Daren Berringer

Daren has worked in local, congressional, gubernatorial, senate and presidential politics since 1995. Within those campaigns he has held the positions of media consultant, campaign manager, political director, field director and press secretary.

Some of the more notable roles Daren has played in the political arena were as the field and political director for the 2002 upset victory for Democratic Congressman Tim Holden who, as the result of redistricting, faced a 20-year incumbent congressman in which the Republican had a 60% to 40% voter registration edge. The campaign was rated by Roll Call as one of the best campaigns of 2002.

In 2003, Daren took on the position as state director of Michigan for the Dean for America presidential campaign, during which he was profiled by the Washington, D.C. based political online publication, The Hotline. Despite having no financial resources spent on commercial advertising, Governor Dean finished second and captured more delegates in Michigan to the 2004 Democratic National Convention than any other state.

Following the Dean for America campaign, Daren became the political director for the Democratic U.S. Senate campaign of Joe Hoeffel in Pennsylvania and was named to the 2004 Dream Team by the political website, PoliticsPA.com.

After joining Joe Trippi & Associates at the end of 2004, Daren worked pro bono in 2005 to assist in the building of the ONE Campaign and organizing their famed worldwide Live 8 concert series. This included the finale event in Edinburgh, Scotland as the run-up to the G8 Summit.

During the 2006 election cycle Daren served as the Senior Advisor and General Consultant to Patrick Murphy (PA 8th) and John Hall (NY 19th) in their upset victories over two highly-funded Republican incumbents. Both districts were historical Republican strongholds. Earlier in that year, Daren produced his first gubernatorial ad campaign that was rated as one of the Top 5 ads by The Hotline's WebAttic for the primary election season.

In 2007 Daren joined John Edwards' presidential campaign to serve as his National Field Director. While in that position, Daren implemented a thirty-two state program that built a Community Leadership base of traditional and non-traditional political activists—the first time any national campaign had conducted this message-moving and organizing operation. He also created an SMS (text messaging) organizing campaign that was featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and CNN. The innovative approach to voter communication also resulted in John Edwards for President being the first campaign in history to ever receive financial contributions via SMS, including a $2,300 FEC maximum donation. Daren transitioned back into his media consultant background as the campaign moved forward by creating concepts and producing advertising that focused on New Hampshire television markets.

Daren has also appeared as a guest on Fox News and MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews and has on-the-record experience with Roll Call, Campaigns & Elections, The New Republic, The New York Times, the Financial Times of London, The Wall Street Journal, Philadelphia Inquirer, Detroit Free Press and many other local news media outlets. In addition, Daren has been a guest lecturer at The Washington Center, Louisiana State University and Indiana University of Pennsylvania.