Steve Schmidt

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Stephen Edward Schmidt (born September 28, 1970) is an American political and corporate strategist. He co-founded the Lincoln Project in 2019, in opposition to Donald Trump and his leadership of the Republican Party. He left the project in 2021 and has co-founded the Save America Movement, a PAC organized to oppose the actions of the Republican Party under Trump. He authors a podcast on Substack entitled, The Warning. Earlier, Schmidt had worked on Republican political campaigns, including those of President George W. Bush, California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and U.S. senator from Arizona John McCain during his 2008 presidential campaign. 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. He became a political analyst for MSNBC in 2011, and appeared on the third season of Showtime's The Circus. Schmidt has been extremely critical of Donald Trump and, of the GOP for...

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