Meet The Telugu Guy Who Is Behind Trump's Successful Campaign For The Presidential Office!

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Meet The Telugu Guy Who Is Behind Trump's Successful Campaign For The Presidential Office!

Congratulations to Donald Trump, the 45th president of The United States Of America. Not many people know that a Telugu guy is one of the core members of Trump's successful presidential campaign. Meet Avinash Iragavarapu, executive director for the Arizona Republican Party.

Avinash is from Kovvuru, West Godavari and graduated in Electrical Engineering and MS from IIM-Lucknow. His Grand Father was involved in politics at a local level and since childhood, he began developing an interest in the field. Avinash's passion for politics sustained even after he pursued his MBA from IIM-Lucknow and took up a corporate job at HCL. In the summer of 2014, he needed downtime after overseeing campaigns on behalf of the YSR Congress Party in Andhra Pradesh. By then, he was building electorate data files from the ground up, organizing hundreds of campaign field workers, and refining messages to target diverse constituencies.

After elections there, around late June 2014, he flew to Arizona to visit his wife. She had attended college in the U.S., and at the time was living in Chandler while working at Intel. They were preparing to return to India. A chance spotting of signboard about the American local elections led him to the state's former treasurer Doug Ducey who was vying for a Republican Party nomination. Avinash used his data crunching skills to predict a win for Ducey and he was right. His skills impressed state Republican party chairman Robert Graham who made him the party's data director.

Avinash, as part of the presidential elections, is now tasked with helping Trump carry Arizona, a state the Republicans have held since George W Bush wrested it in 2000. Trump went on to win the Arizona primaries, with 47 delegates and 47.1% of the votes. Today, the campaign has borne fruit and put Donald J Trump in the white house.