Keith Edwards (media personality)

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Keith Edwards
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Keith Edwards interviewing Governor Tim Walz
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Years active2018–present

Keith Edwards is an American media personality and political strategist and commentator known for his work in political communications and YouTube political commentary. [1] [2]

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Career

A former Detroit beauty salon worker, Edwards relocated to New York in 2005 and ended up in television production, working on such reality shows as The Real Housewives of Miami and Wicked Single . [1]

In 2019, he moved from production to political strategy co-ordination, joining the communications team of New York city council speaker, Corey Johnson. [2]

In 2020, he worked on Michael Bloomberg's 2020 United States presidential campaign. He was later appointed the Director of Communications for The Lincoln Project. [1] [3] [4] The Lincoln Project are Republicans who stood against Donald Trump in the 2020 and 2024 United States presidential elections. [3] [5] [6] He led the anti-Trump ads from fellow Republicans. [7] [8] [9] Edwards was profiled on CBS's 60 Minutes about this work. [10]

Following the 2020 election, Edwards later served as a senior digital advisor for Jon Ossoff's senate campaign in Georgia, [11] and then in 2022, he was Communications Director for Nikki Fried’s gubernatorial campaign in Florida. [12] [13] He has since interviewed Michigan state senator Mallory McMorrow, [11] California Senator Adam Schiff and U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg. He also writes a newsletter on Substack titled No Lies Detected. [14]

Edwards was named by Wired as one of the influencers shaping the 2024 election, [15] and was among the group of influencers invited to attend the State of the Union briefing at the White House by Joe Biden. [16] He was one of 200 influencers invited to the 2024 Democratic National Convention. [17] [18] His work and analysis has been cited in outlets including The Washington Post , Washington Blade , CNN , The New Yorker, CBS News, Newsweek, and New York Magazine. [19] [20] [1]

In 2024, he created a political commentary YouTube channel, which has 1 million subscribers as of October 2025. The channel provides daily news updates with commentary and contains interviews with figures such as Representative Ro Khanna, Donald Trump's niece Mary L. Trump and Texas Democratic state representative and pastor James Talarico.

Filmography

YearFilmFunctioned as
2011 The Real Housewives of Miami
2013 Wicked Single

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "How The Lincoln Project Keeps Going Viral". Newsweek . 2020-10-31. Retrieved 2025-08-09.
  2. 1 2 "The Man Behind The Lincoln Project's Viral Social Media, Keith Edwards - 60 Minutes". CBS News . October 11, 2020. Retrieved October 14, 2025.
  3. 1 2 Williams, Paige (2020-10-05). "Inside the Lincoln Project's War with Trump". The New Yorker . ISSN   0028-792X . Retrieved 2025-08-09.
  4. ↑ "The Lincoln Project's Social Guru Keith Edwards on Going Viral". Black In America. Retrieved 2025-08-09.
  5. ↑ Williams, Paige (2020-10-05). "Inside the Lincoln Project's War Against Trump". The New Yorker . ISSN   0028-792X . Retrieved 2025-08-09.
  6. ↑ "How Anti-Trump Republicans Got Into His Head Led by Keith Edwards. It Was Easy". NBC News . 2020-07-06. Retrieved 2025-08-09.
  7. ↑ "Disillusioned Republicans take on Trump with viral negative campaign ads". France 24 . 2020-07-22. Retrieved 2025-08-09.
  8. ↑ "Lincoln Project set to launch new Facebook attack on Trump". The Hill . 2020-09-03. Archived from the original on 2023-12-31. Retrieved 2025-08-09.
  9. ↑ "Watch the Anti-Trump Ad by Keith Edwards ABC11 Deemed Too "Inflammatory" for Local Viewers". INDY Week . 2020-06-02. Retrieved 2025-08-09.
  10. ↑ Ritholtz, Barry (2020-10-12). "60 Minutes on The Lincoln Project". The Big Picture. Retrieved 2025-08-09.
  11. 1 2 "Lincoln Project, Ossoff campaign director Keith Edwards may have violated campaign finance laws: watchdog". Fox News . 2021-02-26. Retrieved 2025-08-09.
  12. ↑ Ogles, Jacob (2022-03-14). "Nikki Fried campaign announces trio of key communications hires Keith Edwards, Benjamin Kirby & Caroline Korba". Florida Politics. Retrieved 2025-08-09.
  13. ↑ "Keith Edwards Tapped As Fried Campaign's New Communication Director". The Capitolist . 2022-03-14. Archived from the original on 2025-06-21. Retrieved 2025-08-09.
  14. ↑ "No Lies Detected | Keith Edwards". Substack . Retrieved 2025-11-06.
  15. ↑ "A Visual Guide to the Influencers Shaping the 2024 Election". Wired . ISSN   1059-1028 . Retrieved 2025-08-13.
  16. ↑ "Biden Mingled with Gen-Z Influencers at State of the Union Watch Party". TMZ . 2024-03-08. Retrieved 2025-08-13.
  17. ↑ "Meta Turns Its Back On Politics Again, Angering News Creators". Washington Post . 2024-02-10. Retrieved 2025-11-06.
  18. ↑ "Instagram accidentally activates setting to limit political content ahead of first Biden-Trump debate". 2024-06-24. Retrieved 2025-11-06.
  19. ↑ "Lincoln Project's Avowed Ignorance of Weaver Texts Undercut by Leaked Internal Talks". Washington Blade . 2021-02-09. Retrieved 2025-08-09.
  20. ↑ "Seven Bleak Takeaways from Showtime's 'The Lincoln Project' Miniseries". The Washington Post . 2022-10-07. ISSN   0190-8286 . Retrieved 2025-08-09.
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