page_title: Steve Munisteri
section_title: 2015-present
hierarchical_section_title: Steve Munisteri / Texas GOP chairman / 2015-present
caption_attribution_description: English: Steve Munisteri at the National Pachyderm Convention at the Galveston Island Convention Center in Galveston, Texas on September 7, 2019 Español: Steve Munisteri en la Convención Nacional de Paquidermo en el Centro de Convenciones de Galveston Island en Galveston, Texas, el 7 de septiembre de 2019
context_page_description: Stephen Peter Munisteri is a retired attorney from Houston, Texas, who from 2010 to 2015 was chairman of the Republican Party of Texas. In 2016 he joined the Rand Paul for President Campaign.
  In 2017, Steve was appointed to the White House staff as Deputy Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy Director of the Office of Public Liaison.
  Steve Munisteri was elected chairman at the state convention held in Dallas on June 13, 2010, when he unseated Cathie Adams, the wife of a Dallas chiropractor, who had held the position for only eight months. He is the first challenger in modern Texas Republican history to defeat a sitting incumbent for the position of state chairman. Early in his political career, Munisteri served as state chairman of the Texas Chapter of Young Americans for Freedom and founded the Young Conservatives of Texas in 1980.
  Munisteri stepped down as party chairman to join U.S. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky as a senior advisor to Paul's 2016 presidential campaign.
context_section_description: In 2015, Munisteri announced he would be joining Senator Rand Paul's team of senior advisors. According to the Republican Party of Texas his resignation is effective March 7, 2015.  In an official statement explaining his reasoning behind the decision Munisteri writes: 
  Today I informed the SREC that I will be stepping down on March 7th. I have done so, in part, in order to accept the position of Senior Advisor to Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky. Senator Paul shares my vision of promoting the conservative values of individual freedom, limited government, a strong national defense, and defense of the Constitution in each and every community in our country.
   
  Munisteri said he's supporting Paul, in part because of the Kentucky Republican's strategy to court nontraditional GOP voters, like African-Americans and young people.
  On March 7, 2015, Munisteri presided over his last meeting of the SREC and provided a final report as to the condition of the party during his term. He also provided a more detailed report in writing to supporters of the party. He reported that he was turning over the chairmanship with $959,514 cash on hand plus $148,175 in pledges coming in. He reported that all liabilities were paid to $0. He also reported that during his tenure as Chairman, the RPT collected $22,839,611 including $7,798,117 in 2014 alone. He reported that as of the date he was stepping down there were 3,660 Republican officeholders across the state, totaling approximately 67% of all offices in Texas. This represented a 1,190 Republican officeholder increase as compared to the time he took over the Chairmanship. He also noted that in 2008 the party had only held 45% of the offices across the state.
  He also provided a summary of the party's Victory and field operations. He reported that during his tenure, the RPT sent out 10,201,811 pieces of mail and made 8,622,336 phone calls. In 2014, RPT volunteers also knocked on over half a million doors. He noted that during his term, Republicans set the record for the most number of Republicans in the State House at 102, tied the record for most number of State Senators at 20, and set the record for the most Republican Congressmen at 25. The day before he resigned, the RPT also announced, for the second time, that the party had successfully filled all 254 county chair seats.
  Munisteri was an at-large delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Texas. Munisteri was one of 48 delegates from Texas bound by state party rules to support Donald Trump at the convention. As of July 13, 2016, Trump had approximately 1,542 delegates. The winner of the Republican nomination needed the support of 1,237 delegates. Trump formally won the nomination on July 19, 2016 and  the Presidential election of 2016.
  Munisteri served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Director for the Office of Public Liaison in Trump Administration.
caption: Steve Munisteri in Galveston, Texas on September 7, 2019.
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