Influencers
Learn about influencers in your state
Currently featuring: President Donald Trump transition team and potential appointees
After Donald Trump was elected president on November 8, 2016, the work of filling almost 4,000 positions in the federal government got underway. To vet, interview, and recommend individuals for these roles, Trump turned to his transition team, a group of around 100 aides, policy experts, government affairs officials, and former government officials. Our pages track the individuals helping to assemble Trump's staff during the transition of power, and the individuals who were considered as potential high-level administration appointments during the transition of power.
The Influencers project aims to profile the influencers of American politics. Influencers help elect candidates, achieve policy change, create ideological change and affect popular perception. American politics is incomplete if solely focused on elected officials. In many cases, activists, lobbyists, philanthropists, working through a range of nonprofit charitable organizations, have championed various sides of a cause for years. The activity of influencers, and their impact, can be felt on the national, state or local level, and even in certain policy sectors.
Our mission is to equalize and elevate coverage of political influencers across the American political spectrum, ensuring readers have an equal access to neutral and comprehensive information about the influencers of elected officials.
- For a list of all pages see the Influencers index
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