The Drudge Report has wager in opposition to Donald Trump and misplaced.
Having as soon as been probably the most influential conservative media web site in America, the web site seems to have conceded that Trump is heading towards a rare victory.
Drudge proper now. pic.twitter.com/rC1Ls7ZdW8
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 6, 2024
The lead headline hyperlinks to an article from The Associated Press, which doesn’t state that Trump has gained the election however admitted that he had weakened the Democratic coalition.
It said:
Even with the result unsure Tuesday night time, the 2024 presidential election already has uncovered the depths of a fractured nation because the candidates navigated political shifts primarily based on class, race and age beneath the near-constant menace of misinformation and violence.
Early information means that Republican Donald Trump might profit from a few of the shifts greater than Democrat Kamala Harris. And the Republican former president might have additionally benefited from annoyed voters’ concentrate on the economic system.
Whlie the web site has misplaced an enormous quantity of relevance because it betrayed its conservative readership a number of years in the past, the stark headline underlines the devastation felt by the Democratic Get together and liberal America at Trump’s return to energy.
The location stopped linking to The Gateway Pundit and several other different conservative web sites within the wake of the 2020 election and changed them with hyperlinks to mainstream media reminiscent of CNN and The New York Instances. Its site visitors has since collapsed because of this.
There has lengthy been hypothesis that the positioning’s reclusive proprietor, Matt Drudge, had secretly offered the web site, though such claims have by no means been corroborated.
Commenting on its decline final yr, Trump mentioned that the positioning had fallen aside due to its obsession with attacking his candidacy.
“One thing occurred, however when Drudge went anti-Trump, the positioning fell aside, very very similar to Ron DeSanctus,” Trump wrote on the time.
“It occurred immediately, with out discover, however I imagine I do know the rationale why. Drudge had an enormous second, however now it’s gone—By no means to resurface once more. It’s completely irrelevant! That usually occurs when individuals cowl “TRUMP” unfairly. I find it irresistible!”
