Edward Rollins was born on March 19,1943 and is an American political consultant and advisor who has worked on several high-profile Republican political campaigns in the United States.
34 Facts About Ed Rollins
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In 1983 and 1984, Ed Rollins was national campaign director for the successful Reagan-Bush 1984 campaign.
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Ed Rollins is currently Chief Political Strategist at the pro-Ron DeSantis PAC Ready for Ron.
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Ed Rollins was born in Boston, Massachusetts, into an Irish Catholic blue-collar household.
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Ed Rollins competed as a boxer from ages 13 to 23, winning several West Coast amateur titles.
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Ed Rollins recalls his record as 164 victories and just 2 defeats.
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Shortly thereafter, Ed Rollins spent most of a year in the hospital dealing with his back problems.
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Unable to pass the physical exam required for a sports scholarship because of his continuing back problems, after one semester Ed Rollins transferred to California State University, Chico, where he was hired as boxing coach.
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Ed Rollins interned in Sacramento for California's Democratic leader, Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh, in 1967.
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In 1972, Ed Rollins worked for the California campaign to re-elect President Richard Nixon.
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Ed Rollins moved to Washington in 1973, to serve as principal assistant to Monagan overseeing congressional relations at the US Department of Transportation.
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Ed Rollins continued as deputy assistant secretary for congressional affairs through the end of the Ford administration.
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In early 1979, Ed Rollins returned to Sacramento with his wife Kitty Nellor and became chief of staff for the Assembly Republican Caucus.
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When Nofziger resigned in November 1981, Ed Rollins was appointed as assistant to the president for political affairs and director of the Office of Political Affairs.
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Ed Rollins recovered and returned to his White House job in December 1982, holding the position until resigning in October 1983 to lead Reagan's re-election campaign.
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Ed Rollins worked as national campaign director to Ronald Reagan in the 1984 presidential election.
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However, Ed Rollins grew disenchanted after Regan passed him over for the post of Secretary of Labor following the resignation of Raymond Donovan, and with the abrasive chief's staff and style.
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In 1989, Ed Rollins headed the National Republican Congressional Committee, the House Republicans' campaign wing.
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Ed Rollins got into a highly visible feud with President Bush over the 1990 budget deal, in which Bush broke his 1988 campaign promise not to raise taxes.
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In June 1992, Ed Rollins agreed to serve as co-manager of Ross Perot's 1992 presidential campaign.
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Perot initially ended his campaign the day after Ed Rollins resigned, only to resume his campaign after the Democratic National Convention.
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Ed Rollins worked as the campaign manager for Christine Todd Whitman in her 1993 New Jersey gubernatorial race.
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Ed Rollins managed the campaign of George Nethercutt, who defeated Tom Foley in Washington State's eastern congressional district in November 1994.
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In 1998, Ed Rollins consulted on the campaign of Joe Khoury, a Republican candidate in Southern California's Inland Empire.
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Ed Rollins was then hired by Simon for the fall gubernatorial campaign, which lost to incumbent Democrat Gray Davis.
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Ed Rollins worked for the campaign of United States Representative Katherine Harris for the US Senate from Florida.
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Ed Rollins was the national campaign chairman on Mike Huckabee's 2008 presidential campaign.
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Ed Rollins was later overheard saying that he wanted to "knock out" Mitt Romney's teeth.
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Ed Rollins signed on to plan the campaign of Michele Bachmann, US representative for Minnesota's 6th district.
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Ed Rollins "stepped down from running day-to-day operations of the Bachmann campaign" as of September 2011, citing health reasons.
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In May 2022, Ed Rollins helped launch Ready for Ron, an organization working to draft and elect Florida Governor Ron DeSantis as president.
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Ed Rollins has been married three times; his first two marriages ended in divorce.
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Ed Rollins wed his third wife, Shari Lois Scharfer, a former CBS television executive, in 2003.
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Ed Rollins has an adopted daughter, Lily, from his second marriage to Sherrie Rollins Westin.