Steve Schmidt
During his time as a political campaign staff member and adviser, Steve Schmidt built a career navigating the demanding world of American electoral and corporate strategy.
Born on September 28, 1970, in North Plainfield, Schmidt attended North Plainfield High School before going on to study at the University of Delaware. In his youth he earned the Eagle Scout award, the highest rank in the Boy Scouts of America program. Those early years in New Jersey shaped the foundation of a life that would be spent largely in the orbit of American political life.
As a citizen of the United States, Schmidt went on to work as a political campaign staff member, a political adviser, and a politician, developing a career that crossed both campaign trail work and broader corporate strategy. His roles placed him at the intersection of electoral politics and strategic communications, areas that define the work of an American political and corporate strategist — the description most closely attached to his professional identity.
Schmidt's career reflects the kind of trajectory common to those who move between campaign operations, advisory roles, and public commentary. Having come up through formal education at the University of Delaware and carrying the Eagle Scout distinction from his earlier years, he built a working life centered on political and corporate strategy in the United States. That combination of campaign staffing, political advising, and strategic work across both the political and corporate worlds has remained central to how he operates as a professional.
Quotes by Steve Schmidt
It's not just that there's no other spokesperson for the executive seat of power in a democratic republic anywhere in the world where you see that type of lying. It's that there's never been a spokesman for the executive seat in power who is such a prolific liar as Sarah Sanders.
Trump makes no pretense about being the commander in chief of all of the country, being president of all of the people, including the people who voted against him. He is, in effect, a tribal chieftain who has declared war on half of the country.
I profoundly believe that the Democratic Party is the only vehicle we have to put a check on Donald Trump.
It's part of the mythology now in the Republican Party that there's widespread voter fraud all across the country. In fact, there's not.
Trump is what the Russians call a useful idiot, someone in service to the Russian Federation, either unwitting or wittingly.
To see the Republican Party break up the way it has to lose its moral compass it is tragic, it's tragic for me personally, but I won't be part of it. I won't share a party label with people who think it's all right to put babies in internment camps.
I think there are really serious problems in this country and I think politics in a lot of ways is failing the country.
I think it's important to understand the history of the Republican Party. It was founded in 1854 because of the moral collapse of the Whig Party, specifically around the question of race and the expansion of slavery into the western territories.