Top 10 U.S. Social Media Influencers in Politics
Using our extensive media database, we compiled a list of the top 10 social media influencers throughout the United States and operating in the Politics space. Our solution makes it easy to find — and connect with — the influencers that matter to you.
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*Data as October, 2019
1. Joy Reid
Bio:“Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” – James Baldwin #AMJoy #reiders
Location: NYC
Followers: 1.49M
2. Matt Drudge
Bio: The DRUDGE REPORT is a U.S. based news aggregation website run by Matt Drudge(@DRUDGE).
Location: US
Followers: 1.38M
3. Ana Marie Cox
Bio: No one ever made the world better by being perfect. {She/her | outright mental defective | Dog: Exley, Cats: Luke and Leia} Cleaner than I used to be.
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Followers: 1.2M
4. Wayne Dupree
Bio: 2018 Pioneer Of New Media; 2017 Newsmax Top 50 Influential Black Repub, 2015 Blogger/Yr; 2014 Podcast/Yr, Political Commentator – 📧 wayne@waynedupree.com
Location: USAF Desert Storm/Shield Vet
Followers: 381k
5. Pamela Geller
Bio: Editor-in-chief, Geller Report, bestselling author, slayer of dragons, Facebook follow: https://www.facebook.com/pamelageller
Followers: 200k
6. Jim Hoft
Bio: Writer- Speaker- Where Hope Made a Comeback – Top Choice of the American Truth Seeker
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Followers: 191k
7. Markos Moulitsas
Bio: Founder of Daily Kos, Co-founder Vox Media. Author of The Resistance Handbook: 45 Ways to Fight Trump
Location: Berkeley, California
Followers: 177k
8. Jeff Jarvis
Bio:@BuzzMachine; prof @ Craig Newmark J-school; books: Public Parts, What Would Google Do?, Gutenberg the Geek. This Week in Google. Views are mine & no one else’s
Location: New York, NY
Followers: 170k
9. Crooks and Liars
Bio: Watching the media since 2004! Follow the entire C&L staff at https://twitter.com/#!/Karoli/crooks-and-liars/members …
Location: U.S.A.
Followers: 89k
10. Mickey Kaus
Bio: The End of Equality [1992, Basic Books] “The venerable liberal crusade for income equality is doomed. … Time [to] try a different strategy.”
Followers: 40k
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