Weaver is among America’s most celebrated political consultants, an elite operative who knows how to orchestrate a big presidential campaign—most famously Senator John McCain’s Straight Talk Express in 2000. In fact, Weaver has had a hand in every presidential race since 1988, when, as a twentysomething, he helped ensure that George H.W. Bush won their mutual state of Texas. Even in 2004—when Weaver’s longtime rival Karl Rove kept him out of George W. Bush’s reelection campaign, essentially exiling Weaver from the GOP—he managed a way into the fray, briefly crossing party lines and advising Democratic candidate John Kerry.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/john-weaver-consultant-213273
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