Posted on 07/19/2016 6:35:46 AM PDT by Mariner
CNN couldn't stop Donald Trump. Neither could Fox News.
Some of the nation's most influential conservatives, from Glenn Beck to Bill Kristol, were powerless. Karl Rove and the Bush family had no effect. Scandal after scandal failed to put a chink in his armor.
And the 16 other GOP contenders, comprising some of the party's brightest and budding stars, proved to be impotent.
But some observers say that one man may have had the power to prevent Donald Trump's accession within the Republican Party: Matt Drudge.
"If Drudge had come out really negatively against Trump and had supported someone who would have played well with his reader base like Cruz, it would have been much harder for Trump to win," BuzzFeed political reporter and editor Andrew Kaczynski told Business Insider, referring to Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas.
The news mogul, one of the most mysterious individuals in the media industry, operates entirely outside the New York City and Washington, D.C., apparatus. He is seemingly accountable to no one. He is rarely spotted in public and holds close company with only a few select people. Reporters tip him off to stories through email or instant messages but never expect a reply, knowing he is unlikely to write back.
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Ann Coulter gets it right: "It's not that Drudge led to Trump," she added. "Drudge was reflecting where the public is."
God Bless Matt Drudge!
Since when is it Matt Drudge’s job to pick winners and losers in the Republican Party?
But, Drudge didn’t! Go blow it out your ass!
Smell their desperation and fear. What a great time to be alive!
Sigh - more anti-Trump BS.
It’s ludicrous to think that any one person could have stopped Trump. I’m holding my nose while voting for him, but I understand this phenomenon was about more than Trump. I don’t completely get it, but I’ll ride the train because I want to see that train run over the Clintons..
Maintaining the narrative that the media should drive an agenda rather than chronicle events.
They could of stopped Donald Trump had they worked to secure the border and accomplishing a conservative agenda that wouldn’t just help the Chamber of commerce but respond tot he needs of the rest of us.
Exactly. And where’s the libs’ Matt Drudge?
The same GOPe that abandoned conservatives in the House and Senate are behind the anti-Trump movement. They are a pathetic lot.
This election is really separating the goats from the sheep,so to speak.The socialists can’t help themselves as they become more and more shrill.
I wonder if any of these anti Trump people attempted to bribe or threaten Drudge?
Correction to the article: the unhinged Glenn Beck and hysterical B. Kristol are NOT conservatives. They don’t like this country, they are okay with Sharia law, they are dedicated globalists.
Drudge aggregates new stories. He doesn’t write editorials.
For the first time since Reagan we have a candidate that can beat a sitting and failing Democrat; and what do the idiots in the RNC wanna do? They want to defeat our own candidate? Do they think that the series of stuffed shirts and cadeavors that have pushed through the past elections all lost on a fluke? Mittens was a stuffed shirt, McCain was simply an embarrassment and Dole is best remembered for his Viagra commercial.
It’s long past time we flushed these corrupt idiots down the Delaware with the bulk of the Senate.
Maybe Drudge didn’t because Drudge actually cares about the future of this country?
Speaks volumes of Cruz supporters, that they would think that one on line reporter is responsible for the adoration and support D Trump gets, and the distain with which R. Cruz is held.
Isn’t this amazing? Every stripe of the press, radio, television, ‘conservative’ media were beating on him 24/7 and ‘oh if only Drudge wouldn’t have been so bias’! This is the insanity that is spewed by these types.
They know it’s too late for them but still cannot let it go. If Hillary! Or any other Dem brought in at the last minutes to replace her, does win, we can thank the GOPe for sullying the narrative. The Dems have only to look to the GOPe for their talking points in this election.
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