43 Facts About Dave Rubin

David Joshua Rubin was born on in June 1976 and is an American conservative political commentator.

Dave Rubin is the creator and host of The Rubin Report, a political talk show on YouTube and on the network BlazeTV.

Previously, Rubin hosted LGBT-themed talk shows, including The Ben and Dave Show from 2007 to 2008 and The Six Pack from 2009 to 2012, both of which he co-hosted with Ben Harvey.

Dave Rubin originally considered himself to be a progressive while part of The Young Turks.

However, Dave Rubin has written that his views began to change after witnessing progressive commentator and former colleague Cenk Uygur's criticisms of Fox News commentator David Webb, Ben Affleck's confrontation with Bill Maher and Sam Harris over their views on Islam, and the political left's response to the Charlie Hebdo shooting.

Dave Rubin then described himself as a classical liberal, but has since stated that he has become a conservative.

Dave Rubin has become a staunch critic of progressivism, the political left, and the Democratic Party.

Dave Rubin was born in June 26,1976 in Brooklyn, New York City.

Dave Rubin grew up in a "fairly secular Jewish household on Long Island".

Dave Rubin spent his adolescence in Syosset, New York, and then he resided on the Upper West Side of Manhattan for thirteen years.

Dave Rubin attended Binghamton University, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in political science.

In 1998, Dave Rubin started his career in comedy doing stand-up and attending open-mics in New York City.

In May 2009, Dave Rubin co-created and co-hosted the podcast The Six Pack.

In January 2013, Dave Rubin joined The Young Turks, where he hosted the show The Dave Rubin Report.

Dave Rubin moved from New York City to Los Angeles, California.

On March 1,2015, The Young Turks YouTube channel announced that Dave Rubin would be moving to the media company RYOT.

Dave Rubin left Ora TV in 2016, opting to run The Rubin Report independently.

Dave Rubin frequently appears as a speaker at events hosted by Turning Point USA, a conservative student organization.

Dave Rubin has been a podcast guest on The Joe Rogan Experience, Coffee with Scott Adams, and The Ben Shapiro Show.

In December 2021, Dave Rubin sold his Los Angeles house and announced that he was moving to Miami, Florida.

Dave Rubin has hosted more controversial figures on his show, including Lauren Southern, Mike Cernovich, and Milo Yiannopoulos.

Until late 2018, Dave Rubin's show received much of its funding through Patreon, a crowdfunding site on which Dave Rubin said he received over $10,000 per month before deletion.

In 2019, The Dave Rubin Report became available on BlazeTV, a conservative subscription video service run by Glenn Beck.

Dave Rubin initially described himself as a classical liberal due to holding more conservative and libertarian views than most modern liberals.

In December 2021, Dave Rubin wrote an article for Newsweek where he argues that classical liberals and libertarians should vote for the Republican Party.

Dave Rubin has characterized progressivism as a "mental disorder".

Dave Rubin voted for Barack Obama in the 2008 United States presidential election and 2012 United States presidential election.

Ahead of the 2016 United States Presidential election, Dave Rubin declined to endorse Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump and instead voted for Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson.

In July 2017, Dave Rubin criticized Trump's use of executive orders when asked about Trump policies with which he disagreed.

In October 2020, Dave Rubin said he had "been a lifelong Democrat", but would be voting for a Republican president for the first time and endorsed Donald Trump for a second term in the 2020 United States Presidential Election.

Dave Rubin subsequently elaborated that while he didn't agree with everything Trump had done, he had changed his mind on the president and would vote for Trump on the basis of his opposition to the "woke left" and critical race theory in American institutions.

In 2023, Dave Rubin endorsed Ron DeSantis' potential bid in the 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries.

Dave Rubin claimed that it would be equally unrealistic to force a jewish painter to "to take commissions of Hitler imagery from a Nazi sympathizer".

In 2022, Dave Rubin spoke out against rainbow logos for gay pride month.

Dave Rubin was defended by conservatives Douglas Murray and John Cardillo who criticized the suspension.

In 2022, Dave Rubin criticized Democratic politicians for supporting the defund the police movement and accused of them of "demonizing" law enforcement.

Dave Rubin supported an effort to fire Los Angeles district attorney George Gascon.

Dave Rubin is a member of the intellectual dark web, an informal group which speaks out against political correctness, cancel culture and identity politics.

The report cited as an example an interview that Dave Rubin conducted with Stefan Molyneux in which Dave Rubin asked Molyneux to elaborate on his views that races have different average IQ test results and that these differences are genetic.

Sam Harris, a friend and guest on Dave Rubin show has criticized Dave Rubin for not devoting enough of his show to criticizing Trumpism.

Dave Rubin publicly came out as gay in 2006, which he has referred to as his "defining moment".

Dave Rubin once described himself as an agnostic or an atheist, but he said that he was no longer an atheist in December 2019.

In 2021, Dave Rubin announced his intention to relocate from Los Angeles to Florida and moved to the greater Miami area.