David AxelrodSpeaker and Booking Agent Information

David Axelrod served as senior advisor to President Barack Obama and to the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition, as well as senior strategist to Barack Obama's historic campaign for the presidency in 2008 and his reelection in 2012. Today, he serves as director of the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago and as a senior political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC. In 2015, Axelrod began hosting a podcast titled The Axe Files, a series of in-depth discussions and interviews with various political figures. He also joined CNN as a senior political commentator in September of 2015. He was recently inducted into The American Association of Political Consultants’ Hall of Fame. Axelrod is also an author, having published a memoir, 2015's Believer: My Forty Years in Politics.

During his time at the White House, Axelrod was the Administration's most frequent presence on influential Sunday talk shows including NBC’s Meet the Press, ABC’s This Week, CBS’s Face the Nation, FOX News Sunday and CNN’s State of the Union. He also appeared several times on The Tonight Show, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Late Show with David Letterman.<

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