Former RGA Executive Director Nick Ayers Named Chief of Staff For Vice President Mike Pence

Nick Ayers, who served as the Executive Director of the Republican Governors Association from 2007-2011, was today named the new Chief of Staff for Vice President Mike Pence.

Ayers was an instrumental strategist of the RGA’s victorious 2010 campaign, when Republicans added 11 governorships and took a strong hold of the majority of statehouses.

The Daily Caller reports:

“Vice President Mike Pence announced Thursday that he will bring on a former aide to serve as his new chief of staff.

The vice president’s current chief of staff, Josh Pitcock, will leave in August and will be replaced by Nick Ayers, a Republican operative from Georgia who served as Pence’s chief political strategist when he was running for vice president…

Pence said, ‘I am pleased to welcome Nick Ayers to the Office of the Vice President. During my years as Governor, then as a candidate and serving as Vice President, I have come to appreciate Nick’s friendship, keen intellect and integrity and I couldn’t be more excited to have him come to the White House as my Chief of Staff.'”