19 Facts About Alex Castellanos

Alejandro Castellanos was born on 1954 and is a Cuban-American political consultant.

Alex Castellanos has worked on electoral campaigns for Republican candidates including Bob Dole, George W Bush, Jeb Bush, and Mitt Romney.

Alex Castellanos is a regular guest commentator on Meet the Press and a contributor for CNN.

Alex Castellanos was born in Havana, Cuba in 1954 and immigrated to the United States in 1960 or 1961 with his family.

Alex Castellanos lived in North Carolina and attended the University of North Carolina, where he was a National Merit Scholar and a philosophy major.

Alex Castellanos has worked as a political consultant for Republican candidates for state and federal elections since the 1980s, including six presidential elections.

Alex Castellanos began his career working on the successful 1984 re-election campaigns for United States Senators Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond.

In 1989, Alex Castellanos became a partner at National Media, Inc.

In 1990, Alex Castellanos again worked on the re-election campaign for Jesse Helms.

Alex Castellanos again worked for Bob Dole on his 1996 presidential election campaign.

Alex Castellanos worked on Jesse Helms' re-election campaign in 1996; Helms pulled controversial ads against Charlie Sanders and Harvey Gantt in April 1996, and Alex Castellanos left the campaign at that time.

Alex Castellanos worked for Bob Taft's 1998 campaign for governor of Ohio.

In 2007 Alex Castellanos was named to GQ Magazine's list of the "50 Most Influential People in DC" The following year, Alex Castellanos worked for Mitt Romney's 2008 presidential campaign as part of the firm Midnight Ride Media, which managed advertising, production and media buying for the campaign.

Alex Castellanos is currently a principal partner at Purple Strategies, major clients of the bipartisan firm have included the United States Chamber of Commerce, BP and PhRMA.

Alex Castellanos is a guest commentator and contributor for CNN and has appeared on Meet the Press where he argued with Rachel Maddow in April 2012 about the existence of a gender gap in pay.

Additionally, Alex Castellanos writes online commentary for The Huffington Post and National Review, and is a public speaker and member of the Washington Speakers Bureau.

In 2008, Alex Castellanos was a resident fellow at Harvard University's Institute of Politics.

In 2013, Alex Castellanos shaved his mustache on The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer after promising to do so if 500 new donors would give to Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy.

Also in 2013, Alex Castellanos led a Super PAC project called NewRepublican.