Steve Deace

Steven James Deace (born July 28, 1973) is an American conservative talk show host and author. His program The Steve Deace Show is on the Blaze Media platform.

Early life Deace was born Steven James McNeely on July 28, 1973 to Vickie McNeely, who was 14 years old and not married at the time. She went on to raise him and one other child as a single mother in the Grand Rapids, Michigan area.

Deace endorsed Ted Cruz for president in 2016 and worked as a senior campaign operative in Iowa for Cruz's presidential campaign. In February 2016, Cruz would go on to win the Iowa caucuses. After Cruz dropped out of the race in May 2016, he posted a voter registration form with a check mark next to "no party" in response to calls for Republican unity behind Donald Trump and his presidential campaign. He went on to vote for the Constitution Party's candidate, Darrell Castle, in the general election.

In 2017, Deace's program moved to CRTV, a conservative streaming platform. Later that year, he defended Steve Bannon's role in the White House and argued that it would be a mistake for Trump to fire Bannon because of the signal it would send to conservatives. In 2018, his program moved to BlazeTV after CRTV merged with it.

During the 2020 election, Deace announced he was voting for Trump. When it appeared that Joe Biden was defeating Trump, Deace cast doubt about the validity of the vote in swing states and said, "When you went to bed Trump was ahead and the counting miraculously stopped. When you woke up it resumed, with Biden garnering Chavez-like totals in the dead of night. This is a coup."

Deace is a COVID-19 vaccine skeptic, believing it to be part of a “depopulation scheme”. He has referred to vaccines as "poison".

In August 2023, Deace endorsed Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in the 2024 presidential primary.

Personal life He and his wife, Amy, have three children. Deace is a Christian and converted in 2003 after attending a Promise Keepers rally.