Steve Deace

Steve Deace (born July 28, 1973) is an American conservative political activist and talk show host.[1][2][3][4] His show The Steve Deace Show is on the Blaze Media platform.

Deace in 2016

Childhood and personal life

Deace's mother, Vickie McNeeley, became pregnant by an older high-school student from a prominent family, who paid McNeeley's mother – an impoverished, twice-divorced, mother of five children – to deny their son's paternity.[2] McNeely married when Deace was three and he bears his stepfather's surname, although he was not formally adopted.[2] Deace became a Christian in 2003 while attending a Promise Keepers rally.[2]

Career

Deace's first job was as a sports reporter for The Des Moines Register. He then hosted a sports talk show KXNO (AM), and later an evening drive talk show on WHO (AM).[2] Deace has been backed Christian conservative businessmen in Iowa since 2010 when Deace helped to defeat three members of the Iowa Supreme Court who approved same-sex marriage.[2] During Obama's presidency, Deace promoted birther conspiracy theories and hosted birther conspiracy theorists on his show.[5][6]

Deace now hosts The Steve Deace Show, formerly on Conservative Review Television, and now on Blaze TV since the merger of those two companies. He also co-hosted We Talk Sports on Blaze TV with former professional baseball player Curt Schilling.

Deace was a senior campaign operative in Iowa for Ted Cruz's presidential campaign in 2016. In May 2016, posted a voter registration form with a check mark next to "no party", after RNC chairman called for Republican unity behind presumptive 2016 Republican candidate Donald Trump.[7] When Ted Cruz endorsed Trump in September 2016, Deace said it was the "the worst political miscalculation of my lifetime."[8][9] In 2017, he defended Steve Bannon's role in the White House, arguing that it would be a mistake for Trump to fire Bannon because of the signal it would send to conservatives.[10]

References
  1. Alberta, Tim. "The Governor of Trump's America". POLITICO Magazine. Retrieved 2020-08-15.
  2. Calmes, Jackie (3 November 2015). "Steve Deace and the Power of Conservative Media". The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
  3. Walshe, Shushannah (9 December 2011). "Meet Steve Deace: Iowa Radio's Christian Conservative Hitmaker – and Hitman". ABC News. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
  4. Glueck, Katie. "Evangelicals still peeved over Pence's religious freedom act flip". POLITICO. Retrieved 2020-08-15.
  5. "Deace lends show to birther movement | Iowa Independent". web.archive.org. 2011-03-09. Retrieved 2020-08-15.
  6. Angster, Daniel. "Former Obama Birther Steve Deace Rushes To Defend Ted Cruz's Presidential Eligibility". Media Matters for America. Retrieved 2020-08-15.
  7. Berenson, Tessa. "Meet the Republicans Who Say They'll Vote for Clinton". Time. Retrieved 2020-08-15.
  8. "After bitter battles, Cruz says he will vote for Trump". WMAZ. Archived from the original on 2020. Retrieved 2020-08-15.
  9. "Ted Cruz backs down, endorses Donald Trump". Dallas News. 2016-09-23. Retrieved 2020-08-15.
  10. Peters, Jeremy W.; Haberman, Maggie (2017-04-12). "Trump Undercuts Bannon, Whose Job May Be in Danger". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-08-15.
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