The Drudge Report is little more than a propaganda arm for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, alleged Monday.
The senator’s remarks regarding the popular news aggregator came during an interview with talk radio host Mike Slater. The host asked the 2016 presidential candidate to respond to claims that the Drudge report has developed a fondness for running “anti-Christian headlines.”
“In about the past month the Drudge Report has basically become the attack site for the Donald Trump campaign. And so every day they have the latest Trump attack. They’re directed at me,” Cruz, an outspoken evangelical Christian, said in response.
“By all appearances, [former Trump aide and longtime political operative] Roger Stone now decides what’s on Drudge, and most days they have a six-month-old article that is some attack on me, and it’s — whatever the Trump campaign is pushing that day will be the banner headline on Drudge,” the senator added.
He criticized the website, which was founded in 1996 by Matt Drudge, for doing a poor job of highlighting news reports detailing the Republican primaries and caucuses.
“By the way, they no longer cover news,” Cruz said. “When we win a state, suddenly the state doesn’t matter. You know Colorado — there was no red siren on Drudge when we won all 34 delegates in Colorado. That wasn’t news, because — I mean listen, that’s fine. If people want to get on the ‘Trump train,’ they can.”
The site’s shift in focus is particularly frustrating, the senator suggested, given that the Drudge Report used to do an exceptional job of “highlighting the excesses of liberalism.”
Drudge did not respond to the Washington Examiner’s requests for comment.
