Campaign Trend Podcast

In this episode we speak with David Winston , one of the most trusted names in political polling. He's the president of The Winston Group, a Washington, D.C., a strategic planning and survey research firm. David has served as a strategic advisor to Senate and House Republican leadership for the past 10 years. Read David's latest insights at RollCall.com. The Business of Politics Show, ho...

Dante Vitagliano is the founder of Trailmapper , whose product Prospector helps campaigns raise more money from major donors with less effort. Before that Dante worked on campaigns throughout New Hampshire. Trailmapper is a Startup Caucus portfolio company. The Business of Politics Show, hosted by Eric Wilson , is a production of Startup Caucus, an investment fund and incubator for Republican camp...

Edith Jorge-Tuñón is the Deputy Executive Director of the Republican State Leadership Committee . The RSLC helps state legislative candidates across the country win their elections. They've just come off of a very successful 2021 election season in Virginia and New Jersey. The Business of Politics Show, hosted by Eric Wilson , is a production of Startup Caucus, an investment fund and incubato...

Today we're joined by Barrett Davie , co-founder of Surus , a campaign tech, data, and managed services company based in Illinois. Barrett was also a Republican nominee for Illinois State Senate in 2018. Barrett is the first candidate we've had on the podcast so you'll see things from both sides of the table in this episode. The Business of Politics Show, hosted by Eric Wilson , is...

On this episode we speak with Will Ritter who is the Co-Founder and CEO of POOLHOUSE, which creates bold campaigns that win elections, empower brands, and move people to action. We discuss the genesis of POOHOUSE and how their approach to ad-making made the difference on election day for Glenn Youngkin in Virginia.  The Business of Politics Show, hosted by Eric Wilson, is a production of Startup C...

On this episode we speak with Brent Buchanan who is the CEO & Founder of Cygnal , which provide spolling, market research, and predictive analytics services to campaigns, corporations, and trade association. He's also an investor in campaign tech startups. We discuss the innovations Brent is leading in polling and insights he has as an investor. The Business of Politics Show , hosted by E...

On this episode, we're joined by Shane Greer, the co-owner of Campaigns & Elections . The C&E website should be bookmarked for every listener of this podcast. It's a must-read for the political industry. Shane and his team also host the best conferences in the industry, bringing together professionals, operatives, and vendors several times a year. Shane and I discuss the professi...

Our guest today is Kevin McLaughlin who was most recently the Executive Director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) for the 2020 election cycle. He was deputy executive director for the 2016 cycle and a senior advisor in the 2014 cycle when the GOP took the majority. In this episode, we get in depth about the role and function of the NRSC and party committees in general. Visit...

In this conversation, we speak with Eliot Nelson , a political journalist — formerly with HuffPost who has launched a new project on Kickstarter called Political Arena . It's a comprehensive video game about politics. We talk about the challenges of turning political campaigns into a video game, his decision to pursue crowdfunding, and what he hopes players take away from Political Arena. You...

Our guest today is Michael Cohen, the author of the book " Modern Political Campaigns: How professionalism, technology, and speed have revolutionized elections. " Michael has one foot in academia and another in business. He's a PhD political scientist who lectures at Johns Hopkins University and through Cohen Research Group he provides research services like polling to a number of c...

Our guest today is Will Long , who is the co-founder and CEO of Numinar , the world's first artificially intelligent political campaign data platform that shows users how to win. Will and his friends started Numinar in 2018 while still at Harvard and now it's used by campaigns across the country. Numinar was the first investment we ever made with Startup Caucus and I've had the priv...

We're joined by Peter Loge, the Director of the Project on Ethics in Political Communication at George Washington University. Before moving to academia, Peter spent more than 25 years working as a Capitol Hill and White House staffer, lobbyist, and consultant. Now, he encourages students, academics, and practitioners to consider what, if any, ethical obligation political communication profess...

On this episode, we're speaking with Glenn Parham, the co-founder of Pundit Analytics , a digital content monitoring tool for politics and advocacy. Glenn is originally from California and he studied at UC Berkley. Before starting Pundit, Glenn was a software engineer at Microsoft and a Data Intelligence Engineer at Crowdpulse. Pundit Analytics aggregates and analyzes the digital output – ema...

Micaela is the executive director of the National Association of Business Political Action Committees more commonly known as "NABPAC." It's a non-profit trade association for PACs with a membership of more than 700 government affairs professionals with over 300 PAC. In this episode, we talk about the role employee-funded and business trade association PACs play in the political proc...

On this episode, we're speaking with Nicole Schlinger, President and Founder of Campaign Headquarters which is a call center for Republican campaigns and conservative organizations. More than anyone I know in politics, Nicole believes in building a scalable business and she's an avid reader about business, leadership, and management. Visit https://www.campaign-headquarters.com/ to learn...

On this episode, we're joined by Gerrit Lansing who is the President of WinRed, the Republican Party's official, networked grassroots donation platform. Before making the leap to entrepreneur, he built transformative digital programs at the National Republican Congressional Committee and the Republican National Committee. WinRed represents one of the GOP's most significant investmen...

The Business of Politics Show is a new podcast that brings listeners into conversation with entrepreneurs, donors, and operatives to learn about the rarely discussed business side of politics.  Our first episode hits feeds September 1, 2021. Subscribe now.  Visit our website: CampaignTrend.com