Who is Corey Lewandowski ?
Corey R. Lewandowski (/ˌluːənˈdaʊski/; born September 18, 1973) is an American political operative, lobbyist political commentator, and author who is politically associated primarily with Donald Trump. He was the first campaign manager of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, later becoming a political commentator for One America News Network (OANN), Fox News and CNN.
Prior to joining Trump’s campaign, Lewandowski worked on several campaigns, for a Congressman, worked for the conservative advocacy group Americans for Prosperity and was a lobbyist. He also held the position of Seasonal Marine Patrol Officer Trainee for approximately 3.5 years and successfully graduated the New Hampshire part-time Police Officer Academy. Lewandowski himself has run unsuccessfully for office twice, once in Massachusetts and once in New Hampshire. On December 21, 2016, Lewandowski co-founded Avenue Strategies, a lobbying firm in an office near the White House. He left the firm in May 2017.
On August 1, 2019, Lewandowski announced that he was “very seriously” considering seeking the Republican nomination to oppose incumbent Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen in the 2020 United States Senate election in New Hampshire. In January 2020, he ultimately decided not to run, while stating that he “would have won” had he run.
The day it was reported in September 2021 that he had made sexual advances toward a major Trump donor days earlier, a Trump spokesman said Lewandowski “will no longer be associated with Trump World.”
Lewandowski was raised in Lowell, Massachusetts. One of his grandfathers was a printer. He is of Polish and French-Canadian descent. Lewandowski graduated in 1991 from Lowell Catholic High School, a private, not-for-profit, college-preparatory school in Lowell.
In 1995, he graduated from the University of Massachusetts Lowell with a B.A. in political science. He received a master’s degree in political science from American University in Washington, DC, in 1997.