About Us

Chris Hansen

PRESIDENT

Chris Hansen served as the executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee during the 2018 cycle. There he oversaw a national effort to protect and grow the Senate majority. During the 2018 cycle, the National Republican Senatorial Committee raised and spent more than $150,000,000 in a dozen states. For the first time in history the president’s party picked up US Senate seats in the same election in which the same party lost 30+ U.S. House seats.

Hansen began his career as a paid canvasser. He has gone on to serve as the campaign manager on eight campaigns and has implemented large-scale paid grassroots campaigns across the country, directly overseeing the canvassing of millions of homes over the course of his career.

During the 2014 cycle, Hansen was the campaign manager for Gardner for Senate. The Gardner for Senate campaign was badly outspent by Senator Mark Udall’s campaign and many pundits initially wrote off the chances of a Gardner victory. In addition to the funding disparity, the executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee launched what was called “The Bannock Street Project,” which was a plan to fund massive ground campaigns on behalf of their Democratic incumbents.

Reading the details of “The Bannock Street Project” in the New York Times, Hansen and his team took notice and designed a ground campaign bigger and more effective than what the Democrats were planning. The Gardner for Senate campaign canvassed well over 1,000,000 homes and defeated incumbent Democrat Senator Mark Udall in a blue state by 1.9%, or 39,000 votes. 

In the 2012 cycle, Hansen managed Congressman Coffman’s reelection campaign for CO-6. Congressman Coffman was redistricted from a very conservative district to a lean Democratic district designed by the Democrats who gerrymandered the lines to defeat him. Hansen took a leave of absence from the office of then Congressman Gardner to manage Coffman’s campaign. As a part of the campaign, Hansen designed and managed the paid canvassing effort that canvassed targeted voters in the entire district six times. On Election Day, Coffman won by less than 2%.

In the 2010 cycle, Hansen joined Gardner for Congress as the campaign manager. He oversaw the entire campaign including a critical paid canvassing effort in Larimer and Weld Counties. Gardner defeated incumbent Congresswoman Betsy Markey and Hansen joined his congressional staff as the chief of staff.

Allison Bedell

VICE PRESIDENT

Allison Bedell is the Vice President for Canvass America and has extensive experience building successful grassroots voter contact operations. Bedell is a graduate of Keene State College and is from Londonderry, New Hampshire, the first-in-the-nation presidential primary state where she started her career in politics.

During the 2018 election cycle, Bedell served as campaign manager for the successful re-election bid of Senator Deb Fischer (R-NE), delivering a 20 point victory. Previous to that she was the statewide field director for Senator Pat Toomey’s (R-PA) successful re-election in 2016.

Bedell was the deployment director for Jeb Bush’s campaign in the 2016 New Hampshire presidential primary where she developed an aggressive paid door-knocking plan and oversaw more than 300 volunteer deployments, hitting an unprecedented number of doors in the state.

In 2015, Bedell managed a successful county race in Northern Virginia and was a Republican National Committee Victory field staffer in New Hampshire and Louisiana during the 2014 election cycle. She is a graduate of the RNC’s Campaign Management College.