Mike Madrid
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| 🎓 Alma mater | Moorpark College Georgetown University (B.A.) |
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| 🏛️ Political party | Republican |
Mike Madrid is an American political strategist, campaign manager, and political commentator. A member of the Republican party, he was press secretary for former Republican leader of the California Assembly Rod Pacheco, as well as the political director for the California Republican Party. He has, however, done consulting work for candidates from both the Democratic Party and Republican Party. He is widely considered an expert on the political and voting behaviors of the Latino population, his research having pioneered political communication strategies geared towards the Latino community in various states. He has provided commentary to various publications regarding changing trends in the Latino vote.
Madrid was a fellow for the Unruh Institute of Politics at the University of Southern California and taught at the university as an adjunct lecturer on Race, Class, and Partisanship at the USC Center for the Political Future in 2019. He released his book on Latino voting trends, "The Latino Century: How America's Largest Minority Is Transforming Democracy", in June 2024.[1]
Madrid also co-founded the Lincoln Project in 2019, which is considered one of the most successful Super-PACs in American history, raising almost $100 million to campaign against Trump's failed 2020 re-election bid.[2] He left the group in 2021. Madrid is currently the principal at political consultancy group Grassroots Lab.
Biography
Madrid grew up in Moorpark, California, born to Mexican American parents who moved to Moorpark in 1971. He initially attended Moorpark College, where he served as the student body president. His first experience with politics came after volunteering during the 1992 presidential election in California.[3] California's then governor Pete Wilson appointed Madrid as the California Community College Board of Governors' student representative in the early 1990s. He would later transfer to Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service and graduate in 1997. His thesis was on Latino politics and the politicization of Latinos in the American Southwest.
In 2001, he was named one of America's Most Influential Hispanics by Hispanic Business Magazine. He would go on to work extensively with the California Republican Party, serving as the political director for the party. He would also serve as the press secretary for Rod Pacheco.
References
- ↑ "Mike Madrid". USC Center for the Political Future. Retrieved February 19, 2025.
- ↑ Hakim, Danny (February 13, 2021). "Lincoln Project Co-Founder Resigns From Board Amid a Deepening Crisis". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2021-02-13. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Ortiz Oakley, Eloy. "Chancellor's Office Podcast CCC21042 Episode 42 – Transcript" (PDF). California Community Colleges. Retrieved February 19, 2025.
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- People from Moorpark, California
- American people of Mexican descent
- California Republicans
- Latino conservatism in the United States
- Hispanic and Latino American people in California politics
- American campaign managers
- American political consultants
- American founders
- Never Trump movement
- American political commentators
- Moorpark College alumni
- Georgetown University alumni
- University of Southern California faculty
