Mike Murphy

Mike Murphy is one of the Republican Party’s most successful political media consultants, having handled strategy and advertising for more than 26 successful gubernatorial and Senatorial campaigns. Murphy has been called a “media master” by Fortune magazine and the leader of a “new breed” of campaign consultants by Congressional Quarterly.

Murphy served as senior strategist for both John McCain’s first campaign for President in 2000 and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s historic election as Governor of California. Murphy has led successful campaigns for many GOP Governors and Senators including Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, Terry Branstad, Lamar Alexander, Jeff Sessions. Slade Gorton, Christie Whitman, Dirk Kempthorne, Tommy Thompson and John Engler. He has advised political leaders in six foreign countries.

A partner in the Washington DC based Revolution Agency, Murphy also advises several Fortune 500 corporations, leading funds and many of America’s largest trade associations, working with industries including insurance, technology, energy, financial services and commercial real estate.

Murphy is a longtime analyst for NBC News, a former columnist for TIME and hosts the popular podcast "Hacks on Tap" with his friend and Democratic colleague David Axelrod. Murphy is co-director of the Center for the Political Future at USC and serves on the boards of the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago and the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools. He is a former Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Murphy was born in Detroit, Michigan and attended the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Murphy also works as a writer/producer in the entertainment industry through his company High Lantern Pictures. He lives with his wife Tiffany and daughter in Los Angeles California.