Matt Bernstein

That's where she went.

Candice leaves Turning Point USA in 2019 to join PragerU, where she launched The Candice Owens Show and officially became an on-screen talent powerhouse.

One year later, she leaves PragerU to join The Daily Wire, which has been Shapiro's online publication where she hosted her own live political talk show called Candace, which had like a live studio audience and stuff.

Now, these years when she was bouncing between Turning Point and PragerU and The Daily Wire and like all of the right wing networks.

This is when Candace came onto my radar because when social autopsy happened, I was like in high school and did not know what was going on.

And I mostly ignored Candace, because like I said at the beginning, like, I knew what she was doing.

And I knew why she was succeeding.

It was like a pretty standard grift that we've described where like a minority can do this on the right, and she was just doing it particularly early and particularly well.

So as she ascended the ranks and became incredibly wealthy and well watched among Republicans, to me, it kind of became background noise.

And this would change.

But before we get into how it changes, I want to talk about the Freedom Phone.

Because these people are, at the end of the day, about their wallets.

And that can take them into some pretty funny places.

Candice is no exception.

So

In 2022, while at the Daily Wire doing her show, Candace began promoting the Freedom Phone, which Taylor reported on at the time.

Taylor, take it away.

Milo.

Parler, which is just like a right wing like social media app.

You couldn't download it in the app store because of the role that it played in January 6th organizers.