BREAKING: Talk Show Host Larry Elder “Likely” to Announce Presidential Campaign

Conservative talk show host Larry Elder is poised to enter the 2024 Republican field for president, according to a source close to the firebrand commentator.

Elder, host of the “Larry Elder Show” which until last year was carried nationally by Salem Media Group, is likely to announce his campaign “soon,” friend Tom Tradup told the Daily Caller Foundation. Elder would be the sixth official entrant into the Republican field, which is comprised of former President Donald Trump, former Trump ambassador and South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, and businessman Corey Stapleton.

Tradup added that Elder’s likely campaign would be based around his common catchphrase “we’ve got a country to save” and would focus on restoring America’s traditional values.

“If he makes a decision to run, it’s because he truly does want to help this country move forward,” said Tradup. “[Americans] are tired of having word-processed, overly lawyered campaign statements that they run through the deflavorizor so that they won’t offend anybody. What you end up with is these candidates running who don’t stand for anything.”

Elder has already made significant moves to establish himself in a field that will inevitably come down to Trump and his closest challenger. He has been spotted making a visit to early-voting Iowa and has amassed $1.7 million in his Elder for America PAC, according to FEC disclosures.

A hallmark of Elder’s radio segments has been his call for Americans to return to traditional two-parent families. He is expected to carry that theme through his platform and into debates should he make the stage. The Republican National Committee has yet to announce qualifications to joining debates but will probably require a combination of polling and fundraising benchmarks.

Through welfare, leftists destroy the nuclear family, inducing women to marry gov’t and men to abandon their financial/moral responsibility. Fatherless causes crime, victims are disproportionately “people of color.” Release the perps because they are victims of “systemic racism.“

— Larry Elder (@larryelder) December 26, 2021

In addition to Elder and the other candidates who have so far announced, a number of Republicans are waiting in the wings to see how the field shakes out, especially given that President Trump will command an outsized role in the nominating process. Notable spectators include South Carolina Senator Tim Scott who launched an exploratory committee earlier this week and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis who has been coy about his plans for running.