Conservative commentator and Fox News contributor Dan Bongino launched a news aggregation website to rival the Drudge Report on Wednesday.
Bongino, a former Secret Service agent, began teasing the Bongino Report last month. He has previously revealed on social media that the new media platform will feature “exclusively conservative and libertarian content.” In promoting his new platform, Bongino accused Drudge of abandoning the conservative movement recently and added that he “never will.”
Aside from the top headlines, the Bongino Report features six topic areas: Election 2020, The Impeachment Witch Hunt, Culture War, Economy, Immigration, and All The Rest.
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— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) December 4, 2019
While Drudge has a historically right-leaning tilt, the site, which was founded by Matt Drudge, has been accused of promoting anti-Trump stories amid the impeachment investigation.
President Trump has noticed Drudge’s apparently leftward swing, according to a report in the Daily Beast published last month. Trump asked, “What’s going on with Drudge?”, according to a person familiar with his private remarks. Trump also asked Jared Kushner, his son-in-law and a top administration official, to contact the outlet to repair the relationship, but it’s unclear if Kushner did.
SimilarWeb, a marketing intelligence company, found that Drudge’s traffic dropped from 96 million total visits to 77 million from July to October, according to the Washington Times. Bongino is not the only news aggregator trying to capitalize on Drudge’s apparent loss of traffic. So far, Whatfinger News, Liberty Daily, Rantingly, NewsAmmo, and Gab Trends have all increased their average monthly traffic, according to the same company.
