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Travis Gettys

Politico owner: "Pray" for Trump to win

Mathias Döpfner, BDZV President and CEO of Axel Springer SE, speaks at the #beBETA digital congress organized by the German Association of Digital Publishers and Newspaper Publishers (BDZV). (Bernd von Jutrczenka/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Politico's new owner has publicly pledged to avoid partisan bias in the website's coverage but, behind the scenes, he appears to be a passionate supporter of Donald Trump.

German publishing giant Axel Springer purchased the fast-growing political journal last year for more than $1 billion, and its CEO Mathias Döpfner has expressed concern that legacy newspapers like the New York Times and Washington Post have drifted too far to the left while conservative media traffics in "alternative facts," reported the Washington Post.

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