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Tim Miller (political Strategist)
Tim Miller (born December 25, 1981) is an American political commentator, writer and former political consultant. He was communications director for the Jeb Bush 2016 presidential campaign, but that year became an early and prominent Republican critic of Donald Trump. Miller is a writer-at-large for the Never Trump opinion website '' The Bulwark'' and, having succeeded Charlie Sykes in 2023, host for the Bulwark's daily podcast, and contributes as an MSNBC analyst. Early life In 2000, Miller graduated from Regis Jesuit High School in Aurora, Colorado, and in 2004 he graduated from George Washington University with a BA in political science. McCain and Bush campaigns A Littleton, Colorado, native, Miller started out in Republican politics as an intern working on the 1998 Colorado gubernatorial election. He later earned a bachelor's degree from the George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs. Miller was an Iowa staffer for John McCain in the 2008 Republi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Littleton, Colorado
Littleton is a home rule municipality city located in Arapahoe, Douglas, and Jefferson counties, Colorado, United States. Littleton is the county seat of Arapahoe County and is a part of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city population was 45,652 at the 2020 United States census, ranking as the 20th most populous municipality in Colorado. History The city of Littleton's history dates back to the 1859 Pike's Peak gold rush, which brought not just gold seekers, but merchants and farmers to the community. Richard Sullivan Little was an engineer from New Hampshire who came West to work on irrigation systems. Little soon decided to settle in the area at present day Littleton and brought his wife Angeline from the East in 1862. The Littles and neighbors built the Rough and Ready Flour Mill in 1867, which provided a solid economic base in the community. By 1890, the community had grown to 245 people and the residents voted to incorporate the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aurora, Colorado
Aurora (, ) is a List of municipalities in Colorado#Home rule municipality, home rule city located in Arapahoe County, Colorado, Arapahoe, Adams County, Colorado, Adams, and Douglas County, Colorado, Douglas List of counties in Colorado, counties, Colorado, United States. The city's population was 386,261 at the 2020 United States census with 336,035 residing in Arapahoe County, 47,720 residing in Adams County, and 2,506 residing in Douglas County. Aurora is the List of municipalities in Colorado, third-most-populous city in the State of Colorado and the List of United States cities by population, 51st-most-populous city in the United States. Aurora is a principal city of the Denver–Aurora–Centennial, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Denver-Aurora, CO Combined Statistical Area, and a major city of the Front Range Urban Corridor. History Before European settlement, the land that now makes up Aurora was the territory of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Our Principles PAC
Our Principles PAC was a super PAC established in January 2016 as part of the Never Trump movement. Its goal was to oppose Donald Trump's campaign for president. Our Principles PAC was led by Katie Packer, who was deputy campaign manager of Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign. The month of the Iowa caucuses, the group sent out mailers to voters in the state, attacking Trump. In March, it released a video attacking Trump, featuring women reading some of his sexist statements about women. During the 2016 presidential election campaign, New York-based hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer, whose corporation Elliott Management Corporation (EMC) specializes in distressed debt acquisitions, was one of the group's donors. Singer supported Marco Rubio Marco Antonio Rubio (; born May 28, 1971) is an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat serving since 2025 as the 72nd United States Secretary of State, United States secretary of state. A member of the Republican Party (United States) , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corey Lewandowski
Corey R. Lewandowski (; born September 18, 1973) is an American political operative, lobbyist, political commentator and author who is politically associated with Donald Trump. He was the first campaign manager of Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and was dismissed by Trump during the Republican Primary. He later became a political commentator for One America News Network (OANN) and Fox News. Before convincing Trump he could lead his campaign, Lewandowski worked on several campaigns, as well as for a congressman, for the conservative advocacy group Americans for Prosperity, and as a lobbyist. He also held the position of Seasonal Marine Patrol Officer Trainee for approximately 3½ years and graduated from the New Hampshire part-time Police Officer Academy. He ran unsuccessfully for office twice, once in Massachusetts and once in New Hampshire. On December 21, 2016, Lewandowski co-founded Avenue Strategies, a lobbying firm, in an office near the White House. He left the firm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Right To Rise
Right to Rise is a political action committee (PAC) created to support Jeb Bush in the 2016 presidential election. A Super PAC, Right to Rise is permitted to raise and spend unlimited amounts of corporate, union, and individual campaign contributions under the terms of the ''Citizens United'' Supreme Court decision. History The creation of the Super PAC was announced on January 6, 2015, by Bush. According to Bush, the name was inspired by Congressman Paul Ryan and 1996 Republican vice presidential candidate Jack Kemp. Bush's campaign strategy would "commence with six months of fundraising for the Right to Rise super PAC and enough muscle to push aside Mitt Romney". Bush personally raised money for the Super PAC prior to the official announcement of his candidacy. Bush officially announced his candidacy in June 2015, at which point Mike Murphy took over leadership of Right to Rise. The Bush campaign planned to leave Right to Rise in charge of television and digital advertisin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeb Bush
John Ellis "Jeb" Bush (born February 11, 1953) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. A member of the Bush family, Bush political family, he was an unsuccessful candidate for president of the United States in the 2016 Republican primaries. Bush, who grew up in Houston, was the second son of former president George H. W. Bush and former First Lady of the United States, First Lady Barbara Bush, and a younger brother of former president George W. Bush. He graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and attended the University of Texas, University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a degree in Latin American affairs. In 1980, he moved to Florida and pursued a career in real estate development. In 1987, Bush became Florida's Florida Secretary of Commerce, secretary of commerce. He served until 1988. At that time, he joined his father's 1988 United States presidential election, successful campaign for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitt Romney 2012 Presidential Campaign
The 2012 presidential campaign of Mitt Romney officially began on June 2, 2011, when former Governor of Massachusetts, Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney formally announced his candidacy for the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party nomination for President of the United States, at an event in Stratham, New Hampshire. Having previously run in the Republican Party presidential primaries, 2008, 2008 Republican primaries, this was Romney's second campaign for the presidency. He filed his organization with the Federal Election Commission as an exploratory committee and announced the organization in a video message on April 11, 2011. He became the party's presumptive nominee with his victory in the Texas Republican primary, 2012, Texas primary on May 29, 2012. On August 11, 2012, in Norfolk, Virginia, Romney announced that Paul Ryan, the long-time United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative for , would be his running mate for Vice President of the United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitt Romney
Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12, 1947) is an American businessman and retired politician. He served as a United States Senate, United States senator from Utah from 2019 to 2025 and as the 70th governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007. He was the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party's nominee in the 2012 United States presidential election, 2012 U.S. presidential election. Mitt Romney is a son of George W. Romney, a former governor of Michigan. Raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Mitt spent over two years in France as a Mormon missionary. He married Ann Romney, Ann Davies in 1969; they have five sons. Active in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) throughout his adult life, Romney served as Bishop (Latter Day Saints), bishop of his Ward (LDS Church), ward and later as a Stake (LDS Church), stake president for an area covering Boston and many of its suburbs. By 1971, he had participated in the political campaigns of both his paren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esquire (magazine)
''Esquire'' is an American men's magazine. Currently published in the United States by Hearst Communications, Hearst, it also has more than 20 international editions. Founded in 1933, it flourished during the Great Depression and World War II under the guidance of founders Arnold Gingrich, David A. Smart, and Henry L. Jackson while during the 1960s it pioneered the New Journalism movement. After a period of quick and drastic decline during the 1990s, the magazine revamped itself as a lifestyle-heavy publication under the direction of David M. Granger, David Granger. History ''Esquire'' was first issued in October 1933 as an offshoot of trade magazine ''GQ, Apparel Arts'' (which later became ''Gentleman's Quarterly''; ''Esquire'' and ''GQ'' would share ownership for almost 45 years). The magazine was first headquartered in Chicago and then, in New York City. It was founded and edited by David A. Smart, Henry L. Jackson and Arnold Gingrich. Jackson died in a United Air Lines Flig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Huntsman 2012 Presidential Campaign
The Jon Huntsman presidential campaign of 2012 began in mid-2011 when United States Ambassador to China, Ambassador and former List of Governors of Utah, Governor of Utah Jon Huntsman, Jr. announced his candidacy for the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party (GOP) nomination for President of the United States in the 2012 United States presidential election, 2012 election. On May 3, 2011, Huntsman announced his intentions to file a political action committee with the Federal Election Commission (named "H-PAC"). Subsequently, Huntsman announced on June 14, 2011, he was running for president and made an official announcement in Liberty State Park one week later on June 21. Huntsman sought to establish himself as an anti-Negative campaigning, negative candidate and take the "high road". In his announcement, he also stated "I don't think you need to run down someone's reputation in order to run for the office of President." Huntsman aggressively touted himself as a fiscal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Republican Party Presidential Primaries
From January 3 to June 3, 2008, voters of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party chose their nominee for President of the United States, president in the 2008 United States presidential election. United States Senate, Senator John McCain of Arizona was selected as the nominee through a series of Partisan primary, primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 2008 Republican National Convention held from Monday, September 1, through Thursday, September 4, 2008, in Saint Paul, Minnesota. President George W. Bush was ineligible to be elected to a third term due to the term limits established by the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, 22nd Amendment. In a crowded primary of several prominent Republicans eyeing the nomination, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani was the early frontrunner. However, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee won the Iowa Caucuses as he gained momentum just two months prior to the primary. Moderate U.S. Senat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John McCain
John Sidney McCain III (August 29, 1936 – August 25, 2018) was an American statesman and United States Navy, naval officer who represented the Arizona, state of Arizona in United States Congress, Congress for over 35 years, first as a U.S. House of Representatives, Representative from 1983 to 1987, and then as a U.S. senator from Arizona, U.S. senator from 1987 until his death in 2018. He was the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party's nominee in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. McCain is a son of Admiral John S. McCain Jr. and grandson of Admiral John S. McCain Sr. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1958 and Early life and military career of John McCain, received a commission in the U.S. Navy. McCain became a Naval aviator (United States), naval aviator and flew ground-attack aircraft from aircraft carriers. During the Vietnam War, he almost died in the 1967 USS Forrestal fire, 1967 USS ''Forrestal'' fire. While on a bombing mission during O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
