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Supreme Court Declines Rand Paul Attacker’s Appeal

April 27, 2020
Law/News

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined an appeal made by Rene Boucher, a man who brutally attacked Rand Paul in 2017, after the 6th Court of Appeals declared his initial District Court sentence too lenient, the Washington Examiner reports. Boucher had petitioned the Supreme Court for a review of the case after the Court of

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Mulvaney Aides Leave West Wing Following Meadows Shake-Up

April 27, 2020
News/Politics

Several top aides to former White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney have been shifted out of the West Wing following the ascension of new White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. Many believed Meadows would serve as a continuation of Mulvaney’s tenure, given the close relationship between the two men as co-founders of the

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Gov. Noem Defends Keeping South Dakota Open: “I Believe In People’s Freedoms And Liberties”

April 27, 2020
News/Politics

Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) has defended her policy not to pursue a full lockdown in South Dakota in a Wednesday interview with Breitbart News. Noem noted that past projections of a “surge” in the coronavirus outbreak have turned out to be false, before noting the relatively low numbers of hospitalized individuals. “I think we’ve got

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Report: Mark Meadows Courting Evangelical Voters On Trump’s Behalf

April 27, 2020
News/Politics

White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is serving as an unofficial liaison between the Trump administration and conservative Evangelical Christian groups, according to a report by The Daily Beast. Meadows comes from a more traditional conservative background than his libertarian predecessor, Mick Mulvaney, despite the heavy ideological overlap between the two fiscal hawks. One

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Amash Mulling Presidential Bid

April 27, 2020
News/Politics

U.S. Rep. Justin Amash (I-MI) is mulling a presidential run, according to a report by CNN. “He has been discussing the potential campaign with his family, his friends, his team, and others, and a decision can be expected soon,” the Amash campaign stated. By emerging as a vocal opponent of the President, the renegade Congressman

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Dr. Rand Paul: Coronavirus “Less Deadly” Than Expected

April 27, 2020
News/Politics

Rand Paul (R-KY) called for reopening the U.S. economy during a speech on the Senate floor on Tuesday, in the wake of new studies suggesting the coronavirus is significantly less deadly than previously anticipated. “No amount of money, not all the money in China will save us from ourselves,” Paul stated. “Our only hope of

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Mick Mulvaney To Focus On Brexit In New Role

April 27, 2020
News/World

Former White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney has said he will focus on the impact of Brexit in his new role as U.S. Special Envoy to Northern Ireland, according to a report by the Irish Times. Mulvaney, an Irish-American himself, suggested he was studying the impact of the coronavirus crisis on Brexit in the

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Thomas Massie’s Primary Opponent Disavowed By Key Supporters

April 27, 2020
News/Politics

Senior congressional Republicans and pro-Israel groups have abandoned Todd McMurtry, the primary challenger to libertarian-minded Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), after racist remarks by McMurtry emerged on social media. House Republican Conference Chair Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) denounced the remarks and asked that her donation to McMurtry’s campaign be returned, as did Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH).

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Nigel Farage Rails Against Globalism At CPAC

March 1, 2020
News/Politics

Former Member of the European Parliament Nigel Farage slammed globalism during his speech at the 2020 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Friday. “What globalism is all about is of course destroying the nation-state, taking away its symbols, taking away its identity, replacing it with this new global order, and of course the European Union

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President Trump Lists Off Accomplishments At CPAC 2020

March 1, 2020
News/Politics

President Trump listed his achievements as President of the United States at the 2020 Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday. President Donald Trump had been running late to his allotted speaking time at CPAC this year, as Secret Service secured all entries and exits to the auditorium while the crowd eagerly looked around waiting to

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Candace Owens Takes On Kaepernick At CPAC

February 29, 2020
News/Politics

Conservative commentator Candace Owens exposed the hypocrisy of left-wing activist Colin Kaepernick during a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday. During her speech, she described liberals as a “doomsday cult” due to their paranoid fear-mongering about the Trump administration’s agenda. One prominent leftist she drew attention to was NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick,

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Rand Paul: Congressional GOP Failing To Stand By Trump On Afghanistan

February 18, 2020
News/World

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has suggested that President Trump remains largely alone in the Republican Party in his push to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan, in an interview with Breitbart News which was published on Tuesday. “I think the president is sincere when he says he wants to end these long wars,” Paul stated. “He

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Rep. Massie: Trump “Deserves The Nobel Peace Prize” If He Ends Afghan War

February 16, 2020
News/World

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) has called for President Donald Trump to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize if the President in successful in his efforts to negotiate a peace deal with the Taliban and subsequently end the War in Afghanistan. “It’s refreshing to see peace being seriously discussed. The next step is bringing our brave

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Rand Paul Censored By YouTube After Naming Whistleblower

February 15, 2020
News/Politics/Tech

A video of Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) naming whistleblower Eric Ciaramella on the Senate floor was removed from the platform on Thursday. The video featured Paul asking Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) about Ciaramella’s ties to the Democratic Party during the impeachment hearing. “Are you aware that House Intelligence Committee staffer Sean Misko had a close relationship

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Pro-Trump Group Raises $50K For Rand Paul

February 11, 2020
News/Politics

A pro-Trump organization known as The Trumpettes has announced that it raised $50,000 for the re-election campaign of Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) at an event at the President’s Mar-a-Lago club in West Palm Beach on Friday. Sen. Paul spoke at the fundraiser about tackling the rise of socialism in the United States, and how the

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Rand Paul To Campaign For Trump In New Hampshire Primary

February 9, 2020
News/Politics

The Donald Trump presidential campaign has announced that Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) will act as a surrogate for the President in the New Hampshire Republican primary. Paul was featured in a statement listing 20 surrogates issued by Trump campaign National Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Friday. The New Hampshire Republican primary is widely expected to

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Trump Backs Massie’s Call To Fire Vindman

February 8, 2020
News/Politics

President Donald Trump has fired Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman, the Director of European Affairs at the National Security Council, after Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) called on the President to dismiss him in a Saturday tweet. “I’d fire him. I listened to his testimony in the SCIF. He’s a leaker, not a whistleblower. Vindman was upset

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Mulvaney To Stay On As White House Chief of Staff

February 8, 2020
News/Politics

President Donald Trump has announced White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney will stay on in his role as acting White House Chief of Staff. The news comes following a CNN report that Mulvaney had lost the confidence of the President, and was likely to be replaced with former Freedom Caucus chair Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) within

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Bannon Questions Soleimani Killing

January 8, 2020
News/World

Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon appeared to question the recent targeted killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani by a U.S. drone strike during an interview with the New York Times published on Tuesday. Bannon indicated that the move would hurt Trump’s support among “working-class, middle-class people, particularly people whose sons and daughters actually

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Rand Paul: Saudis “More Than Capable” Of Retaliating Against Iran Alone

September 19, 2019
News/World

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) urged the United States to stay out of the ongoing dispute between Saudi Arabia and Iran following a recent attack on two oil processing facilities in Saudi Arabia during a Thursday interview. “If you add Saudi Arabia’s military budget to all their allies, all these Gulf Sheikhdoms that surround Saudi Arabia,

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Corey Lewandowski: Mulvaney’s “In Trump’s Corner”

September 11, 2019
News/Politics

Prospective U.S. Senate candidate Corey Lewandowski, the former manager of the 2016 Donald Trump presidential campaign, has hailed acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney for his work in the administration in a Tuesday op-ed in The Hill. Lewandowski, a Trump loyalist, described Mulvaney as “one of the unsung heroes of the Trump administration” in the

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Rep. Massie: Jail Comey And Strzok!

August 25, 2019
News/Politics

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) has called for former FBI Director James Comey and disgraced FBI official Peter Strzok to be jailed following the disclosure by former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne that both were involved in urging him to pursue a romantic relationship with alleged Russian spy Maria Butina. “The feds should let Maria Butina out

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Former Rep. Joe Walsh Launches Primary Challenge To Trump

August 25, 2019
News/Politics

Former U.S. Representative Joe Walsh (R-IL) on Sunday announced that he will be challenging incumbent President Donald Trump in the 2020 Republican presidential primaries. “I’m in. We can’t take four more years of Donald Trump,” Walsh wrote on Twitter. “And that’s why I’m running for President.” Walsh is the second challenger to announce his run,

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Thomas Massie: “180 degrees diametrically opposed” To Amash’s Impeachment Call

May 21, 2019
News/Politics

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) on Monday rejected a call by close ally Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) for the impeachment of President Donald Trump. Speaking to the Washington Post, Massie, a supporter of the President’s, claimed to have been blindsided by Amash’s remarks, and clarified that he was “180 degrees diametrically opposed” to them. “When you quote

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Libertarians Set To Win Knesset Seats In Israeli Elections

March 10, 2019
News/World

Israel’s libertarian party, Zehut, is set to pass the electoral threshold to win Knesset seats in next month’s Israeli elections, according to three consecutive national polls. Polls conducted by Haaretz/Dialog Institute, Israel Hayom/i24 News and Israeli public broadcaster Kan all show Zehut winning 4 seats in the upcoming elections. While this is a small number,

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Trump Slams Green New Deal At CPAC

March 3, 2019
News/Politics

President Donald Trump tore into the Democrats’ proposal for a Green New Deal during his “totally off script” speech at CPAC on Saturday. “The ‘new green deal’ or whatever the hell they call it. The new green deal, right? I encourage it, I think it’s really something they should promote,” Trump proclaimed to the packed

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Pence Summarizes Trump’s Achievements at CPAC

March 2, 2019
News/Politics

Vice President Mike Pence chose to use his Friday speech at CPAC in order to summarize Trump’s record of success as President of the United States. “Under President Donald Trump, working Americans are winning again.  The forgotten men and women of America are forgotten no more,” Pence declared. Pence then went on to list Trump’s

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Mulvaney At CPAC: Prospect Of Peace With North Korea Still On The Table

March 1, 2019
News/World

Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Reagan Dinner on Friday, Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney argued that the failure to reach a deal between President Trump and Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un during their recent meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam would not serve as an barrier to future peace talks. “The President

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Establishment Sen. Richard Shelby: Chief of Staff Mulvaney Is “Dangerous”

February 16, 2019
News/Politics

Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), an establishment stalwart, reportedly described White House Budget Director and acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney as “dangerous”, according to a New York Times report on Friday. The remarks came during a check-in session briefing members of Congress on the status of budget negotiations. Shelby, an architect of the bi-partisan deal

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Rand Paul Slams Ultimate Budget Deal As “Massive, Bloated, Secretive”

February 15, 2019
News/Politics

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has expressed his opposition to the bi-partisan deal to keep the federal government open as a waste of taxpayer funds, as well as President Donald Trump’s decision to announce a state of emergency to acquire funds for a border wall. “I’m disappointed with both the massive, bloated, secretive bill that just

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Massie Slams House Republicans For Leftward Shift

February 14, 2019
News/Politics

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) spoke out against House Republicans for shifting away from their principles and towards the ideological center, as a response to their Democratic counterparts embracing far-left ideas, in a tweet sent out on Monday. “Side effect of House Democrats embracing full bore socialism, no borders, 3rd trimester abortions, gun bans, & fiscal

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Rand Paul: Trump’s Wall Deal Is “Big Victory” Over Democrats

February 14, 2019
News/Politics

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) praised President Donald Trump’s deal with congressional Democrats as a major concession by the opposition to Trump’s drive for border security funding. “I think in the end, Trump won a big victory here, because everybody else had folded,” Paul told Breitbart News. “At Christmastime, everybody else was folding, and just saying,

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Rand Paul Votes Against Trump AG Pick

February 14, 2019
News/Politics

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) voted in opposition to President Donald Trump’s nominee for Attorney-General, William Barr, on the grounds that the nominee would not do enough to safeguard the privacy of Americans from government surveillance. “I’m a no,” he told Politico on Monday. “He’s been the chief advocate for warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens. I

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Rand Paul: Trump “Steadfast” In Support For Troop Withdrawals

February 3, 2019
News/Politics

Sen. Rand Paul firmly rejected reports that we are set to see a shift from President Donald Trump on withdrawal from Syria and Afghanistan during Wednesday’s State of the Union address during an interview with Fox News’ Bill Hemmer on Thursday. “I talked to the President last night and I think the President is steadfast

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Rand Paul Slams McConnell On Afghanistan, Syria

February 3, 2019
News/Politics

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) had a scathing response to a resolution by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) rebuking President Donald Trump’s efforts to withdraw U.S. military presence from Syria and Afghanistan. “The United States faces continuing threats from terrorist groups operating in Syria and Afghanistan and … the precipitous withdrawal of United States forces

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Rand Paul Feared Leftist Assailant Would Kill Him During Attack

January 29, 2019
News/Politics

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) told the jury at the Warren Circuit Court during a testimony on Monday that he feared Rene Boucher, a left-wing extremist, would attack him during Boucher’s brutal attack on Paul last year, according to reports by the Associated Press and the Bowling Green Daily News. Paul claimed he was disembarking his

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Rep. Massie “Very Proud” of Nick Sandmann, Offering Him Internship

January 26, 2019
News/Politics

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) has defended Nick Sandmann, the Trump supporting Covington High School student who was confronted by a left-wing Native American activist following this week’s March for Life. Sandmann is a constituent of Massie’s in Kentucky’s 3rd congressional district, where the school is located. “I’m very proud of Nick,” Massie said when asked

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Rand Paul Attacker On Trial Next Week

January 26, 2019
News/Politics

Rene Boucher, the radical leftist responsible for the brutal attack on his neighbor, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is set to go on trial next week in Warren County Circuit Court, according to the Bowling Green Daily News. A Clinton-appointed judge gave Boucher a lenient sentence of a mere 30 days for the attack, which left the Senator

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New Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Moves To Legalize Smokable Medical Marijuana

January 17, 2019
News/Politics

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced on Thursday that he intends to end the state’s prohibition on smokeable medical marijuana, FOX 35 Orlando reports. “I’m announcing today is the lawsuit that’s challenging the smoking ban, we’re going to be filing a stay of decision on that till mid-March,” he declared.

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Rand Paul Hits Back Against Media After Misleading Canada Surgery Reports

January 16, 2019
News/Politics

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has hit back against a flurry of misleading reports in the liberal media which suggested that he was a hypocrite for seeking medical treatment in a clinic based in Canada, which has a system of socialized universal health care, despite being an opponent of introducing such a system in the United

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Massie Backs Steve King: “Not Ready To Censure A Man Based On A New York Times Article”

January 15, 2019
News/Politics

Libertarian-leaning Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) has defended Rep. Steve King (R-IA) in the wake of racism allegations made against King following a controversial interview King had with the New York Times. “I know Steve King personally, I’ve known him for 6 years. In my presence he’s never said anything racist and I’m not ready to censure

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Massie Bravely Resists Efforts To Pay Bureaucrats For Doing Nothing

January 14, 2019
News/Politics

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) was one of 7 Congressmen to vote on Friday against the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act, which ensures back pay for federal bureaucrats after the end of the ongoing partial government shutdown. “When you pass a law to pay ALL FUTURE government salaries regardless of whether the government is funded or not,

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Pompeo Publicly Backs Syria Withdrawal: Troop Presence “No Longer Makes Sense”

December 22, 2018
News/Politics

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo demonstrated his loyalty to the President by publicly backing Trump’s Syria withdrawal, despite reportedly privately disagreeing with it beforehand. “The U.S. efforts under President Trump in Syria have had extraordinary success. We’ve taken away more than 90 percent of the ISIS caliphate. … We will continue to keep the homeland

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Rand Paul’s Alliance with Mitch McConnell Pays Off, Industrial Hemp Estimated as $20 Billion Industry

December 13, 2018
News

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) was decried for attempting to mend fences with Senate leadership shortly after winning his seat as a tea party firebrand. He became colleagues with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, in a move that infuriated many conservative activists as well as his father’s radical libertarian supporters. But it seems like Sen. Paul’s

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Orwellian Lynch Mob Attacks Right-Wing EMT, Putting Lives in Jeopardy

December 12, 2018
News

The digital lynch mobs of the Left, which regularly target right-wing activists and tries to destroy their lives, have gone too far this time. They are targeting an EMT, putting potential lives in jeopardy to enforce their Orwellian anti-American political agenda. The attack originated with this Huffington Post article: “Alex McNabb, a white supremacist podcaster

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Thomas Massie’s Olive Branch Rejected by Brazenly Radical Leftists

October 14, 2018
News

Sen. Rand Paul’s wife, Kelley, is currently waging a press campaign to stop the extremism of the Democratic Party that threatens the foundation of our Republic. She attempted to plead with Sen. Cory Booker (R-NJ), the angry thuggish Senator from Newark who urged his minions to harass and terrorize his political opposition, to call the

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Leftist Protesters Harass Rand Paul At DC Airport, Bizarrely Accusing Him Of Sexual Violence

October 6, 2018
News/Politics

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) endured a confrontation by aggressive left-wing demonstrators earlier this week, when a mob showed up to harass the Kentucky Senator at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in D.C. over his decision to support the nomination of Brett Kavanuagh to the Supreme Court of the United States. In a video released by

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Rand Paul Calls For Lie Detector Tests To Identify Deep State NYT Op-Ed Writer

September 7, 2018
News/Politics

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has called for lie detector tests in order to identify the author of an anonymous New York Times op-ed, who claimed to be a senior administration official working to undermine President Donald Trump from within his own government. “It’s not unprecedented for people with security clearances to be asked whether or not

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Thomas Massie Backs Trump On Bilateral Trade: “His Intuition On Some Of These Things Is Right”

July 27, 2018
News/Politics/World

Although Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) strongly disagrees with some of the Trump administration’s trade policies, he was quick to point out some areas of common ground in an interview with Reason on Wednesday, particularly with regards to the World Trade Organization. “His intuition on some of these things is right,” Massie said. “I do not like the

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Freedom Caucus’ Jim Jordan Running For Speaker In 2019

July 26, 2018
News/Politics

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), a leading figure within the libertarian-leaning Freedom Caucus, will run for Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives next year, according to a letter he sent to colleagues on Thursday. “Should the American people entrust us with the majority again in the 116th Congress, I plan to run for Speaker of

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