By Wayne Allyn Root
I keep reading and seeing stories in the media explaining how Trump won the 2024 election. They’re all wrong.
The media credits hip podcasters and influencers, and the young American males who they convinced to vote for Trump.
Those votes certainly helped put Trump over the top. So did a few million new black voters, Latino voters, and union voters.
Elon Musk’s support and money and enthusiasm was also a key to Trump’s victory.
Lara Trump at the RNC with her army of lawyers and poll watchers made a big difference.
Also give credit to hundreds of thousands of GOP volunteers who worked tirelessly to elect President Trump. God bless you. Every one of you made this possible.
An 83-year old organizer by the name of Steve Stern helped put together an army of 200,000 poll workers and poll watchers. Steve, you’re amazing.
Scott Pressler’s brilliant voter registration push in Pennsylvania was a big part of Trump’s victory.
It was a team effort. Take away any one of those and perhaps Trump doesn’t win. They all get credit.
And of course, Trump himself should be at the top of the list. Donald J. Trump is the most talented politician, salesman, marketer and disruptor in history.
But everyone is missing Trump’s main secret weapon.
The media and the radical left certainly don’t understand the outsized role it played in Trump’s victory.
This secret weapon is not just the MAGA Army of dedicated Trump voters, but the MAGA leadership.
This leadership is not politicians, political consultants, lobbyists, lawyers, or billionaires.
This leadership who educates, and motivates, and mobilizes, and keeps hope alive, and brings the fire for MAGA, is…
Conservative talk radio, conservative talk TV, conservative streaming TV, and conservative podcasts.
I’m not just referring to the big high-profile names like Fox News and Newsmax. Of course, they deserve plenty of credit.
But I’m referring to thousands of blue-collar, under-the-radar, conservative talk radio hosts in every city in America…
And thousands of conservative podcasters whose names you may have never heard of…
And conservative streaming TV networks like Real America’s Voice TV (known as RAV).
And the key to their power and influence is repetition.
These conservative hosts didn’t suddenly find Trump in the past few weeks, or months. They didn’t decide to talk politics in the last month before the election. They didn’t endorse Trump at the last second.
I’m talking about conservative TV and radio hosts and podcasters who have supported, and promoted, and celebrated, and defended President Trump for hours a day…every day…for ten long years (since 2015 when Trump came down that famous Trump Tower escalator).
Repetition was the key to Trump’s victory.
I’m on TV and radio fighting for President Trump five hours a day, with three streamed TV shows, and 3 hours of syndicated national radio. Plus my weekend show, “America’s Top Ten Countdown” on Real America’s Voice TV.
That’s 25 hours a week, 100 hours a month, 1200 hours a year. Since 2015 that’s 12,000 hours on the air supporting President Trump. Just from one host.
Multiply that effort by thousands of conservative radio, TV, and podcast hosts.
That’s Trump’s secret weapon.
Tens of millions of Americans get their news by listening in their cars to conservative talk radio on their way to and from work.
That’s the Trump base.
Millions more get their news from conservative streamed TV on their cell phones, laptops, tablets, desktops, or on Roku, Pluto, Samsung, Apple TV, Amazon TV.
That’s the Trump base.
Take Real America’s Voice TV. The hosts are Steve Bannon, Charlie Kirk, Wayne Allyn Root (yours truly), Grant Stinchfield, Ted Nugent, Dr. Gina, Jack Posobiec, Brian Glenn and Ben Berquam, to name a few.
The left doesn’t even know we exist.
Yet from the amazing reaction I get from fans wherever I go, I’m betting more conservatives now get their news from watching streamed TV networks like Real America’s Voice than from Fox News.
The mainstream media doesn’t understand it yet, but they no longer matter.
I watch my own TV shows either on my cell phone while out to dinner, or sitting in my living room watching TV on Roku, Pluto, or on my Samsung app.
I’m sure CNN and MSNBC think my three streaming tv shows on Real America’s Voice and FrankSpeech are a joke. But I guarantee you more people watch my TV shows and listen to my nationally-syndicated radio show combined than any show on CNN or MSNBC.
And there are thousands of conservative hosts and podcasters like me who collectively are reaching tens of millions of Americans.
They are now more important than ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and all the rest.
So is TheGatewayPundit.com. My commentaries there reach more people than watch CNN. This is how conservatives get their news.
Yes, Joe Rogan was great. And I appreciate all those young podcasters and influencers. We needed every one of them. They certainly added a few million votes.
But Trump got 63 million votes in 2016 without them. And 74 million votes in 2020 without them.
This time around, Trump got 77 million votes. So, all of those new endorsers, and all those young podcast followers combined, got Trump about three million new votes.
But never forget who brought you to the dance.
Trump’s three presidential elections were built on a base of 60+ million MAGA voters. And that base listens to conservative talk radio and podcasts. And watches conservative streamed TV. Not a week before the election. But every day, hours a day.
Club 47 in Palm Beach Florida is another example of this phenomenon.
It’s a conservative club dedicated to President Trump. While Democrats can’t get 500 people in a room to listen to Biden or Kamala without paying them (or throwing a Beyonce concert), Club 47 gets thousands to attend events every month to listen to speeches by conservative MAGA stars.
I’ll bet the mainstream media has no clue Club 47 even exists.
Real America’s Voice TV broadcast every Trump rally in the country, for months on end. So, Trump didn’t reach 10,000 or 20,000 or even 100,000 attending. He reached millions with each speech because of RAV’s TV coverage. I’ll bet the mainstream media had no idea any TV network was covering these rallies. Thank you RAV.
These were Trump’s secret weapons.
The MAGA Army, and the conservative under-the-radar media that reached them, educated them, energized them, mobilized them, and gave them hope that Trump would prevail, when no one else would.
That’s who brought Trump to the dance through three presidential elections, over the past 10 years.
Everyone else helped close the deal. MAGA and conservative talk is “the Art of the Deal.”
That’s your secret weapon, Mr. President.
That’s not my opinion, that’s a fact.
MAGA.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Watch Wayne’s new TV Show, “The ROOT Reaction” weeknights at 10 PM ET/7 PM Pacific on Real America’s Voice TV, and Wayne’s weekend “America’s Top Ten Countdown” on Saturdays at Noon ET/9 AM PT on Real America’s Voice TV. Watch at RealAmericasVoice.com, or at Rumble, Roku, Pluto, Apple, Dish TV Ch 219, or go to RootforAmerica.com to watch. Read Wayne’s latest fun book, “How Democrats Have Made America Great.” It’s 140 blank pages! The joke is on Democrats!
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