Pint-sized Mascot pup keeps Hillary Clinton's campaign staff going in a hectic campaign season..

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BROOKLYN — Life on a presidential campaign is rough.

For months, the hundreds of staffers working to help elect Hillary Clinton have spent seven days a week holed up in the campaign's hectic Brooklyn headquarters, working long hours to crunch data, build an organizational infrastructure and push a message that will help their candidate win the White House come November.

And when that stress gets to be too much, staffers often turn to Winnie, a teeny and docile Pomeranian and Schipperke mix who has become a calming presence in an otherwise stressful environment.

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"Various people will just walk up to Winnie and scoop her up and walk away," said Timball, who each day sneaks Winnie into headquarters, where four-legged friends are technically not allowed.

Timball never planned on bringing Winnie into the office when he accepted the job as a tech developer for Clinton's campaign. But when leaving Winnie home during the day with his roommate's dog didn't work out, he snuck her into his office and kept her by his desk.

Timball thought Winnie would be kicked out after she escaped the confines of his cubicle, exposing the fact that he'd been harboring a pet.

But she had already became such a calming presence to those around her that senior staff allowed her to stay.

Since Winnie received permission to spend her days at HQ, she's become a celebrity of sorts in the office.

She has her own social media presence on Facebook and Instagram run by Rachel Cantor, a software engineer for the campaign.

Winnie even has her own IMDb page, created after her appearance in an episode of Showtime's The Circus — a docu-series about the 2016 campaign.

Now, Winnie serves a bigger purpose — drawing supporters and volunteers to the campaign app her owner helped design.

When building the app — which allows users to complete organizing tasks in their own "virtual campaign office" — designers were looking for a way to incentivize users to come back day after day.

They decided to add in Winnie, who like any dog needs to be fed or pet or she'll run away.