about Kevin:

A campaign operative by training, Kevin Walling has led advocacy and political engagement for dozens of campaigns, organizations, and ballot initiatives at the local, state, and federal level for nearly two decades. A partner at Democratic media firm HGCreative, and co-founder of Celtic Strategies, Kevin is a nationally recognized expert in paid media engagement programs and targeted voter contact strategies. 

In 2020, Kevin served as a surrogate for the Biden-Harris campaign, where he represented the campaign largely on conservative-leaning programs, delivering key campaign messages daily to a national TV audience. Since then, Kevin has served as a prominent and almost-daily Democratic voice on Fox News Channel, joining special event programming including election night coverage in 2020, 2021 and the 2022 midterms, each of President Biden’s State of the Union Addresses, the 2024 Biden-Trump presidential debate, and most recently the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. 

Since 2016, Kevin has logged over 500 hours of commentary and political analysis on national news programming across the Fox News Channel (FNC), Fox Business Network (FBN), CNN, MSNBC, Fox News Radio, and Bloomberg TV and Radio. He is currently the lead political contributor and analyst for Fox5 (WTTG) based in Washington, DC. A frequent opinion writer for Fox News Digital and a former contributor to The Hill, Kevin has also written extensively on campaign tactics, trends and elections for the past ten years. 

In 2010, Kevin helped launch No Labels, a group working to build grassroots support for bipartisan solution on Capitol Hill, and was the organization’s first Political and Field Director, as well as a national spokesman. 

By far, Kevin’s proudest policy accomplishment was helping to lead the successful effort to pass marriage equality as a Director of Equality Maryland during the critical 2008 election cycle, when Maryland voters elected their first pro-equality majority in the State Assembly and Senate. In 2014, Kevin was elected to serve as a Democratic Committeeman in Montgomery County, MD and served a term as the chairman of the county’s Democratic Party. 

A graduate of Catholic University in Washington, DC, Kevin and his husband Alex Stroman split their time between homes in Washington and Charleston, SC.