Government | Politics | Lobbying 2025: CHRIS LACIVITA

Born in Pennsylvania and raised in Chesterfield County, Republican power player LaCivita is a former Marine, a Purple Heart recipient and one of a handful of insiders who has President Donald Trump’s ear, having run his 2024 presidential campaign as co-campaign manager.

LaCivita got his start as a GOP political strategist in the 1990s, working on George Allen’s successful congressional and gubernatorial campaigns.
In 2004, the Gulf War veteran became a media adviser to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a political organization that helped sink the presidential campaign of Democrat John Kerry and produced the term “swiftboating,” meaning an unfair or untrue political attack. During the Obama era,

LaCivita ran Republican congressional and state legislative campaigns.

In 2020, LaCivita joined the pro-Trump Preserve America PAC and later became chief strategist of Trump’s MAGA super PAC. After getting Trump re-elected, LaCivita chose to stay in the private sector. According to The Wall Street Journal, he is advising Sali Berisha, a former Albanian prime minister who faces corruption charges and has been sanctioned by the United States. He also is co-campaign manager for U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham.

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