Joe Trippi

Democratic Strategist/Senior Advisor for The Lincoln Project

Joe Trippi is credited for his pioneering work to bring political campaigns into the digital age. As National Campaign Manager for Howard Dean’s presidential campaign, Trippi’s vision of using the Internet to connect directly with the campaign’s supporters changed the way all campaigns would be waged going forward. The Atlantic magazine says Trippi’s influence on Democratic Party politics has been profound and lasting.

Trippi currently serves as a senior strategist for several nonprofit and corporate clients, as well as a Senior Adviser to The Lincoln Project, where he is helping build a pro-democracy coalition to take on the authoritarian threat to our democracy. Trippi also serves as a Senior Advisor to Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.

Trippi was a senior strategist on Doug Jones's historic victory in Alabama, helping elect the first Democratic U.S. Senator in Alabama in 25 years. Trippi wrote the ads and helped build the campaign strategy which raised over $22 million online.

Trippi began his political career working on Edward M. Kennedy’s presidential campaign in 1980. Since then, he has led efforts on a number of presidential, gubernatorial, senate, and congressional campaigns. Trippi was responsible for groundbreaking media strategies that helped elect Ro Khanna,, Mark Takano, Seth Moulton, and Kweisi Mfume, among others. He was also the media consultant and senior strategist behind California Governor Jerry Brown's historic come-from-behind victory in 2010 despite being outspent 4:1.

In addition to his political work, 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.com, Toyota, DaimlerChrysler, SES Americom, Corning, LabCorp, IBM, Lionsgate Films, BestBuy, and the Baltimore Orioles.

Trippi is the host of the podcast "That Trippi Show" and the author of “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Democracy, the Internet and the Overthrow of Everything,” the story of how his revolutionary use of the Internet combined with an impassioned, contagious desire to overturn politics-as-usual grew into a national grassroots movement – and changed the face of American politics forever.

A key figure in several Presidential campaigns, Trippi has served as a political commentator and analyst for MSNBC/NBC, CBS, FOX and CNN.