Stephen Edward Schmidt is an American communications and public affairs strategist. He has worked on Republican political campaigns, including those of President George W. Bush, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Arizona Senator John McCain. Schmidt is a founder of The Lincoln Project, a political action committee of lifelong Republican strategists seeking to prevent Trump’s reelection. In June 2018, Schmidt renounced the Republican Party as “fully the party of Trump”
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Stephen Edward Schmidt is an American communications and public affairs strategist. He has worked on Republican political campaigns, including those of President George W. Bush, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Arizona Senator John McCain. He pushed McCain to select Sarah Palin as his running mate, a choice which McCain came to regret. Schmidt is a founder of The Lincoln Project, a political action committee of lifelong Republican strategists seeking to prevent Trump’s reelection. In June 2018, Schmidt renounced the Republican Party as \”fully the party of Trump\”. 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.” Schmidt has said that he has been diagnosed with a learning disability that makes higher math difficult for him. He left three credits short of graduating because he did not pass a math course. Schmidt has been a member of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity, and did field work for Republican candidates in Delaware, sometimes wearing campaign buttons to class. He joined the Bush administration as a Deputy Assistant to the President and Counselor to Vice President Dick Cheney in 2004.
He was the White House strategist responsible for the U.S. Supreme Court nominations of Samuel Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts in 2005 and 2006. In 2006, Schmidt became the campaign manager in the re-election campaign for California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. In 1998, Schmidt ran California State Senator Tim Leslie’s unsuccessful race for Lt. Governor of California. In 1999, he was the Communications Director for Lamar Alexander’s presidential run, leaving in June when the campaign reduced its senior staff. In 2002, he became a partner in Mercury Public Affairs, part of Fleishman-Hillard International Communications, in charge of Mercury’s operations in California. On July 2, 2008, Schmidt was appointed to head up day-to-day operations of the McCain campaign in response to concerns that the campaign lacked coordination and a clear message. The New York Times described Schmidt’s management as having transformed McCain’s campaign into an elbows-out, risk-taking, disciplined machine.
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