Mike Madrid

Mike Madrid is an American political strategist, campaign manager, and political commentator. A member of the Republican Party, he was press secretary for former Republican leader of the California Assembly Rod Pacheco, as well as the political director for the California Republican Party. He has provided commentary to various publications with regards to changing trends, voting behaviors, and communication strategies geared towards the Latino vote.

Madrid was a fellow for the Unruh Institute of Politics at the University of Southern California (USC), teaching as an adjunct lecturer on Race, Class, and Partisanship at the USC Center for the Political Future in 2019. He also served as a senior fellow and lectured at the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine. He was a co-founder of the Lincoln Project in 2019 before leaving the group in December 2020.