NPR Coverage of Andrew Tate Includes Insights from Open Measures Researcher
Senior researcher Jared Holt spoke to NPR about Andrew Tate's political ties as his extradition fight tests his standing on the MAGA right
A new article and radio segment from NPR’s All Things Considered traces how Andrew Tate spent years cultivating relationships with Trump-world figures and the broader MAGA movement — and how those ties are now being strained as Tate and his brother Tristan fight extradition to the U.K. on criminal charges including rape and human trafficking.
NPR turned to Open Measures senior researcher Jared Holt to explain why Tate became such an appealing figure to Republican politicians and influencers in the first place, and what his current predicament says about the durability of those alliances:
“The Tate brothers have friends on Capitol Hill,” Jared Holt, senior researcher at Open Measures, tells NPR. “There’s people in the Trump administration that have cozied up to them before, people in the MAGA movement that have cozied up to them before, certainly.”
Holt also pointed to the transactional logic behind that support:
To Trump and other politicians, Holt says, Tate is a compelling figure because he offers access to a massive and energetic fanbase dominated by a desirable demographic: young men. And, Holt adds, some of the views Tate expresses align with Trump and his camp.
“It’s like, here’s a couple guys who are promoting the kind of ideals of hypermasculinity and machismo that we would like to promote,” Holt says. “And they seem politically friendly, politically supportive of us. And they have this massive online audience.”
Check out the full article and listen to the segment, here: