Tim Murtaugh was the communications director for the entire 2020 Trump reelection campaign, the most-watched political campaign in world history, representing the culmination of a twenty-year career in state and national politics. Now a sought-after and successful political consultant, Murtaugh has worked for candidates and office holders, in official positions and for national political committees, after beginning his career as a local radio and television reporter in Virginia. He is an alcoholic in recovery who took his last drink on May 16, 2015. The grandson of the late Pittsburgh Pirates manager Danny Murtaugh, he is a graduate of Temple University and lives in Leesburg, Virginia, with his wife and two young sons.