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This 29-year-old former beauty queen might become the new mouthpiece for the Trump administration.

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White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt's August 12th announcement that she's leaving her

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role stunned the nation and triggered a massive buzz about who might replace her behind the

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briefing room lectern. However, White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly has emerged as a

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favorite to take on the role, according to prediction markets. Given that Kelly is immediately

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below Levitt in the White House communications echelon, she could have a leg up on the

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competition with direct experience around the role. Nonetheless, Kelly presents a distinctly

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unique resume for a senior White House aide. Prior to her career in politics, Kelly competed as a

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beauty queen, winning Miss State Fair of Virginia in 2019 and Miss Madison in Wisconsin in 2022.

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She graduated from Auburn University with a degree in political science in 2017 and later attended

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George Washington University, where she earned her master's in political management in 2021.

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During her time at GW, Kelly began her career in politics when she became the communications

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director for the Wisconsin Republican National Committee. Just three years later, the Virginia

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native found herself as the national press secretary of the RNC. At the start of President Trump's

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second term, Kelly was selected as the principal deputy press secretary, where she's been operating

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under Caroline Levitt. This year, Kelly emerged in the spotlight while Levitt was away on maternity

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leave, taking on the role as a public representative of the administration.

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Nothing's changed. The president, as he said time and time again, is extremely serious. Iran,

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a country that for 47 years has chanted death to America, has threatened our troops overseas,

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can never possess a nuclear weapon.

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Levitt announced that she was departing to spend more time raising her two young children,

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and is expected to remain a close advisor to the president. Sources within and close to the

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administration told the Post that other early frontrunners for the role are believed to include

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Alina Habba, the former acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey, and Breitbart Washington Bureau

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chief Matthew Boyle. A White House source recently told the Post that Trump has not yet decided on a

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permanent replacement for Levitt, who will be leaving her role at the end of August.