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Rebekah Mercer is an American heiress and Republican political donor, and director of the Mercer Family Foundation. Mercer began overseeing day-to-day operations of political projects for the Mercer family when the Mercers became involved in conservative causes. Her father, billionaire Robert Mercer, said in November 2017 that he had sold his stake in the news site Breitbart to his daughters. In August 2018, she funded and co-founded the social networking service Parler. Early life and education Mercer is the second of three daughters of Diana Lynne (Dean) and billionaire hedge fund manager Robert Mercer. She was raised in Yorktown Heights, New York, a suburb of New York City.Mercer enrolled at Cornell University and later transferred to Stanford University, where she studied biology and mathematics and earned a master's degree in 1999 in management science and engineering. Career She worked as a Wall Street trader at Renaissance Technologies, the hedge fund her father helped lead. In 2006, Mercer and her sisters purchased Ruby et Violette, a New York City company that sells cookies and brownies online. Political involvement Mercer first became engaged in conservative politics in 2012 after Mitt Romney's defeat in the 2012 presidential election. She spoke to a group of wealthy conservative donors at the University Club of New York about what the Republican Party had done wrong in canvassing and technology operations during the election. In 2010, she bought six adjoining apartment units in Donald Trump's 41-story Heritage at Trump Place.The following year, in 2013, Mercer helped start Reclaim New York with Steve Bannon. The organization trains citizens to watch their government closely, and uses freedom of information laws to force the New York government to disclose public spending.In 2014, Mercer joined The Heritage Foundation's board of trustees.In September 2016, Politico called her "the most powerful woman in GOP politics." She has been more aligned with the anti-establishment part of the Republican Party than most big Republican donors. Newsmax Media owner Christopher Ruddy called her the "First Lady of the Alt-Right".Mercer supported Mitt Romney in the 2012 Republican Party presidential primaries. 2016 presidential election In 2016, Mercer supported Ted Cruz in the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries. She led Keep the Promise I, a Super PAC, which was the largest source of financial support in support of Cruz's campaign.After Donald Trump secured the Republican nomination, however, she and her father switched their support to Trump. Mercer supported Jeff Sessions for U.S. Attorney General and against Mitt Romney, who Trump was considering for U.S. Secretary of State.Mercer and her father contributed $25 million during the 2016 presidential election.In June 2016, Mercer created the Defeat Crooked Hillary PAC, and ran the organization's daily operations. The PAC was incorporated with the Federal Election Commission as Make America Number 1 and supported Trump in the general election, including making anti-Hillary Clinton advertisements.During the 2016 presidential election, Mercer proposed creating a searchable database for Hillary Clinton's e-mails in the public domain and then forwarded this suggestion to several people, including Alexander Nix the CEO of Cambridge Analytica, who e-mailed the request to Julian Assange. Assange denied Nix's request. Mercer worked with Steve Bannon to create the film Clinton Cash. She has consulted extensively with former Democratic strategist and pollster Patrick Caddell on campaigns.The Mercers stood behind Trump following release of the Access Hollywood tape was leaked in late 2016, dismissing Trump's claim of grabbing women's genitals against their will as "locker room braggadocio." Trump administration Mercer directs the Mercer Family Foundation and served on the executive committee of Trump's presidential transition team.People close to the transition said she opposed Corey Lewandowski as RNC chair, noting that Lewandowski had reportedly resisted paying for services from Cambridge Analytica, a data firm funded by the Mercers early in the campaign, though a close associate of Mercer's denied the stories. Lewandowski was not, however, supported for the RNC position and did not obtain it. Paul Manafort, Kellyanne Conway's predecessor as campaign director, who was also said to be critical of Cambridge Analytica, had worked for Ted Cruz and was financially backed by the Mercers. Conway reportedly said that, after Trump's inauguration, the expectation was that Mercer would likely lead an outside group, funded by her father, aimed at bolstering Trump's agenda. It was assumed that Cambridge Analytica would also assist the group's efforts.The Mercers first introduced Steve Bannon to Donald Trump. Mercer helped create the film Clinton Cash with Bannon, a top political adviser to Trump at the time. She has been one of Bannon's main financial contributors.In late 2017, Bannon told several conservative donors that Mercer had pledged her financial support if he decided to run for president in 2020 against Trump. However, Mercer was frustrated by his comments to the media and disagreed with his public comments in support for Roy Moore, who was under fire for sexual misconduct allegations involving young girls. In January 2018, a person familiar with conversations between Mercer and Bannon said Mercer would no longer back Bannon financially. Mercer said that she had not spoken to Bannon, the former White House chief strategist in the early months of the Trump administration, in many months but that she continued to support Trump. Breitbart News Mercer and her father, Robert Mercer were key financial benefactors for Breitbart News. Larry Solov, the CEO of Breitbart, said in February 2017 that the Mercers are part-owners of the media outlet. Robert Mercer announced in November 2017 that he had sold his stake in the website to his daughters. Cambridge Analytica Cambridge Analytica was a privately held data mining and data analysis company with financial backing from the Mercers. The Mercers invested in the company after Mitt Romney lost the 2012 presidential election. On May 1, 2018, Cambridge Analytica and its parent company filed for insolvency proceedings and closed operations.Alexander Tayler, a former director for Cambridge Analytica, was appointed director of Emerdata on March 28, 2018. Rebekah Mercer, Jennifer Mercer, Alexander Nix and Johnson Chun Shun Ko who has links to Erik Prince are in leadership positions at Emerdata. RAM Veterans Foundation In May 2022, Mercer was credited with creating RAM Veterans Foundation, named in honor of Robert Alexander Mercer who died in France during World War II. RAM Veterans Foundation is an organization that reviews and recommends veterans charities to donors at CharitiesForVets.com. Parler In 2018, Mercer co-founded, and funded, the social media website Parler with John Matze .... Discover the Rebekah Gregory popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Rebekah Gregory books.