Who is Larry Elder? Flash Uganda Media looks at his biography, age, wife, family, tribe, achievements, and relationship with Randolph Elder, Viola, Kirk, Dennis, Patricia Stewart, the early life and education of an American Republican political analyst, Alexandra Datig, a writer and a former attorney.
Larry Elder is a talk radio broadcaster, an American Republican political analyst, a writer and a former attorney.
He routinely praises the previous president Donald Trump on Twitter and is a fervent supporter of him having first backed his 2016 presidential campaign.
Early Life and Education
Larry Elder also known as Laurence Allen Elder was born on April 27, 1952, in Los Angeles and raised in the Pico-Union and South Central neighborhoods.
His father Randolph Elder (1915–2011) served in the United States Marine Corps during World War II.
During World War II, his mother, Viola (née Conley, 1924-2006), served as a clerical assistant for the American Department of War.
He is the middle child of three brothers. His older brother, Kirk, was in the Navy during the Vietnam era and his little brother Dennis served in Vietnam in the Army.
Elder was a Fairfax High School honours student who also took advanced classes. He graduated from Crenshaw High School in 1970 and earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Brown University in 1974.
He later earned his Juris Doctorate from the University of Michigan Law School in 1977.
Elder was married to a female doctor and a lifelong friend for two years. She wanted children, and he didn’t, so they got divorced in 1994.
Elder dated Patricia Stewart from 1996 to 2012, and they have stayed friends ever since.
Elder then began dating Alexandra Datig, a longtime acquaintance and former radio producer. From 2013 through 2015, they were engaged.
Career and Professional Work Experience
Larry Elder joined the Cleveland-based legal firm Squire, Sanders & Dempsey after earning his law degree.
Laurence A. Elder and Associates was founded in 1980 to provide legal executive search services. He retired from running Elder & Associates in 1987, but he remained the company’s owner until 1995.
According to the Supreme Court of Ohio Attorney Directory website, Elder’s license to practice law in Ohio has been administratively suspended since December 2005 due to failure to maintain registration requirements.
Elder began co-hosting Fabric, a topical television programme developed by Dennis Goulden and shown on Cleveland’s PBS affiliate WVIZ, in 1988.
In 1997, he co-hosted the PBS programme National Desk with fellow conservatives Fred Barnes and Laura Ingraham.
Title IX and Women in Sports: What’s Wrong With This Picture, which criticised Title IX, and Redefining Racism: Fresh Voices From Black America were hosted by Elder.
Elder hosted the Warner Brothers Television courtroom drama Moral Court in 2000 and 2001. In 2004, he hosted the syndicated conversation show The Larry Elder Show, which was distributed by Warner Bros.
In 2005, he self-financed the film Michael & Me, in which he disputes Bowling for Columbine filmmaker Michael Moore’s point of view.
Larry Elder auditioned for the MSNBC talk show Imus in the Morning in 2007, which was later cancelled.
He had a weekday evening discussion show on the Los Angeles talk radio station KABC from 1994 to December 2008. He then launched a webcast and a daily live podcast in December 2009. Elder returned to KABC in September 2010.
He was fired by KABC in December 2014, following his afternoon broadcast. He was then added to the CRN Digital Talk Radio Networks roster in June 2015. In August 2015, the Larry Elder Show began receiving nationwide syndication through the Salem Radio Network, which includes Los Angeles station KRLA.
Elder’s afternoon shift on Salem Radio ended on April 4, 2022, after six years.
In the late 1980s, Elder wrote op-eds for Cleveland-area publications. He began writing a nationally syndicated column for Creators Syndicate in 1998. Elder also wrote a weekly column for the Los Angeles Daily News until April 2012.
According to Roll Call, Larry Elder considered challenging California Senator Barbara Boxer in the 2010 election for the US Senate.
2021 California Gubernatorial Recall Election
In July 2021, Elder announced his candidacy to succeed Governor Gavin Newsom in the 2021 California gubernatorial recall election. He claimed that fellow conservative talk-radio personality Dennis Prager, a mentor to Elder, had encouraged him to run.
Elder’s name was initially omitted from the list of candidates to appear on the ballot by California Secretary of State Shirley Weber because she claimed that he had not provided all of the necessary tax return information as required by Senate Bill 27, which was passed in 2019, to be included on a “primary” ballot.
Elder filed a lawsuit, claiming that his paperwork was submitted correctly and that Weber was responsible for correcting the alleged mistakes.
Elder was re-added to the recall ballot on July 21, 2021, per Judge Laurie Earl of the Sacramento County Superior Court, who ruled that Weber had wrongfully disqualified Elder.
Elder had assumed the lead on the election’s replacement question upon his entry.
He refused to debate other Republican recall candidates, including former San Diego mayor Kevin Faulconer, state assemblyman Kevin Kiley, and businessman John Cox, and he refused to share the platform with some of them at Republican Party rallies.
He advised his followers to be “gracious in defeat” on election night, saying that “we may have lost the battle, but we are going to win the war.” Newsom had defeated the recall campaign.
Elder declared in January 2022 that he would not challenge Newsom in the state’s gubernatorial contest later that year, choosing instead to concentrate on a new political action group dubbed “Elder for America” to aid Republicans in regaining the House and Senate.
2024 presidential election
Larry Elder declared his bid to become the next president of the United States in the 2024 election on April 20, 2023.
Since then, Elder has made several appearances on cable news programs, podcasts, and other media outlets to promote his presidential campaign.
Taking on crime has been one of his campaign’s top priorities, and he has criticized district attorneys with ties to billionaire George Soros for failing to “protect people and property.”
He is a member of the Commission on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys.
In July 2023, Elder challenged the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) requirements for candidates to raise 40,000 individual contributors and provide the RNC with their donor information to qualify for the primary debate.
A “Blind Spot” idea has been presented by Elder, who has pledged to sign an executive order prohibiting relatives of presidents, vice presidents, and members of Congress from benefiting from those posts both while they are in office and five years later.
Elder filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission after being excluded from the first Republican primary debate in late August, claiming that Fox News and the RNC colluded to exclude him by not applying the debate qualification rules evenly.
Achievements and Awards
Larry Elder received a Los Angeles Area Emmy Award in 2000 for his Making Waves – LAUSD KCAL-TV News program.
In 2015, Larry received recognition with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Publications
In addition to his work in radio, Larry Elder is the author of several books, including “The Ten Things You Can’t Say in America,” in which Elder presented a 10-point strategy to “save America”.
In his autobiography Dear Father, Dear Son, Elder describes his father’s difficult—some could even say torturous—relationship with him and the amazing conclusion that occurs when he finally confronts him.
Net worth
Larry Elder’s net worth is estimated to range from $6 to $20 million.
From his radio program, Larry Elder has made more than $8 million. In addition, Larry Elder has made almost $5 million from his writing career.
Controversies
Larry Elder revealed that he had been accused of sexual harassment twice in 2011 episodes of his radio show and refuted both claims.
In one instance, Elder asserted his defence by claiming that he was unable to sexually harass the woman because she was too unattractive, saying, “If you had seen her, you would realize that the photo would be a complete defence just passing along.”
Elder was accused of abuse by his ex-fiancée Alexandra Datig in 2021.
Datig said Elder insisted she gets inked with “Larry’s Girl” as a sign of her devotion and that, while “high” on cannabis, he once drew a gun on her and threatened to shoot her.
After Datig’s accusations were made public, the editorial board of The Sacramento Bee and rival contenders Kevin Faulconer and Caitlyn Jenner urged Elder to drop out of the campaign.
Elder labelled Datig’s claims “salacious allegations” and refuted them.
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