-yard line at the crosstown rivalry football game on Friday between Mankato East High School and Mankato West High School. Walz, accompanying the latter team’s captains, received an introduction that would work equally well at a campaign rally.
Walz backs off comment that Electoral College should go: ‘My position is the campaign’s position’
Oct 11, 2024
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Thursday attempted to walk back a comment he made earlier in the week calling for the elimination of the Electoral College, trying to align himself more closely with Vice President Kamala Harris’ position.
Walz says Electoral College ‘needs to go’ at California fundraiser
Oct 9, 2024
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said the Electoral College “needs to go,” while acknowledging “that’s not the world we live in,” during a campaign fundraiser in California on Tuesday, according to a pool report.
Emhoff spokesperson denies to Semafor assault of ex-girlfriend alleged in tabloid report
Oct 4, 2024
A spokesperson for second gentleman Doug Emhoff denied claims made in a tabloid report that he assaulted a former girlfriend in 2012.
Walz says he ‘misspoke’ after unearthed newspaper reports undercut claim he was in Hong Kong during Tiananmen Square protests
Oct 2, 2024
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said on Tuesday he “misspoke” when he previously said he’d visited Hong Kong in the spring of 1989 during protests in China’s Tiananmen Square but insisted he “was in Hong Kong and China” during the pro-democracy protests.
VA employees improperly accessed medical files of Vance and Walz
Sep 30, 2024
Employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs improperly accessed the medical files of Sen. JD Vance and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the two major party vice presidential nominees, and an investigation is under way.
Melania Trump again raises questions about Butler shooting while recounting the moments she learned of assassination attempts
Sep 26, 2024
Former first lady Melania Trump reflected on her experience of the two assassination attempts on her husband’s life, including the moments she learned of both incidents, while again raising questions about the details of the July shooting at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Why male voters are such an important target for Harris
Sep 19, 2024
The sustained support from women has put Kamala Harris within reach of defeating Donald Trump, but her campaign is urgently working to bolster its standing with another group of voters that could ultimately determine the election: Men.
About
Aaron Pellish is a campaign embed for CNN covering the 2024 presidential election.
Pellish previously worked for CNN’s political unit as an assignment editor coordinating coverage of the 2020 presidential election. Prior to joining the political unit, he worked as an assignment editor and producer in the DC bureau, where he covered the White House and Capitol Hill as well as protests, shootings, and breaking news events in DC.
Pellish graduated from the University of Missouri with a degree in journalism.
