The US presidential election has come to an end and Donald Trump is all set to be the 45th President. In the thick of the action in Arizona, a state which voted for the tycoon is the campaign strategist and the executive director of the Arizona Republican party, Avinash Iragavarapu.
Avinash Iragavarapu is an MBA graduate from Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow. He joined the YSR Congress’s election campaign in Andhra Pradesh after quitting his job with HCL Technologies Ltd in New Delhi, report Business Standard.
Avinash’s wife works for Intel in Arizona and he went to meet her during the holidays in 2014.
The state of Arizona was going for polls to elect its governor. Avinash did his own research and polls chose Doug Ducey as his candidate for the primary and wrote to his campaign.
Ducey’s campaign made Avinash a part of itself and he used to do a lot of ‘data work and polling’, primarily identifying the areas where they could spend the money they raised to gain votes.
Arizona traditionally is a Republican leaning state. Ducey went on to win the primaries, and even the Arizona Gubernatorial election in November 2014, defeating Fred DuVal comfortably. Avinash’s data work was well praised by the Arizona GOP chairman Robert Graham.
The strategist isn’t your quintessential Trump supporter, in fact, far from it. Nor is he a donor to Trump’s super-PACs (political action committees). Heck, he can’t even vote in the US election. But he, like several million Americans, wanted to help Donald Trump ‘Make America Great Again’.
Iragavarapu’s rise within the Arizona GOP was a meteoric one. From being hired as the party’s data director, he was soon elevated to the ‘political director’ and later as executive director, all within a span of a year. The post puts him directly in charge of running the party’s campaigns in Arizona, across all its levels, including the general elections, congressional elections, senate races and even councils.
Avinash was tasked to help Donald Trump win Arizona, a state that has been a Republican stronghold since George Bush won it in 2000.
Donald Trump successfully won the state of Arizona and the 47 delegates that come with it.
“I have met Donald Trump personally. He knows I am from India. He’s a totally fine person, and he’s embraced me with open arms. He has only spoken out against illegal immigration,” says Avinash.
