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Steve Deace
Deace in 2022
Born
Steven James Deace

(1973-07-28) July 28, 1973 (age 51)
Des Moines, Iowa, U.S.
Occupations
  • Conservative activist
  • Talk show host
Political partyIndependent[1]
Spouse
Amy Deace
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(m. 1997)​

Steven James Deace (born July 28, 1973) is an American conservative talk show host[2][3][4][5] and author. His program The Steve Deace Show is on the Blaze Media platform.

Early life

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Born on July 28, 1973, Deace is the son of Vickie McNeeley, who was 14 years old and not married at the time. She went on to raise him and one other child as a single mother in the Grand Rapids, Michigan area.[3] McNeely later married when Deace was three years old. Although he was not formally adopted, Deace bears his stepfather's surname. He attended Michigan State University in the early 1990s but later dropped out of school.[3]

Career

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Deace's first job was as a sports reporter for The Des Moines Register. He then hosted a sports talk show on KXNO (AM) and later an evening drive talk show on WHO (AM).[3] While at WHO, Deace endorsed and gave airtime to the Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee during the 2008 Iowa Caucuses, which helped Huckabee win the state's presidential primary.[4] In 2010, he helped the successful campaign to defeat three members of the Iowa Supreme Court who approved same-sex marriage.[3]

Deace left WHO in early 2011 to launch a nationally-syndicated radio program, The Steve Deace Show, on the Truth Radio Network. Later that year, Salem Radio Network picked up his program and moved it to primetime.[4]

During the 2012 election, Deace was a major critic of Republican nominee Mitt Romney. Citing Romney's changing positions on numerous political issues, Deace did not support Romney in either the primary or the general elections that year.[6]

Deace endorsed Ted Cruz for president in 2016 and worked as a senior campaign operative in Iowa for Cruz's presidential campaign. In February 2016, Cruz would go on to win the Iowa Caucuses. After Cruz dropped out of the race in May 2016, he posted a voter registration form with a check mark next to "no party" in response to calls for Republican unity behind Donald Trump and his presidential campaign.[1] Ted Cruz endorsed Trump in September 2016, Deace said that it was "the worst political miscalculation of my lifetime.”[7][8] He went on to vote for the Constitution Party's candidate, Darrell Castle, in the general election.[9]

In 2017, Deace's program moved to CRTV, a conservative streaming platform.[10] Later that year, he defended Steve Bannon's role in the White House and argued that it would be a mistake for Trump to fire Bannon because of the signal it would send to conservatives.[11] In 2018, his program moved to BlazeTV after CRTV merged with it.[12]

During the 2020 election, Deace announced he was voting for Trump.[13] When it was apparent that Joe Biden was defeating Trump, Deace cast doubt about the validity of the vote in swing states and said, "When you went to bed Trump was ahead and the counting miraculously stopped. When you woke up it resumed, with Biden garnering Chavez-like totals in the dead of night. This is a coup."[14]

Deace is a COVID-19 vaccine skeptic, believing it to be part of a “depopulation scheme”.[15] He has referred to vaccines as "poison".[16]

In August 2023, Deace endorsed Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in the 2024 presidential primary.[17]

Personal life

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He and his wife, Amy, have three children. Deace is a Christian and converted in 2003 after attending a Promise Keepers rally.[3]

Bibliography

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Fiction

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  • A Nefarious Plot. Post Hill Press. 2016. ISBN 978-1618688231
  • A Nefarious Carol. Post Hill Press. 2020. ISBN 978-1642937862

Non-fiction

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  • Rules for Patriots: How Conservatives Can Win Again. Post Hill Press. 2014. ISBN 978-1618689900
  • Truth Bombs: Confronting the Lies Conservatives Believe (To Our Own Demise). Post Hill Press. 2019 ISBN 978-1642930221
  • Faucian Bargain: The Most Powerful and Dangerous Bureaucrat in American History. Post Hill Press. 2021. ISBN 979-8495352636
  • Do What You Believe: Or You Won’t Be Free to Believe It Much Longer. 2022. ISBN 978-1637586075
  • Rise of the Fourth Reich: Confronting COVID Fascism with a New Nuremberg Trial, So This Never Happens Again. 2023. ISBN 978-1637587522

See also

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  • Nefarious - 2023 horror film based on Deace's 2016 novel A Nefarious Plot.

References

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  1. ^ a b Berenson, Tessa. "Meet the Republicans Who Say They'll Vote for Clinton". Time. Retrieved August 15, 2020.
  2. ^ Alberta, Tim (June 29, 2017). "The Governor of Trump's America". POLITICO Magazine. Retrieved August 15, 2020.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Calmes, Jackie (November 3, 2015). "Steve Deace and the Power of Conservative Media". The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved November 5, 2018.
  4. ^ a b c Walshe, Shushannah (December 9, 2011). "Meet Steve Deace: Iowa Radio's Christian Conservative Hitmaker – and Hitman". ABC News. Retrieved November 5, 2018.
  5. ^ Glueck, Katie (July 15, 2016). "Evangelicals still peeved over Pence's religious freedom act flip". POLITICO. Retrieved August 15, 2020.
  6. ^ Margolis, Jason (December 23, 2011). "Mitt Romney's Powerful Iowa Enemy Redoubles His Efforts". The Atlantic. Retrieved September 23, 2023.
  7. ^ "After bitter battles, Cruz says he will vote for Trump". WMAZ. September 23, 2016. Archived from the original on August 15, 2020. Retrieved August 15, 2020.
  8. ^ "Ted Cruz backs down, endorses Donald Trump". Dallas News. September 23, 2016. Retrieved August 15, 2020.
  9. ^ @stevedeaceshow (November 8, 2016). "Deace voting for Darrell Castle" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  10. ^ "Monday, February 13, 2017". Talkers. February 13, 2017. Archived from the original on August 11, 2022. Retrieved June 27, 2022.
  11. ^ Peters, Jeremy W.; Haberman, Maggie (April 12, 2017). "Trump Undercuts Bannon, Whose Job May Be in Danger". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 15, 2020.
  12. ^ Breuninger, Kevin (December 3, 2018). "Glenn Beck's The Blaze and Mark Levin's CRTV merge to form right-wing outlet Blaze Media, which could rival the new Fox News streaming service". CNBC. Retrieved June 27, 2022.
  13. ^ @stevedeaceshow (July 30, 2020). "Deace says he's voting for Trump" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  14. ^ "Disinformation machine for Trump targets remaining swing states as Biden leads". ThePrint. November 5, 2020. Retrieved May 15, 2021.
  15. ^ Media Matters Staff (March 27, 2023). "BlazeTV host Steve Deace: If COVID-19 vaccines weren't "a purposeful depopulation scheme ... what behavior would they have done differently, if it is one?"". Media Matters for America. Retrieved August 16, 2023.
  16. ^ Johnson, Julia (December 7, 2023). "Republican debate: Megyn Kelly pulls no punches with blunt questioning - Washington Examiner". Retrieved September 12, 2024.
  17. ^ Akin, Katie (August 11, 2023). "Conservative talk show host Steve Deace endorses Gov. Ron DeSantis". Des Moines Register.
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