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Michael Murphy

Murphy is one of the Republican Party’s most successful political media consultants. Murphy has been called a "media master" by Fortune magazine, the GOP’s “hottest media consultant” by Newsweek, and the leader of a “new breed” of campaign consultants by Congressional Quarterly.

Murphy has handled strategy and advertising for more than 26 successful senatorial and gubernatorial campaigns, including the successful gubernatorial races of Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, John Engler, Tommy Thompson, Christie Whitman, Dirk Kempthorne and Terry Branstad, as well as the successful Senatorial races of Lamar Alexander, Slade Gorton, Spence Abraham, Jeff Sessions, Dirk Kempthorne, Steve Symms, Paul Coverdell and Larry Pressler. In 2000, Murphy served as senior strategist for Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign. In 2003 Murphy was senior strategist for Arnold Schwarzenegger’s historic election as Governor of California.

In addition to his campaign work, Murphy advises several Fortune 500 corporations and leading interest groups. He has advised leaders in five foreign countries. He is a founding partner in the Washington, D.C.-based public policy management firm of DC Navigators.

Murphy is a frequent writer for the Weekly Standard and writes and performs radio commentary for National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.” Murphy has appeared on “Meet the Press,” CNN’s “The Capital Gang,” “Crossfire,” “Hardball,” “Face the Nation” and “The News Hour with Jim Lehrer.” In 2001 he was an Institute of Politics Fellow at Harvard’s JFK School of Government.