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Patrick Ruffini

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Patrick Ruffini
Born1978 (age 46–47)
EducationUniversity of Pennsylvania (BA)
Political partyRepublican

Patrick Ruffini[1] is a Republican Party pollster and political strategist in the United States.[2] He founded Engage, LLC, a Washington, D.C.–based political media firm, and now runs the political research and intelligence firm, Echelon Insights.[3]

Early life and education

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Ruffini grew up in France, Italy, and Greenwich, Connecticut, and graduated in 1996 from Greenwich High School.[4][5] He is a 2000 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, and currently resides in the Washington, D.C. suburbs.[1][6]

Career

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Ruffini began blogging in 2001, and has been a front-page contributor for RedState and Townhall.com. In the 2004 election, Ruffini served as webmaster for the Bush-Cheney campaign. Following the 2008 election, Ruffini co-authored the Rebuild the Party platform for Republican renewal.[7]

From 2005 to 2007, Ruffini served as eCampaign Director at the Republican National Committee (RNC).[8]

In 2007, Ruffini founded Engage, LLC, a political media firm.[9]

In 2008, he co-founded The Next Right, a forum for the youth conservative movement.[8] Reihan Salam wrote in Atlantic in 2008 that Ruffini "looks poised to become one of the most influential Republican political strategists of his generation."[10] He has authored a monthly "Digital Democracy" column for Townhall magazine, written for National Review, and appeared as a political analyst on Fox News Channel and C-SPAN's Washington Journal. Ruffini's analysis of emerging political trends has also appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, CNN, PBS MediaShift, and Newsweek.[11][self-published source?]

In 2009, Ruffini and Engage helped develop the online political strategy for the Bob McDonnell campaign, who won the 2009 Virginia gubernatorial election.[12] In 2010, Ruffini assisted on the Senate campaign of Scott Brown in the Massachusetts special election.[13][14]

In 2013, he was a signatory to an amicus curiae brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage in the United States during the Hollingsworth v. Perry case.[15]

Policy Views

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In January 2021, in the afternoon of the Capitol insurrection, Ruffini tweeted: "Impeach and remove. This is not about the next 14 days. It’s an insurance policy against people forgetting (they will) and definitively closing the door on any comeback bid in 2024."[16] Later on he suggested that impeachment would have been the way for Republicans to "take a united stand against Trump, and to chart a different course without him."[17]

In January 2025, Ruffini suggested in a tweet that the Trump administration goes after the DSM-5: "It should be a policy goal to end all the fake autism/ADHD diagnoses that are infantalizing our kids.[18]"

Works

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Articles

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  • Ruffini, Patrick (January 20, 2012). "Beyond SOPA: A New Birth of Internet Freedom". Huffington Post. Retrieved April 4, 2012.
  • Ruffini, Patrick (March 13, 2012). "Unleash America's Grassroots Investors With Crowdfunding". Huffington Post. Retrieved April 4, 2012.

Books

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Patrick Ruffini". Washington Post. Archived from the original on March 9, 2016. Retrieved April 4, 2012.
  2. ^ Harnden, Toby (January 11, 2010). "The most influential US conservatives: 100-81". The Telegraph. Retrieved April 4, 2012.
  3. ^ "New Firm Aims To Fix The Chronic Republican Problem Of Bad Polling". BuzzFeed News. June 18, 2014.
  4. ^ Lightman, David (March 24, 1993). Constituents Cool To Clinton's Budget, Hartford Courant (report on 14-year-old Ruffini speaking at town hall in Greenwich for Congressman Chris Shays, criticizing the British health care system)
  5. ^ "Campaign '96 - Web site of the week". The Spokesman-Review. August 4, 1996.
  6. ^ Edsall, Thomas B. (September 23, 2008). "Rising Conservative Star Patrick Ruffini Riles The Right". Huffington Post. Retrieved April 4, 2012.
  7. ^ Salam, Reihan (October 2008). Planting the Rightroots. The Atlantic. Retrieved on October 31, 2010.
  8. ^ a b Campaigns & Elections | Connecting all players in the world of politics. Politicsmagazine.com. Retrieved on October 31, 2010. Archived April 26, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ "About Engage". Engage LLC (Official website). Retrieved April 4, 2012.
  10. ^ "Planting the Rightroots". The Atlantic. October 2008.
  11. ^ "Patrick Ruffini". Engage DC. Retrieved April 4, 2012.
  12. ^ Judd, Nick (January 7, 2010). Springtime for Republican Political Technology?. TechPresident.com. Retrieved on October 31, 2010.
  13. ^ Ruffini, Patrick. (January 21, 2010). Lessons of the Mass. revolt: Feel the anger. NYPOST.com. Retrieved on October 31, 2010.
  14. ^ Salam, Reihan (January 20, 2010). Patrick Ruffini Matters, National Review
  15. ^ Avlon, John (February 28, 2013). "The Pro-Freedom Republicans Are Coming: 131 Sign Gay Marriage Brief". The Daily Beast. Retrieved August 7, 2019.
  16. ^ Patrick Ruffini [@PatrickRuffini] (January 6, 2021). "Impeach and remove. This is not about the next 14 days. It's an insurance policy against people forgetting (they will) and definitively closing the door on any comeback bid in 2024" (Tweet). Archived from the original on January 29, 2025 – via Twitter. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; January 30, 2025 suggested (help)
  17. ^ Ball, Molly (January 13, 2021). "Impeachment Was the GOP's Last Chance to Quit Donald Trump". Archived from the original on January 30, 2025.
  18. ^ Patrick Ruffini [@PatrickRuffini] (January 25, 2025). "The next target after DEI should be the DSM-5. It should be a policy goal to end all the fake autism/ADHD diagnoses that are infantalizing our kids" (Tweet). Archived from the original on January 27, 2025 – via Twitter.

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