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Media split: Bongino Report, Drudge alternative, competes in news aggregator space

By Paul Bedard
Published December 6, 2019 4:11pm ET
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Media split: Bongino Report, Drudge alternative, competes in news aggregator space
This March 6, 2014 file photo shows former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino and Maryland House candidate speaking to the Conservative Political Action Committee. He has since become a star GOP media pundit and just launched the Bongino Report.

GOP media battler Dan Bongino has made good on his plans to create a news site that would be more like the Drudge Report than the real Drudge Report. And it almost imploded his server.

Bongino, who hosts a widely subscribed Dan Bongino Show podcast, had 20,000 users on his site just an hour after it went live on Wednesday. “Interest has been through the roof,” he said of the Bongino Report.

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