'Voldemort' tweet doesn't keep Neera Tanden from rising at White House

President has elevated Neera Tanden to serve as his domestic policy advisor following the departure of Susan Rice – as the White House aide puts her slashing tweets about in the rear view mirror.

The tweets – which included calling Sen. Mitch McConnell 'Voldemort' and Sen. Susan Collins 'the worst,' helped doom her nomination to head the White House budget office.

Her online missives rankled influential Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), and helped kill the nomination, which required confirmation. The former president of the Center for American Progress had also written that 'Vampires have more heart than .'

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