Joseph Paul Trippi was born on June 10,1956 and is an American political strategist.
33 Facts About Joe Trippi
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Joe Trippi has worked on a number of prominent gubernatorial and United States Senate campaigns, including the successful bids of Jerry Brown for Governor of California and Doug Jones for US Senate in Alabama.
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Joe Trippi was born in Jamestown, New York and raised in Los Angeles, California.
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Joe Trippi began his career in the mid-1970s working on several local elections in San Jose, California while he was attending San Jose State University, before leaving college a few credits shy of graduation to join the Ted Kennedy 1980 presidential campaign.
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Joe Trippi served as Deputy Campaign Manager for Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley's successful reelection bid in 1981 and his unsuccessful run in the 1982 California gubernatorial election.
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In 2010, Joe Trippi was a senior strategist and media consultant in Jerry Brown's successful run for reelection as California Governor.
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Joe Trippi worked on a number of recent House victories for Representatives Tulsi Gabbard, Janice Hahn, Mark Takano, and Seth Moulton.
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In 2017, Joe Trippi worked on the special election to fill the Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions on behalf of former US Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama Doug Jones.
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In 2018, Joe Trippi worked on the campaign of Janet Garrett, a retired schoolteacher and union leader running to unseat the conservative founder of the Freedom Caucus, US Rep.
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Joe Trippi currently serves as senior adviser to Senator Doug Jones and Senate candidate Teresa Tomlinson.
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Joe Trippi joined The Lincoln Project in July 2021 as a senior advisor.
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Joe Trippi has worked on international political campaigns over the years.
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In 1993, Joe Trippi worked for then-PASOK leader Andreas Papandreou's successful campaign of Prime Minister of Greece, as well as for his son, George Papandreou in 2007.
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Joe Trippi advised former British Prime Minister Tony Blair in 2005.
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In 2008, Joe Trippi helped Morgan Tsvangirai and Zimbabwe's opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change receive the most votes over Robert Mugabe in elections marred by violence.
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Joe Trippi brought media attention to Mugabe's democratic subversion and violence which led to a unity government and Tsvangarai becoming the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe.
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Joe Trippi was hired by the Libertas political party to work on their campaign for the 2009 European Parliament election.
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In January 2010, Michael Hastings reported that Joe Trippi was working in Iraq to help launch a secular moderate Shiite party: the Ahrar party headed by Iyad Jamal Al-Din.
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In 2011, Joe Trippi provided strategic support for the campaign of Goodluck Jonathan in the Nigerian presidential election.
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Joe Trippi served as a senior strategist for Cyril Ramaphosa's successful bid for African National Congress President in 2017, leading to Ramaphosa becoming the President of South Africa.
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Shrum has attributed Joe Trippi with conceiving and producing the famous spot on Cranston's campaign, "Zschau's Greatest Hits".
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In 1987, Joe Trippi left Doak and Shrum to work on Gary Hart's 1988 presidential bid with former colleague Paul Tully as deputy political director.
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Joe Trippi was assigned to manage reporters who surrounded the Hart home in Colorado, where Hart's wife, Lee, was on the weekend when the Donna Rice story broke.
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Two days later, as Gary and Lee Hart flew back from New Hampshire to Colorado to announce he was suspending his campaign, Joe Trippi took part in staging a press motorcade to a canceled Hart event, a subterfuge intended to delay discovery of Hart's flight.
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For Brown's campaign, Trippi and colleague Joe Costello orchestrated the first successful use of an 800 number in politics, raising $8 million by advertising the number on television and during debates.
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In 2002, when five Democratic congressmen were redistricted into Republican majority districts and forced in contests against Republican incumbents, Joe Trippi worked as a strategist and media consultant for Congressman Tim Holden, the only one of the five to win.
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Joe Trippi joined Jerry Brown again in 2006 serving as media consultant and strategist for his successful bid for California Attorney General.
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Joe Trippi worked as media strategist and a senior adviser for Doug Jones' successful campaign in the 2017 US Senate special election in Alabama, running for the seat left open when Jeff Sessions was appointed as Attorney General.
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Apart from campaign politics, Joe Trippi has been involved in many other facets of the political world.
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Joe Trippi was named a fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics and at the New Politics Institute, a think tank of the New Democrat Network.
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Joe Trippi has had roles on various cable and broadcast networks, previously as a contributor on MSNBC and Fox News, and a political analyst on CBS News.
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Joe Trippi has consulted with a number of leading non-profits and corporations including the Humane Society of the United States, the American Cancer Society, Best Friends Animal Society, Monster.
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Joe Trippi is a resident of the Eastern Shore of Maryland.