Wayne Allyn Root is a conservative American author and radio host. Root was the Vice Presidential nominee for the Libertarian Party in the 2008 presidential election. In 2012, Root rejoined the Republican Party, and endorsed and voted for Mitt Romney. Root worked for WNBC radio in the early 1980s.
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Wayne Allyn Root is a conservative American author and radio host. Root was the Vice Presidential nominee for the Libertarian Party in the 2008 presidential election. In 2012, Root rejoined the Republican Party, and endorsed and voted for Mitt Romney. Root attended the Thornton-Donovan School in New Rochelle, New York, and was a member of the class of 1983 at Columbia University, studying pre-law and political science. He has stated on a number of occasions that he has no recollection of having met or seen Barack Obama at Columbia. In June 2016, Root described himself as a \”Jew turned Evangelical Christian\”. As of November 2016,Root described himself to be Jewish, and says he considers Donald Trump to be the first Jewish president, in the same sense that Bill Clinton was often called the \”first black president\”. Root worked for WNBC radio in the early 1980s. From 1989 to 1991, he worked with the Financial News Network before its subsumption into CNBC.
He was founder and chairman of Winning Edge International Inc. In the 2000s, he hosted Wayne AllynRoot’s Winning Edge, a television show which promoted Root’s sports handicapping operation. Root co-hosted King of Vegas on Spike TV. He produced Ghost Adventures on the Travel Channel. Root’s book outlining his libertarian views, The Conscience of a Libertarian, was published in 2009. Root had announced that he intended to run as a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Nevada in 2016, for the seat held by retiring Democratic Senator Harry Reid. However, he did not run. He supported Republican nominee Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election and was the opening speaker for Trump’s rally in Las Vegas in late October 2016 during the presidential campaign. In August 2019, Root praised President Trump’s assertion that Democrats voting for the Democrats for the 2019 election was a total lack of knowledge or disloyalty.
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