Trump 2020 campaign manager takes sides in Ohio’s GOP Senate showdown

EXCLUSIVE – Invoice Stepien, who served as former President Donald Trump’s marketing campaign supervisor through the summer season and autumn of 2020, is leaping into Ohio’s crowded and contentious Republican Senate major within the race to succeed retiring GOP Sen. Rob Portman.

Fox Information realized on Monday that Stepien is becoming a member of Mike Gibbons’ Senate marketing campaign as a senior adviser. 

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Gibbons, a Cleveland entrepreneur, actual property developer, and funding banker and a 2018 Ohio Republican Senate candidate, is likely one of the main candidates in a GOP race that’s develop into a battle by a lot of the main contenders to showcase their help for Donald Trump hopes of securing the previous president’s endorsement.

Stepien, who steered former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s profitable gubernatorial election and reelection campaigns, served as nationwide area director on Trump’s 2016 presidential marketing campaign, political director on the Trump White Home, and took over because the then-president’s marketing campaign supervisor in June 2020. He’s a founding associate of Nationwide Public Affairs, a political consulting agency.

Justin Clark, one other founding associate of Nationwide Public Affairs and a deputy marketing campaign supervisor on Trump’s 2020 reelection marketing campaign, can also be becoming a member of the Gibbons crew. The additions of Stepien and Clark include lower than three months to go till Ohio’s Could 3 major.

“Nationwide Public Affairs is proud to affix the Gibbons marketing campaign. Mike Gibbons has the momentum within the Ohio Senate race and is dedicated to the America First agenda and MAGA motion. Not solely is Mike poised to win the first, however he can be a wonderful Senator for the good state of Ohio,” Stepien advised Fox Information in a press release.

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It’s a little bit of a Trump marketing campaign reunion, as Stepien and Clark will now crew up with longtime GOP guide Mike Biundo in advising Gibbons. Biundo, who has served as a senior adviser to Gibbons since he launched his marketing campaign final April, labored with Stepien and Clark on Trump’s 2016 normal election marketing campaign.

“We’re excited to have Invoice and Justin as a part of our crew. Having labored with them each on Trump’s 2016 marketing campaign, I do know first-hand that their recommendation and experience can be invaluable as we transfer into the ultimate stretch of the first. We have now momentum on our aspect and look ahead to being victorious on Could 3,” Biundo stated.

A few latest inner marketing campaign polls recommend that Gibbons is both in first or second place within the Republican major race. Gibbons has already invested $11.4 million of his personal cash into his marketing campaign. A supply near Gibbons’ orbit says that now that the candidate feels his Senate bid is viable, he’s reaching out to pals and colleagues within the Republican donor class for investments in his marketing campaign.

The opposite main contenders within the packed area of GOP Senate contenders consists of former Ohio treasurer and former two-time Senate candidate Josh Mandel; former Ohio GOP chair Jane Timken; best-selling writer and enterprise capitalist J.D. Vance, and Ohio state Sen. Matt Dolan, whose household owns Main League Baseball’s Cleveland Guardians.

Bernie Moreno, a profitable Cleveland-based businessman and luxurious auto dealership big, suspended his marketing campaign late final week after requesting and holding a personal assembly with Trump. Moreno had shelled out over $4 million of his personal cash the previous two months to run TV commercials to attempt to enhance his Senate bid, 

As with different high-profile statewide Republican major battles throughout the nation within the 2022 election cycle, Trump marketing campaign and White Home alumni are on totally different sides within the Ohio race.

Kellyanne Conway, who steered Trump’s 2016 normal election marketing campaign and served as a senior counselor within the Trump White Home, was a prime adviser on Moreno’s marketing campaign. Trump marketing campaign veteran Andy Surabian is advising Vance’s marketing campaign and Trump 2016 and 2020 pollster Tony Fabrizio is doing surveys for Vance’s Senate bid.