Meet Chris

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Chris is a national political consultant with the proven ability to recognize strategic opportunities and fully capitalize on them with successful execution. For more than twenty years, Chris has pursued political and policy objectives that originate at the state level but quickly become national in scope and impact. This unusual path shapes his view of American politics today and benefits clients who seek something different in a political consultant. Here are just two strategic successes that Chris achieved along the way:

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In the late 1990s Chris was instrumental in the formation and growth of the Republicans Attorneys General Association, seeing the emerging role that state attorneys general were playing on national issues. Building on that success, Chris was a driving force in the founding of the Republican State Leadership Committee in 2002. Both of these early successes laid the foundation for REDMAP in 2010 and the nation’s first majority of Republican Attorneys General by 2014. 

In 2010, Chris served as the Executive Director of the REDMAP Project at the Republican State Leadership Committee. Chris directed over $20 million in expenditures in a strategic effort to win Republican control of state legislatures immediately prior to the decennial redrawing of Congressional district lines. Under Chris’s leadership, REDMAP resulted in the Republican pick-up of twenty legislative chambers and a net gain in over 700 state legislative seats- setting a record for any political party in U.S. history. REDMAP is widely credited with providing a strategic advantage in the 2012 Congressional elections and subsequent cycles.

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In 2016, Chris served as a consultant to the Judicial Crisis Network’s successful multimillion-dollar campaign, engaging conservatives to urge Senate Republicans to let the 2016 presidential election decide who should appoint the next Supreme Court Justice. At that time, a vacancy existed due to Justice Scalia’s sudden passing. The Senate did not act on the nomination of Merrick Garland. Chris later served as a consultant advising the campaign to build public support for the successful confirmation of Justice Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court in 2017. Together these two efforts prevented Democrats from creating, in the words of the New York Times, “the most liberal majority in 50 years on the Supreme Court.”

Then in 2018, Jankowski was a lead consultant to the outside issue campaign that pressured incumbent “Red State” Democratic Senators to support the nomination of Justice Kavanaugh and rallied national public support for Justice Kavanaugh’s confirmation in what was one of the most bitter confirmation fights ever seen. These unprecedented efforts, with almost $30 million spent, helped create a new majority on the Court.

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