Camille Chen ⇒ Vicki Tsang, Chief Assistant to the Press Secretary [X]

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Aubrey Plaza ⇒ Cassandra Drayton, Deputy Communications Director [x]

A graduate of Yale English department, Cassandra Drayton bounced between jobs, unable to find a career challenging or interesting enough to hold her attention. However, when an employeer fired her — ostensibly for her know-it-all attitude but really for her bisexuality — she found a sudden thirst to change the world. A friend of a friend told her about the Senator from Michigan no one thought would win — and Cassandra impulsively bought herself a one-way plane ticket that very day.

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David Krumholtz ⇒ Elijah ‘Eli’ Lerner, Deputy Chief of Staff [x]

Politics was the Lerner family business, and Elijah is no different. Armed with a law degree from Harvard and more family connections than you could shake a stick at, he fought his way through the support staff of Congress and lobbyists alike. When an old family friend — Josh Lyman, former Deputy Chief of Staff to the Bartlett Administration and Chief of Staff to the one-term Santos Administration — called him up and told him to fly to Michigan, Elijah did without a second thought. When the man who got two presidents elected tells you to work for a candidate, you do.

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Lucy Liu ⇒ First Lady Natalie Andrews [x]

Natalie Andrews never thought she would get very far in life. Born to a widow living off of the charity of San Francisco Chinatown, she grew up traveling from place to place. When she was eleven, a kind man gave her one of his cameras — and her first love was born. She and her husband met when she traveled to Michigan to take photos of his campaign for the House of Representatives for the Associated Press. He lost the race, but they were married seven months later.

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Conner Paolo ⇒ Peter Bradley, Personal Aide to the President [x]

Peter Bradley grew up in the foster system after being removed from his mother’s care at the age of eight. Although smart, stubborn, and ambitious, he got through one semester at Georgetown before his funds ran out. Unwilling to take out a loan, Peter began looking for work around D.C. He caught the eye of former White House staffer Charlie Young, who made a few calls to his former stomping grounds. Although overwhelmed by the grandeur of the White House, Peter accepted the position of Personal Aide to the President without hesitation.

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Josh Charles ⇒ Jacob Winther, Communications Director [x]

A divorced father who was far too snide for his own good, Jacob Winther was only courteous in writing. He never worked in a national campaign before Andrews for America. His ex-wife lived in New York with his two children, Joshua and Julie, until President William Andrews won the election. When the election was announced, Jacob begged her to move to Washington D.C., and she did — grudgingly, and she won’t ever let him forget it.

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Tahmoh Penikett ⇒ Tom Lamb, Press Secretary [x]

After his PR firm collapsed, Tom began consulting for various politicians, living as a partying bachelor. When his father and stepmother died in a car crash, he became the gardian of his stepsister, Lily. His old mentor Annette Bridge called, offering him a job in the Andrews campaign and a position at the White House should they win. Now he’s a single man in Washington trying to raise a teenage girl under the scrutiny of a hostile media.

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Idris Elba ⇒ President William J. Andrews

Four years after incumbent President Matt Santos lost the White House, William J. Andrews, a Senator from Michigan, rose up and took it back from the Republicans in the 2014 elections. Now he and his staff have to deal with jaded Democrats, jilted Republicans, and their personal lives — all while running the country.