The veteran conservative talk-show gabber was a useful foil for Gavin Newsom in 2021. Now he’s taking a shot at the White House.
made him a useful foil for Team Newsom’s claim that recall proponents were just Trump fans who wanted to drag California backward on a wide variety of issues.
Despite making some noise about running for governor again in 2022 , Elder took a pass, and now he’s going to show off his well-honed talent for provocative gabbing on the biggest stage of all. The trouble is, aside from his lack of any sort of experience in public office, there’s nothing particularly distinctive about Elder’s views, though he’s a bit more hawkish on foreign-policy issues and a bit more libertarian on domestic issues than your standard MAGA-era Republican. Asked directly by Carlson why he felt compelled to run for president, Elder said he’d had an itch for “giving back” to America ever since he missed performing military service during the Vietnam War .
When pressed to articulate the most urgent issue he wanted to address, Elder said, “The lie that America is systemically racist.” Like fellow 2024 candidates of color
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