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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Charles Munoz, White House Liaison</font><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 3em; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Charles comes to the EPA from Nevada, where he served in key capacities for Americans for Prosperity. For the last two years, Charles served The Donald J. Trump campaign in several high level positions.</font></li></ul><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">https://ballotpedia.org/Charles_Munoz</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Charles Munoz</b>, a <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republican" title="Republican" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Republican</a> ground operative, was the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Nevada" title="Nevada" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Nevada</a> state director for <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Donald_Trump_presidential_campaign,2016" title="Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-announce_1-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Charles_Munoz#cite_note-announce-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup></font></p><table style="margin: 5px 9.53125px; border-width: 2px 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(255, 168, 18); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 168, 18); background: rgb(240, 240, 240);"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0em 1.1em 0.3em; width: 658.219px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Munoz joined the campaign in August 2015 to direct Trump's efforts in the Nevada Republican Caucuses and was named state director for the general election in July 2016.</font></li></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 0em 1.1em 0.3em; width: 658.219px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Munoz also directed Trump's primary election efforts in <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Arizona" title="Arizona" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Arizona</a>.</font></li></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 0em 1.1em 0.3em; width: 658.219px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">From 2010 to 2015, he worked for the Nevada chapter of <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Americans_for_Prosperity" title="Americans for Prosperity" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Americans for Prosperity</a>.</font></li></td></tr></tbody></table></div><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Career"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Career</font></span></h2><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: none; width: auto;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Americans_for_Prosperity"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Americans for Prosperity</font></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 2010, while still a student at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, Munoz helped to found the Nevada chapter of <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Americans_for_Prosperity" title="Americans for Prosperity" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Americans for Prosperity</a>, a <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Nonprofit_organization" title="Nonprofit organization" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">nonprofit organization</a> that focuses on promoting limited government policies.<sup id="cite_ref-guest_2-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Charles_Munoz#cite_note-guest-2" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[2]</a></sup> He initially worked as a Nevada field coordinator for the organization. In January 2011, Munoz spoke with the student newspaper at UNLV about his views on higher education funding, saying, "If you want a good college, you should have to pay for it</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">."</span><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Charles_Munoz#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During 2011, he was the Southern Nevada field coordinator for the organization, and he worked to host AFP-sponsored summits on a number of topics, including techniques for addressing higher education in the state.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Charles_Munoz#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup> In the 2012 election cycle, Munoz worked in get-out-the-vote efforts throughout Nevada to support turnout for <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republican" title="Republican" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Republican</a> presidential nominee <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Mitt_Romney" title="Mitt Romney" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Mitt Romney</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Charles_Munoz#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Munoz eventually became the deputy state director for AFP in Nevada.<sup id="cite_ref-guest_2-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Charles_Munoz#cite_note-guest-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Donald_Trump_presidential_campaign.2C_2016"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016</font></span></h2><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">See also: <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Donald_Trump_presidential_campaign,2016" title="Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016</a></font></i></dd></dl></dd></dl><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: none; width: auto;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Republican_Caucuses"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Republican Caucuses</font></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Munoz began working with Trump during the primary election season, serving as Trump's state director during the Nevada Republican Caucuses. A week before the caucuses, <i>The Guardian</i> reported that Trump "appears to be lagging behind his better organized competitors in reaching out to Nevada’s hard-to-corral caucus-goers."<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Charles_Munoz#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup> In December 2015, Munoz told <i>The Hill</i> that he was unconcerned about the caucus process, saying, "I would say this isn’t rocket science, just working really hard and having a passion for it. ... And so I just dug in, studied every single aspect of it, studied all the rules, all the, you know, the history of it, and just figured it out."<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Charles_Munoz#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup> Trump won the caucuses, taking all but two of Nevada's 17 counties, including heavy-populated Clark County where approximately three-quarters of the state's population resides.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Charles_Munoz#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: none; width: auto;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Arizona_primary"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Arizona primary</font></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Munoz also served as Trump's state director during the Arizona primary election.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Charles_Munoz#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup> Trump won the Arizona Republican primary with roughly 47 percent of the vote, carrying 14 of Arizona's 15 counties, narrowly losing Graham County in the southeastern part of the state to Cruz 40.2 to 40.1 percent. During the state convention for the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republican_Party_of_Arizona" title="Republican Party of Arizona" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Republican Party of Arizona</a>, former rival <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Ted_Cruz_presidential_campaign,2016" title="Ted Cruz presidential campaign, 2016" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Ted Cruz</a> picked up nearly all of the at-large delegates for the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republican_National_Convention,2016" title="Republican National Convention, 2016" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Republican National Convention</a>. Phoenix-area blog <i>Sonoran Alliance</i> released a video of Trump Arizona chair <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Jeff_DeWit" title="Jeff DeWit" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Jeff DeWit</a> berating Munoz and another staffer for failing to vet their slate of delegates.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Charles_Munoz#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: none; width: auto;"><span class="mw-headline" id="General_election"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">General election</font></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On July 18, 2016, Munoz was announced as the general election state director for Trump's campaign in Nevada.<sup id="cite_ref-announce_1-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Charles_Munoz#cite_note-announce-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Recent_news"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Recent news</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The link below is to the most recent stories in a Google news search for the terms '<b>Charles Munoz'.</b> These results are automatically generated from Google. 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