Rina Shah Bharara is a political commentator, strategic consultant, and entrepreneur based out of Washington, D.C. ^{[32] [3]}

Rina Shah is a Republican, however for the 2016 presidential election she endorsed independent Evan McMullin over Donald Trump, the Republican Party presidential nominee.

Rina Shah as a political commentator and regularly appears on PBS, Fox News, TV One, and other television channels offering debate and commentary from a Republican perspective. She is also a regular panelist on the all women news analysis show To the Contrary on PBS. ^[3]

Rina Shah is a featured columnist at the bi-partisan blogger platform, PoliticalStorm.com. ^[33]

Rina Shah is the founder of Rilax Strategies a political, public affairs, & strategic communications a government and public affairs firm. She specializes in building winning strategies for political campaigns as well as serving as a government affairs consultant to a wide-range of domestic and international corporations. ^[3]

She is also a Senior Advisor to Red Fort Strategies, a full-service public affairs and government relations firm.

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Before launching Rilax Strategies, Rina worked as a senior staffer to two Members of United States Congress. ^[3]

Rina currently serves as an Advisor to VoteRunLead, as Co-Chair of Concord 51's DC Chapter, and as an inaugural member of theUnited States House of Representatives Republican Conference's Indian American Advisory Council. ^[3]

In March 2016, Rina was elected as a Delegate from Washington, D.C. to the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio. However since she made anti-Trump remarks in the national media prior to the convention, her local party and the pro-Trump Credentials Committee illegally denied her access to be seated as a delegate. ^[18]

Rina's controversial story has been highlighted in publications including the Washington Post.