Setmayer is a former CNN political commentator, contributor to ABC News and former GOP Communications Director on Capitol Hill. She’s appeared on ABC‘s The View,[ABC’s Good Morning America, and on HBO‘s Real Time with Bill Maher. On January 9, 2020, Setmayer was named as a Harvard Institute of Politics Spring 2020 Resident Fellow. Also in January 2020, she joined The Lincoln Project as a senior advisor After spending 27 years with the Republican Party, Setmayer publicly left the GOP in November 2020. She now identifies as a conservative independent. From 2006 to 2013, Setmayer worked in the U.S. House of Representatives as the Communications Director for the Republican Representative of California‘s 48th District. Setmayer served as a University of Virginia, Center for Politics, Resident Scholar for the 2021-22 academic year.