Jeff Roe is the founder and principal of Axiom Strategies, a political consulting firm based in Kansas City, Missouri, with twelve offices in eight states.
37 Facts About Jeff Roe
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Jeff Roe formerly served as a chief of staff, campaign manager, and longtime aide for United States Representative Sam Graves.
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Jeff Roe has consulted for a variety of local, state, and federal political campaigns including the presidential campaigns of Mike Huckabee, Rick Perry and Ted Cruz.
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Jeff Roe was the senior strategist and campaign manager for Cruz's 2016 presidential bid.
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Jeff Roe has advised numerous members of Congress, US Senate, governors and other statewide candidates including Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise.
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Jeff Roe has served as a strategist for the Club for Growth on various issue and candidate campaigns.
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Jeff Roe grew up on his family's farm, which grew corn and soybean, and raised hogs and cattle.
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Jeff Roe earned the rank of Eagle Scout at age 15 and joined the Army National Guard at age 17.
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Jeff Roe graduated from Northwest Missouri State University in 1994 where he wrote conservative columns for his college's newspaper.
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Subsequently, in 2006, Jeff Roe founded Axiom Strategies, a Republican campaign consulting firm.
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Jeff Roe counted a number of high-profile losing clients the same year, including Wink Harman, Jim Barnett, Bill Stouffer, and Van Tran.
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In 2011, The Kansas City Star wrote that Jeff Roe had "evolved into a mainstream player," citing his work to pass a Kansas City sales tax increase to create a nicer home for wild animals at the Kansas City Zoo.
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Jeff Roe regularly provides commentary for news outlets and publications such as The Kansas City Star, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Roll Call, The Hill, Fox News, Politico and radio stations such as KMBC and WPHT.
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Jeff Roe is well known for using sophisticated polling and campaign data to make strategic decisions, including targeting phone calls and other campaign messages to hit the ideas most likely to resonate with particular voters.
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Jeff Roe played a role in Christi Craddick's successful bid for Texas Railroad Commissioner and David Dewhurst's unsuccessful United States Senate campaign.
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In 2013, Jeff Roe was chosen to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
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In 2014, Jeff Roe hired Travis Smith, the former chief-of-staff for Congressman Kevin Yoder.
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That same year, Jeff Roe was the lead consultant for Martha McSally's successful bid for Congress, in which she defeated incumbent Ron Barber by 167 votes in the closest congressional election in Arizona history.
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Jeff Roe was involved in Mark Walker and David Rouzer's elections to open congressional seats in North Carolina and Glenn Grothman's election to the open congressional seat in Wisconsin.
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Jeff Roe consulted for the re-election bids of Kevin Yoder, Ann Wagner, Sam Graves, Blaine Luetkemeyer, Billy Long, Chuck Fleischmann and Jason Smith.
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Jeff Roe was part of the team in Bruce Rauner's successful campaign for governor in Illinois, Greg Abbott's successful campaign for governor in Texas, and Scott Walker's successful Wisconsin gubernatorial bid.
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In Texas State Senate races, Jeff Roe consulted for Bob Hall, who ousted 12-year incumbent Bob Deuell, and for Don Huffines, who unseated nearly 20-year incumbent John Carona.
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Jeff Roe was involved in five of the top ten Republican takeover seats in the country.
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In 2014, Jeff Roe was hired by Ted Cruz as a political strategist.
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Jeff Roe was hired by Catherine Hanaway for her 2016 gubernatorial campaign in Missouri.
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On January 24,2016, Jeff Roe was featured on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace as "Power Player of the Week".
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In 2018, Jeff Roe was the senior strategist for Ted Cruz's successful US Senate re-election bid.
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Jeff Roe consulted on Martha McSally's unsuccessful campaign for an open US Senate seat in Arizona.
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In 2020, Jeff Roe advised the campaigns of several dozen Republican candidates.
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In 2021, Jeff Roe managed the campaign of Glenn Youngkin for the office of Governor of Virginia.
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In March 2023, Jeff Roe was hired by the Never Back Down Super PAC, a group supporting Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for President in 2024.
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Jeff Roe stepped down from his role with the PAC in December 2023.
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Jeff Roe's footprint has grown partly by acquiring companies that provide specific campaign services, or by building these services.
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Jeff Roe founded a creative agency and direct mail firm called "Command" and the polling and public opinion research company Remington Research Group.
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Jeff Roe restructured his business model in August 2013 in order to handle an uptick in business.
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Jeff Roe owns Capitol Franking Group, which creates franked mail for members of Congress.
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Jeff Roe announced a strategic partnership with Prosper Group, a digital marketing agency, that combined represented a quarter of GOP lawmakers at the time.