Cole Smith Email & Phone Number

United States

West Palm Beach, Florida, United States

• Leading the day-to-day operations of the War Room, managing the Deputy Directors and Analysts
• Collaborating with Research and Communications Directors to define long term strategy for the RNC Research and Communications teams, including preparing for the 2024 Presidential election
• Coordinating with the Rapid Response team to promote Republican Party messaging through various channels, including email, Twitter and YouTube

• Managed two War Room Analysts on the evening shift for a minimum of eight hours per day
• Produced daily schedules of prominent Democratic and Administration officials to monitor Administration andcampaign events, then used those events to create clips posted on social media that have been viewed millions.
• Participated substantively in rapid response strategies to breaking and developing news stories
• Tracked developments on Capitol Hill, including legislation, majority and minority party reactions, and mediabiases to breaking news
• Assisted in the monitoring of Congressional hearings to ensure rapid response to developing legislation,narratives, and other hearing topics
• Assisted in the monitoring of over 100 House, Senate, and Gubernatorial debates for the 2022 midterm election

• Tracked developing news, alerted news articles, tweets, and television transcripts of prominent Members of Congress and Administration officials to a variety of distribution lists reaching over one thousand people
• Created and distributed multiple daily products, including media matrices, travel coverage for prominent government officials, and television and network roundups of the day’s news coverage
• Provided the Trump White House with daily deliverables, such as cable news summaries and pro-Administrationnetwork chyrons
• Coordinated with the RNC Research and Press teams to develop rapid response strategies to breaking news
• Cut, edited, and uploaded clips that have been viewed millions of times across YouTube and Twitter that have assisted GOP messaging

• Communicated with constituents over the phone and established various lanes for incoming traffic: a focus on service to solve relevant problems or direct, with follow up, for casework or questions, or persuasive.
• Participated in various briefings and prepared relevant memos for staff
• Assisted on staff-directed assignments, such as tracking floor votes or researching upcoming bills
• Ensured customer service satisfaction, including greeting anyone who enters the office, as well as providing tours of the Capitol

Morgantown, West Virginia

• Assisted international students studying at West Virginia University with problems they had with the University or living in America
• Supported senior faculty members with daily tasks and long-term projects
• Supported international students having difficulty with obtaining proper documentation to travel from and return to the U.S., referred anyone who walked in to the appropriate office
• Provided other general administrative support such as sending documents to other University offices, filing documents for faculty, and maintaining a clean front office