1. Laurence Allen Elder was born on April 27,1952 and is an American conservative political commentator and talk radio host.
66 Facts About Larry Elder
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Larry Elder maintains ties to The Epoch Times, a newspaper published by the new religious movement Falun Gong.
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Larry Elder is the author of As Goes California: My Mission to Rescue the Golden State and Save the Nation.
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In 2021, Larry Elder launched his first run for public office, as a Republican candidate in the recall election of California's Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom.
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The recall was defeated by a wide margin, although Larry Elder placed first among the replacement candidates.
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Laurence Allen Larry Elder was born in Los Angeles and grew up in the city's Pico-Union and South Central areas, the middle child of three brothers.
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Larry Elder's father Randolph, who was born in Athens, Georgia, was a sergeant in the United States Marine Corps during World War II and moved to California from Georgia after the war during the Second Great Migration.
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Larry Elder was a clerical worker for the United States Department of War during World War II.
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Larry Elder's father was a Republican, and his mother a Democrat.
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An honors student who took advanced courses at Fairfax High School, Larry Elder graduated from Crenshaw High School in 1970 and earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science in 1974 from Brown University.
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Larry Elder then earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School in 1977.
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Larry Elder began co-hosting Fabric, a topic-oriented television show produced by Dennis Goulden that aired on Cleveland's PBS member station WVIZ in 1988.
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Larry Elder hosted the segments Redefining Racism: Fresh Voices From Black America and Title IX and Women in Sports: What's Wrong With This Picture, which criticized Title IX.
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Between 2000 and 2001, Larry Elder hosted the court series Moral Court, distributed by Warner Brothers Television.
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In 2004, he hosted The Larry Elder Show, a syndicated talk show distributed by Warner Bros.
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In 2007, Larry Elder was one of the rotating talk hosts auditioning for the slot vacated by the now-canceled Imus in the Morning on MSNBC.
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Larry Elder hosted a weekday evening talk show on Los Angeles talk radio station KABC from 1994 until December 2008.
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Larry Elder then launched a daily live podcast as well as a webcast in December 2009.
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In December 2014, Larry Elder was fired from KABC after one of his afternoon broadcasts.
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Larry Elder was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2015.
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In June 2015, Larry Elder joined the lineup of CRN Digital Talk Radio Networks.
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Jean Guerrero, in a 2020 interview on NPR, said that Larry Elder had told her that he had invited Stephen Miller on his radio show as a guest a total of 69 times, having been impressed with Miller after he had first called in to the show as a high school student.
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Larry Elder left his Salem Radio afternoon slot as of, after a six-year run.
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In 1998, Larry Elder began writing a nationally syndicated column through Creators Syndicate.
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Larry Elder wrote a weekly column for the Los Angeles Daily News until April 2012.
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Roll Call reported that Larry Elder contemplated a possible run for the United States Senate against California Senator Barbara Boxer in 2010.
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In July 2021, Larry Elder announced his candidacy to replace Governor Gavin Newsom in the 2021 California gubernatorial recall election.
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Larry Elder said that he was encouraged to run by fellow conservative talk-radio figure Dennis Prager, a mentor to Elder.
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Larry Elder sued, saying that his paperwork was properly submitted and that Weber was required to fix the alleged errors.
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In September 2021, while the recall election was underway, Larry Elder claimed without evidence that there would be "shenanigans" in the voting process.
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In January 2022, Larry Elder announced that he would not run against Newsom in the state's gubernatorial election later that year, and would instead focus on a new political action committee called "Larry Elder for America" in order to help Republicans win back the House and Senate.
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Over a year after the recall, Larry Elder began floating the idea of running for president.
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Since announcing his candidacy, Larry Elder has appeared on various cable news shows, podcasts, and other media platforms to make his case for the presidency, including The Breakfast Club and Valuetainment's PBD Podcast.
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In July 2023, Larry Elder criticized the Republican National Committee's primary debate qualification rules, requiring each candidate to secure 40,000 individual donors and then hand over their donor information to the RNC.
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Larry Elder has proposed a "Blind Spot" initiative, promising to sign an executive order that would prevent family members of presidents, vice presidents, and members of Congress from profiting off of those positions, both while their family members are in office and five years after the fact.
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Larry Elder supports making illegal immigration a felony at the state level, urging US states to punish "illegal aliens" themselves.
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Larry Elder then responded calling the process corrupt, and announced he would take further action in the form of legal prosecution to ensure he was on the debate stage.
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Larry Elder subsequently filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission, accusing the RNC and Fox News of conspiring to leave him out of the debate by failing to apply the debate qualification standards equally.
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Larry Elder blames Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for the US-Mexico border crisis, with more than two million illegal migrants crossing the border for the second consecutive fiscal year in 2023.
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On October 26,2023, Larry Elder ended his campaign for president, endorsing Donald Trump.
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Larry Elder is a registered Republican; in 2021, he stated that he had voted for the Republican candidate in every presidential election since 1980 after voting for Democrat Jimmy Carter in 1976.
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Larry Elder is an ardent supporter of former president Donald Trump, frequently praising him on Twitter.
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Larry Elder was an early supporter of Trump's 2016 candidacy for president.
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Larry Elder has argued that it is unfair to blame Trump for the January 6,2021, attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob.
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Larry Elder opposed the first tariffs imposed by Trump and Trump's decision to draw down US troops from Afghanistan.
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Larry Elder has been critical of public-sector labor unions, especially the California Teachers Association.
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Larry Elder contends that some 15,000 California teachers are "incompetent" and previously proposed that thousands of teachers in the state be fired.
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Larry Elder later said that he favored more charter schools and private schools instead.
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Larry Elder proposes to cap government spending at 10 percent of US gross domestic product, while preventing the sitting president and all members of Congress from running for re-election in the next cycle if the spending cap is exceeded.
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Larry Elder has often denied that a gender wage gap exists.
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Larry Elder contends that employers should be allowed to discriminate in employment against women who plan to have children, and in his 2002 book he wrote that women who choose to have children are not "dedicated" to their jobs and suggested that they lacked a "commitment" to work.
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Larry Elder reiterated these views in 2021, while he ran for governor, after fellow Republican candidate Kevin Faulconer criticized Larry Elder's views.
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Larry Elder has made anti-LGBT remarks on Twitter and has repeatedly used male pronouns when referring to transgender women, such as model Ines Rau and fellow gubernatorial candidate Caitlyn Jenner.
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In 2021, Larry Elder accused California of having a "soft-on-crime ethos"; he opposes a California law that banned police from using certain chokeholds.
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Larry Elder opposes 2014 California Proposition 47, which reclassified as misdemeanors many lower-level drug and property crimes that had formerly been felonies, and said that if elected governor he would press for the proposition to be repealed.
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In 2021, Larry Elder acknowledged that the climate is warming, but rejected the scientific consensus that human activity is the primary contributor, calling concern over climate change "alarmism".
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In 2021, Larry Elder pledged to remove current statewide public health mandates for state government workers in California, such as COVID-19 vaccine requirements, face mask requirements, or regular COVID-19 testing.
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Larry Elder encouraged "people in high-risk categories, people who are older" to be vaccinated but said that "young people" do not need to be vaccinated.
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Larry Elder has proposed suspending or waiving the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act, contending that doing so would speed up housing construction.
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Larry Elder is a critic of the Black Lives Matter movement, blaming it for rising crime.
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Larry Elder has proposed school choice as a solution for poor performance of Black children in school.
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Larry Elder blames the Democratic Party and organizations like the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for ignoring crime and the "epidemic of fatherlessness" in Black neighborhoods.
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Larry Elder was married for two years to a physician, who was a long-term friend of his.
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Larry Elder later dated Patricia Stewart from 1996 to 2012, and they have remained friends since their separation.
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Larry Elder then dated Alexandra Datig, a longtime former radio producer for him, and was engaged to her from 2013 until 2015.
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Datig said that Elder had demanded she show devotion by having "Larry's Girl" tattooed on herself and, during an argument, brandished a gun threateningly at her while "high" on cannabis.