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Vietor was deputy press secretary for the Barack Obama Illinois Senate Campaign in 2004, then became deputy press secretary for Senator Obama the following year and press secretary the year after that. During Obama's presidential campaign from 2007–2008, he was Iowa Press Secretary.<ref name="Post resume">{{cite web|title=Tommy Vietor|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tommy-vietor/gIQA4kmdAP_print.html|website=Washington Post|accessdate=22 March 2018|language=EN|date=24 July 2012}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2758|title=Tommy Vietor - Discover the Networks|website=www.discoverthenetworks.org|access-date=2018-01-03}}</ref>
Following Obama's victory in the [[2008 United States presidential election|2008 presidential election]], Vietor became the
Vietor left the White House in March 2013, along with Obama's Director of Speechwriting [[Jon Favreau (speechwriter)|Jon Favreau]], to pursue a career in private sector consulting and screenwriting. Together, they founded the communications firm Fenway Strategies.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/03/03/obama-speechwriter-jon-favreau-leaves-west-wing-for-screenwriting/Evt7Rtg5ax9dwbnVjFfOgJ/story.html|title=Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau leaves West Wing for screenwriting - The Boston Globe|work=BostonGlobe.com|access-date=2018-01-02}}</ref>
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Shortly after the November 2016 election, Vietor, Lovett and Favreau decided to pursue podcasting and activism on a full-time basis. They founded their own company, [[Crooked Media]], and launched a new podcast, ''[[Pod Save America]]''.<ref>Matt Wilstein. [http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/01/19/the-troublemaker-behind-donald-trump-s-words.html The 'Keepin' It 1600' Guys Launch Crooked Media to Counter Trump]. ''The Daily Beast'', January 9, 2017.</ref> In an interview with [[Recode]]'s [[Kara Swisher]], Vietor explained that "If Hillary [Clinton] had won, we probably would've kept doing this as a hobby... But when she lost, I think we all had this existential crisis, where it didn't feel right to wake up every day and obsess about politics and what's happening in the country, and then go to work doing something else."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.recode.net/2017/3/15/14926278/crooked-media-pod-save-america-jon-favreau-tommy-vietor-jon-lovett-sxsw-recode-podcast|title=Crooked Media's founders aren't paying themselves anything|work=Recode|access-date=2018-01-03}}</ref>
Along with [[Ben Rhodes (White House staffer)|Ben Rhodes]], who served as Deputy National Security Advisor under President Obama, Vietor also hosts a
Vietor hosted a five-part miniseries about the Iowa caucuses called ''Pod Save America: On the Ground in Iowa''. The miniseries was produced by [[Pineapple Street Studios]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Pod Save America: On the ground in Iowa Archives|url=https://crooked.com/podcast-series/iowa/|access-date=2020-06-03|website=Crooked Media|language=en-US}}</ref>
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