The 93-year-old media mogul’s influence has been tested in elections on three continents
Rupert Murdoch at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, last week. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty ImagesMurdoch watchers say the media baron had not been to a US political convention in decades, if ever. Some saw it as a conciliatory gesture towards Trump – a man Murdoch has known for decades but never viewed as the best presidential material.
The Trump family then appeared to revel in ignoring his advice. “There was a time where if you wanted to survive in the Republican Party, you had to bend the knee to him or to others,” Donald Trump Jr told a side event at the convention. “I don’t think that’s the case any more.” Fox declined to comment.
Murdoch’s titles have taken pride in backing winners, from Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, to John Major in 1992 and most notably Labour’s Tony Blair in 1997, an unexpected bedfellow for the conservative Murdochs. Even in the cradle of the Murdoch empire, his sway has begun to wane. Media analysts said it was notable that Australia’s Labor PartyTrump has arguably posed much bigger challenges – and opportunities – for Murdoch than any other politician in his career.
Trump meanwhile used his Truth Social platform to take shots at Murdoch and its outlets. The former president said if Murdoch and “his group of MAGA Hating Globalist RINOS honestly believes that the Presidential Election of 2020, despite MASSIVE amounts of proof to the contrary, was not Rigged & Stolen” then he “should get out of the News Business as soon as possible”.
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