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07-10-2015, 08:53 AM
The Daily Cruz
How Breitbart.com, partly funded by a top Ted Cruz donor, became the Texas senator’s media lifeline.
By Hadas Gold, Katie Glueck and Kenneth P. Vogel
7/10/15 6:04 AM EDT
Ted Cruz has a media strategy. It’s called Breitbart.com.
The Texas senator is firmly ensconced in the middle of the Republican presidential primary pack. But you wouldn’t be able to tell from Breitbart.com.
From reader polls and the conservative website’s near cheerleading coverage of the Texas Senator, to donor connections behind the scenes, Cruz likely has the Republican presidential field’s deepest relationship with the Breitbart machine — a relationship he’s seeking to parlay into more energized grassroots support.
Breitbart.com, which boasts of having 18.7 million unique users per month — almost all of them conservative firebrands — is funded in part by New York hedge fund manager Robert Mercer, whose family is bankrolling a pro-Cruz super PAC as well as a political data company called Cambridge Analytica that is working with Cruz’s presidential campaign.
Breitbart.com insists it’s independent, though proudly conservative, and attributes its often-favorable assessments of Cruz to the fact that his independent brand of conservatism is appealing to its readers.
But no one disputes the site’s enthusiasm for Cruz.
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read more:
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/ted-cruzs-secret-weapon-breitbartcom-119935.html
How Breitbart.com, partly funded by a top Ted Cruz donor, became the Texas senator’s media lifeline.
By Hadas Gold, Katie Glueck and Kenneth P. Vogel
7/10/15 6:04 AM EDT
Ted Cruz has a media strategy. It’s called Breitbart.com.
The Texas senator is firmly ensconced in the middle of the Republican presidential primary pack. But you wouldn’t be able to tell from Breitbart.com.
From reader polls and the conservative website’s near cheerleading coverage of the Texas Senator, to donor connections behind the scenes, Cruz likely has the Republican presidential field’s deepest relationship with the Breitbart machine — a relationship he’s seeking to parlay into more energized grassroots support.
Breitbart.com, which boasts of having 18.7 million unique users per month — almost all of them conservative firebrands — is funded in part by New York hedge fund manager Robert Mercer, whose family is bankrolling a pro-Cruz super PAC as well as a political data company called Cambridge Analytica that is working with Cruz’s presidential campaign.
Breitbart.com insists it’s independent, though proudly conservative, and attributes its often-favorable assessments of Cruz to the fact that his independent brand of conservatism is appealing to its readers.
But no one disputes the site’s enthusiasm for Cruz.
...
read more:
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/ted-cruzs-secret-weapon-breitbartcom-119935.html