{{short description|American journalist and political analyst (born 1973)}} {{use American English|date=November 2024}} {{use mdy dates|date=November 2024}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Sean Trende |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1973|1|6}} |birth_place = |death_date = |death_place = |education = [[Yale University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[Duke University]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]], [[Juris Doctor|JD]])<br>[[Ohio State University]] ([[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]]) }} '''Sean P. Trende''' (born January 6, 1973) is an American journalist and [[political analyst]] specializing in American elections analysis. He is a Senior Elections Analyst at [[RealClearPolitics]]. He has regularly appeared as a guest on [[Fox News]], [[NPR]]’s ''[[All Things Considered]]'', and [[CNN Radio]]. The ''[[Washington Times]]'' calls him "a premier political number cruncher". He is the author of ''Lost Majority'', published by [[Palgrave Macmillan]].<ref>[https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/6/misusing-political-trend-lines/ Review of ''Lost Majority''], ''[[Washington Times]]'', March 6, 2012.</ref> On September 12, 2012, ''National Journal'' announced that Trende would be a co-author of the 2014 ''[[Almanac of American Politics]]''.<ref name="NJ2012">{{cite web|title=National Journal Announces Author Additions to 2014 Almanac of American Politics|url=http://www.nationaljournal.com/press-room/national-journal-announces-author-additions-to-2014-almanac-of-american-politics-20120921|work=National Journal|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120923045027/http://www.nationaljournal.com/press-room/national-journal-announces-author-additions-to-2014-almanac-of-american-politics-20120921|archive-date=2012-09-23|date=21 September 2012}}</ref>
Trende holds a B.A. degree from [[Yale University]], an [[Master of Arts|M.A.]] in [[political science]], a [[Juris doctor|J.D.]] from [[Duke University]], a masters in applied statistics and a PhD from [[Ohio State University|The Ohio State University]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Trende |first=Sean |date=Jan 7, 2025 |title=LinkedIn |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/sean-trende-0449a25/details/education/ |access-date=Jan 7, 2025 |website=LinkedIn}}</ref> He practiced law for eight years at [[Kirkland & Ellis]] LLP and [[Hunton & Williams]] LLP before becoming a full-time political analyst.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/authors/sean_trende/|title=Sean Trende|publisher=RealClear Politics}}</ref> After living in [[Midlothian, Virginia|Midlothian]], [[Virginia]] with his wife and children, as of 2017 he lives in the Columbus, Ohio area and is working part-time as a professor at [[Ohio State University]].<ref>{{cite tweet |last=Trende |first=Sean |author-link=Sean Trende |user=SeanTrende |number=765536299206017026 |date=August 16, 2016 |title=@mmurraypolitics All I know is I live in Columbus, Ohio and haven't seen a single Donald Trump advertisement. |language=en |access-date=January 4, 2021}}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|date=July 2021}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://polisci.osu.edu/people/trende.3|title=Sean Trende}}</ref><ref>[http://us.macmillan.com/authordetails.aspx?authorname=seantrende Sean Trende biography] by Macmillan.</ref>
In 2021, Trende was selected as one of two redistricting [[special master]]s by the [[Supreme Court of Virginia]], after it was tasked with redrawing [[Virginia's congressional districts|the state's congressional]] and legislative districts following the [[2020 United States census]]. Republican legislative leaders [[Tommy Norment]] and [[Todd Gilbert]] had included Trende as part of a replacement list of nominees for the post, after the three nominees on their initial list were all disqualified by the Court for suspected partisanship.<ref>{{cite web|title=Virginia Supreme Court picks two experts to assist in redistricting; wants proposed maps in 30 days|url=https://richmond.com/news/state-and-regional/virginia-supreme-court-picks-two-experts-to-assist-in-redistricting-wants-proposed-maps-in-30/article_123fe490-1de5-5373-895b-90feb3a31ad0.html|last1=Green|first1=Frank|last2=Leonor|first2=Mel|date=November 19, 2021|access-date=December 18, 2021|newspaper=[[Richmond Times-Dispatch]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Four new redistricting special master nominees forwarded to Virginia Supreme Court for state redistricting|url=https://richmond.com/news/state-and-regional/four-new-redistricting-special-master-nominees-forwarded-to-virginia-supreme-court-for-state-redistricting/article_df7dca44-577b-597c-a16c-b22051e7fc87.html|last=Green|first=Frank|date=November 18, 2021|access-date=December 18, 2021|newspaper=[[Richmond Times-Dispatch]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Virginia Supreme Court rejects all three GOP nominees and one Democratic nominee to help redraw districts|url=https://richmond.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/virginia-supreme-court-rejects-all-three-gop-nominees-and-one-democratic-nominee-to-help-redraw/article_32faa25f-5d57-51a4-a81c-cf1839711d65.html|last1=Green|first1=Frank|last2=Leonor|first2=Mel|date=November 12, 2021|access-date=December 18, 2021|newspaper=[[Richmond Times-Dispatch]]}}</ref>
== References == {{reflist}}
== External links == * [https://online.wsj.com/home-page Sean Trende Articles] on ''RealClearPolitics''. * {{C-SPAN|64478}} * [http://www.realclearpolitics.com/authors/sean_trende/ Biography of Sean Trende at RealClearPolitics]
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