“Right’s new media powers”

More from the Axios story:

An important shift is accelerating online: Many GOP primary voters now get their information directly from influencers including Candace Owens, Dan Bongino, Joe Rogan, Dave Portnoy, Charlie Kirk, Marjorie Taylor Greene — and websites including Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire and Breitbart, which dominate Facebook.

The hardest-core of Trump’s election-denying base listen to Bannon’s War Room — a podcast that has become an audition stage for GOP candidates, and a venue that consultants say is a goldmine for their candidates’ digital fundraising.

The bottom line: Several operatives said they could easily go a whole primary without needing to engage at all with the mainstream media.

When they do, they’re often trying to provoke outlets the GOP base despises — such as CNN — to gain street cred with primary voters.

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