{"id":1917331,"date":"2023-04-20T21:55:32","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T01:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/larry-elder-announces-2024-presidential-run\/"},"modified":"2023-04-20T21:57:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T01:57:20","slug":"larry-elder-announces-2024-presidential-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/larry-elder-announces-2024-presidential-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry Elder Announces 2024 Presidential Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flarry-elder-announces-2024-presidential-run%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1917331&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0421\/1d66680c-6f4a-4249-bb95-f92e2b97111a\/audio.mp3?length=5800077&#038;duration=483\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Republican conservative radio host Larry Elder announced he will run for President of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m announcing that I\u2019m running for the presidency of the United States,\u201d he broke the news on \u201cTucker Carlson Tonight\u201d on Fox News on April 20. \u201cI have a moral, religious, and patriotic duty to get back to a country that\u2019s been so good to my family and to me. That is why I\u2019m doing this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He told The Epoch Times he has been asked by supporters and fans to run for president, and so after careful consideration and more than four decades of political commentary, he has decided to do just that.<\/p>\n<p>Elder is the host of \u201cThe Larry Elder Show\u201d on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/c-larry-elder-with-epoch-times\">EpochTV<\/a>, which he is pausing for his presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>He previously ran against California Gov. Gavin Newsom in September 2021 in a recall election, in which he received 3.5 million votes\u2014or 49 percent of the votes against the governor spilt among 46 replacement candidates. His closest competitor, by comparison, garnered 9 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Of the replacement votes, Elder carried 57 of California\u2019s 58 counties and raised $27 million for his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>While he knew entering\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-us-politics\">politics<\/a>\u00a0wouldn\u2019t be easy for him, especially as a black conservative, Elder said he was still surprised by the smear campaigns during the recall election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know how brutal it is,\u201d he said. \u201cI know how your enemies will dissect things that you\u2019ve said and put the worst spin on it, or will even make things up \u2026 particularly when it comes to a black conservative, because I refute the narrative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elder said that because the left promotes the narrative that America is inherently racist, he is often portrayed as an \u201cUncle Tom,\u201d by leftwing media just for his conservative views.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf a black guy from the inner city, as I was, whose dad cleaned toilets comes along and says, \u2018I\u2019m sorry. It\u2019s all about working hard. It\u2019s all about making sure that you invest in yourself, and avoiding bad moral mistakes, and if you can do that, you\u2019ll be fine in America,\u2019 that blows a whole narrative. So, I\u2019m an enemy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4028019\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/10\/02\/Elder-Results-Party_14_JF_09142021-1200x800.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> Supporters of Larry Elder attend a gubernatorial recall\u00a0election night gathering at the Hilton hotel in Costa Mesa, Calif., on Sept. 14, 2021. (John Fredricks\/The Epoch Times)<\/figure>\n<p>But Elder never anticipated the leftwing media would stoop to brand him as the \u201cblack face of white supremacy\u201d as one Los Angeles Times columnist did during the recall election.<\/p>\n<p>Elder claims many black Americans are being \u201cduped\u201d and \u201cmisinformed\u201d to believe they\u2019re victims of \u201csystemic racism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rejecting the push for reparations for slavery, Elder said that the notion of victimhood has affected the \u201cattitude and mood\u201d of the black community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re not a slave, and the person over here is not a slave owner,\u201d he said. \u201cWhy should somebody who did nothing to you pay for something that was never done to you? It doesn\u2019t make any sense. And this whole victim mentality is, in my opinion, almost a cancer within the black culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elder was also criticized for discussing the issue of fatherless homes in the black community and high rates of crime in black neighborhoods, and for pointing out that Black Lives Matters is a self-described Marxist organization that seeks to destroy the family structure in America.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s all because of the breakdown of the family. The values are not there. The adherence to Judeo-Christian values is not there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, he said, young black people who grew up without a father figure are \u201cangry\u201d and \u201cmad at the world,\u201d which leads to a set of social ills, and \u201cwe don\u2019t talk enough about this.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>An Unhyphenated American<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Elder said he never uses the term \u201cAfrican-American\u201d because he doesn\u2019t support the notion of what President Teddy Roosevelt called \u201chyphenated Americans\u201d because it is divisive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m an American. I\u2019m an American who is black. I\u2019m not a hyphenated American,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re all Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the United States is the most successful democracy in the world\u2019s history because it is based on the concept that all its citizens are Americans irrespective of race and ethnicity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was born in Los Angeles. My dad was born in Georgia. My dad\u2019s never been to Africa [and] my dad never had this whole idea of African American,\u201d he said. \u201cI have friends who are Italian. They don\u2019t call themselves Italian Americans \u2026 but black Americans call themselves African Americans. I think it\u2019s ridiculous, and to me, it\u2019s a refutation of what America is all about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a syndicated columnist, Elder has written more than 1,200 weekly opini<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican conservative radio host Larry Elder announced he will run for President of the United States. \u201cI\u2019m announcing that I\u2019m running for the presidency of the United States,\u201d he broke the news on \u201cTucker Carlson Tonight\u201d on Fox News on April 20. \u201cI have a moral, religious, and patriotic duty to get back to a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":1917332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[4506,4156,7672,4794,3849],"class_list":["post-1917331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-4506","tag-announces","tag-elder","tag-larry","tag-presidential"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1917331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1917332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1917331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1917331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1917331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}