Candace Owens

She was communications director of Turning Point USA from 2017 to 2019, hosted a show for The Daily Wire from 2021 to 2024, and now runs an independent YouTube channel. She is named in the Republican Presidential Nominee 2028 race and is named among the possible contenders for that nomination.

Career

Owens ran the marketing agency Degree180 from 2015 and launched the website SocialAutopsy in 2016. She was communications director at Turning Point USA from 2017 to 2019 and co-founded the BLEXIT Foundation in 2018. She hosted a show at PragerU in 2020 and 2021, then hosted Candace at The Daily Wire from 2021 until her dismissal in March 2024. Since 2024 she has run an independent YouTube channel, which Wikipedia says had about six million subscribers in June 2026.

Positions

Wikipedia places Owens on the far right and describes her as a Republican Party member who was initially critical of Donald Trump and later became a supporter. It says her activism has focused on criticising Black Lives Matter, opposing COVID-19 lockdowns and vaccines, and questioning the societal weight of white supremacy.

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