Ed Rollins
Ed Rollins
Edward Rollinsis a Republican campaign consultant and advisor who has worked on several high-profile political campaigns in the United States. In 1983-84, he was National Campaign Director for the Reagan-Bush '84 campaign, winning 49 of 50 Electoral College States. In December 2007, he was named the national campaign chairman for the Mike Huckabee campaign for President. Rollins is currently the Co-Chairman of the pro Donald Trump Great America PAC...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth19 March 1943
CountryUnited States of America
I became a Republican in the summer of 1972. I was involved in running President Nixon's re-election campaign in California and became part of his administration at the start of his second term.
I think to a certain extent, Clinton may have expected as the senior president that Obama would've reached out to him and asked for his council; he's done that very little. So, I think the relationship has not been good over the years.
One of the reasons a strategist never sits in a stadium and gets caught up in the crowds - and never sits watching a debate in person - is because the vast majority of American voters watch these political events on television.
When the Republicans controlled the House from 1994 -2006, Democrats like Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Henry Waxman Charlie Rangel, John Conyers and Rahm Emanuel weren't saying we need to move right to win. They stuck to their philosophy. And they fought against Reagan and they fought against the Bushes. And eventually they did win.
The American economy is driven by small business. And there's nothing basically to create incentives for small businesses. We've done no tax reform. They're the highest-taxed group in the country. And corporations can go anywhere they want and do whatever they want. Small businesses have to stay...
By the time you get to year six, there's never a break . . . and you get tired. There's always a crisis. It wears you down. This has been a White House that hasn't really had much change at all. There is a fatigue factor that builds up. You sometimes don't see the crisis approaching. You're not as on guard as you once were.
Television is such a staple of modern society that for most voters, it's not real unless it's on the tube.
I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.
Someone like Adam Goodman, who knows Florida and is better than anybody in the business, wasn't being appreciated. We're professionals. We're doing the best we can, but if she doesn't want to take the advice, fine. We'll move on.
From my perspective, if getting 24 percent of the vote is a victory, than we probably need a new party chairman and we probably need a new thought process.
We've got to win them one at a time.
Katherine wasn't listening to us and didn't agree on the direction of the campaign.
I wasn't the first one out the door. I was the last one out the door and I did everything I could to hold it together.
You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising budget is big enough.