

Schwarzenegger was predicted to lose the 2006 election, having lost four ballot measures in 2005. Prior to Schmidt’s involvement, the governor’s approval rating was 39%. In 2006, Schmidt left the White House to become the campaign manager of the successful re-election campaign for California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, following the firing of Mike Murphy, Rob Stutzman and Pat Clarey. Supreme Court nominations of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito. In 20, he was the White House strategist responsible for the U.S. Bush's re-election campaign Schmidt oversaw the reelection "war room". In 2004, he was a member of the senior strategic planning group, led by White House adviser Karl Rove, that ran President George W. Schmidt joined the Bush administration as a deputy assistant to the president and counselor to Vice President Dick Cheney. In 2001, he became the communications director and chief communications strategist of the National Republican Congressional Committee. Bush in January 2006īy late 2000, Schmidt was communications director of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. In 1999, he was the communications director for Lamar Alexander's presidential run, leaving in June when the campaign reduced its senior staff. In 1998, he was the communications director for California State Treasurer Matt Fong's unsuccessful campaign to unseat U.S. This Kentucky campaign's advertising strategy was featured in the second edition of George Magazine.įrom 1997 to 1998, Schmidt was communications director for California State Senator Tim Leslie. Scott, who is formerly a Justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court. In 1995, Schmidt managed the unsuccessful campaign for Kentucky Attorney General of Will T. Schmidt completed his final math course and received his degree in 2013. He joined the Delta Tau Delta fraternity, and worked on the 1992 gubernatorial campaign of Delaware Republican B. He left three credits short of graduation because he did not pass a math course Schmidt has said that he has been diagnosed with a learning disability that makes higher math difficult for him. During this time, he registered as a Republican. Schmidt attended the University of Delaware from 1988 through the spring of 1993, majoring in political science. As a young boy, he distributed campaign materials for Democrat Bill Bradley's 1978 United States Senate election in New Jersey. In 1988, he was one of two graduating seniors voted "most likely to succeed" by his classmates at North Plainfield High School. The son of a schoolteacher and a telecommunications executive, Schmidt grew up in North Plainfield, New Jersey, where he became an Eagle Scout, a tight end on the high school football team, a two-year member of the National Honor Society, and senior class vice president. In a podcast on December 14, 2020, Schmidt announced that he planned to register as a member of the Democratic Party. It became the most financially successful Super-PAC in American history, raising almost $100 million to campaign against Trump's failed 2020 re-election bid. Schmidt is a founder of The Lincoln Project, a group founded to campaign against former President Trump. It's no longer dedicated to American democracy."

In early December 2020, he stated: "The Republican Party is an organized conspiracy for the purposes of maintaining power for self-interest, and the self-interest of its donor class. In September 2020, Schmidt predicted that violence would erupt as a result of Trump's election denial proclamations. In June 2018, Schmidt renounced the Republican Party as "fully the party of Trump". Schmidt has been extremely critical of former President Donald Trump, and of the GOP for supporting him. He became a political analyst for MSNBC in 2011, and appeared on the third season of Showtime's The Circus. He was a vice chair at the public relations firm Edelman, where he advised CEOs and senior decision makers at Fortune 500 corporations, until he stepped down July 2018. Bush, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Arizona Senator John McCain during his 2008 presidential campaign. He is known for working on Republican political campaigns, including those of President George W. Stephen Edward Schmidt (born September 28, 1970) is an American political and corporate strategist, media commentator and founder of The Warning.
