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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 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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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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Texas Republicans Embrace Marijuana, Put Decriminalization in State Party Platform

June 7, 2019
Politics

The 2018 Texas Republican Convention finished up this past weekend, and many pressing issues were on the agenda. In a clear sign of the times, the firmly red state added planks into their party platform expressing sympathy with relaxing marijuana laws. “Texas Republicans, like the majority of Americans, are ready to see more sensible marijuana

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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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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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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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Did Justin Amash Want Brett Kavanaugh’s Life Ruined by Leftist Witch Hunt?

October 14, 2018
Politics

While Republicans everywhere were cheering and pounding brews following Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court last week, the Queen of the Never Trumpers – Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) – was whining alongside the liberals. The former Ron Paul revolutionary turned sniveling Jeff Flake Republican took to Twitter to whine following Kavanaugh’s confirmation. The Republican

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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’s Wife Calls Out Democrats For Leak Of Senator’s Private Cell, Aggressive Harassment

October 4, 2018
Politics

The wife of Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Kelley Paul, has called out Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) for his recent vocal endorsement of aggressive intimidation of Republican politicians by left-wing activists, in an op-ed for CNN. “I now keep a loaded gun by my bed,” Mrs. Paul wrote. “Our security systems have had to be expanded.

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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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McCain Booed At Turning Point Event After Being Called Out By Rand Paul

July 25, 2018
News/Politics

Neoconservative Senator John McCain (R-AZ), a nemesis of President Donald Trump, received boos at Turning Point USA’s High School Leadership Summit when his name was mentioned by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) as an individual who derailed Trump’s Obamacare repeal efforts. “The reason we didn’t repeal is because we have six or seven Republican senators who

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Rand Paul Traveling To Russia To Continue Trump Administration’s Russia Outreach

July 17, 2018
News/Politics

In the wake of the Trump-Putin summit, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has announced in a Politico op-ed that he will be making his own trip to Russia in order to further improve its relations with the United States. “In just a few weeks, I will take my own trip to Russia in an attempt to

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Southern Poverty Law Center Targets Anti-Establishment Leftists In Russia Conspiracy Theory

March 12, 2018
News/Politics

Leftist-anarchists in the US, apparently displeased with mainstream liberal Russia conspiracies, have decided to aid the western intelligence agencies by concocting an even more outrageous ‘Russian plot.’ On Friday, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the liberal go-to non-profit for “tracking hate groups,” published a piece by red and black anarchist author and geography lecturer

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Can Populism Be The Savior of Conservatism?

March 12, 2018
Politics

Raucous cheers of “USA, USA, USA,” flowed through the crowds at President Donald Trump’s Saturday-night rally to support Republican congressional candidate Rick Saccone in Moon Township, Pennsylvania. The speech was quintessentially populist, or rather, “Trumpian,” free flowing, direct, braggadocious, and sometimes quite humorous. Trump then took time to critique a recent piece by Peggy Noonan

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Wakanda Forever!

March 9, 2018
Culture/Politics

Marvel’s Black Panther is smashing box office records left and right, due in no small part to the mainstream media’s dogmatic marketing campaign, while triggering strong emotions left and right, if you catch my drift. There has been much talk of the politics of this movie and yet they cannot be overstated. Set in an

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Metal-import taxes will make America rusty again

March 8, 2018
Economics/Politics

President Trump deserves applause for boosting the prospects for this county’s forgotten manufacturing workers, notably in steel and aluminum. Democrats lately have neglected these Americans. Hillary Clinton barely campaigned among them in Michigan in fall 2016, and she thoroughly ignored them in Wisconsin. Alas, Trump is doing this all wrong. He likely will hurt the very

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Against Free Trade Dogmatism

March 8, 2018
Economics/Politics

President Donald Trump announced last week that he plans on slapping a 25 percent tariff on steel and a 10 percent tariff on aluminum. Everyone seemingly lost their minds in response. Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals, and the mainstream media all had the same reaction: they universally opposed it. Where’s the other side to

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The Liberty Conservative Endorses Rick Saccone In PA-18 Special Election

March 8, 2018
News/Politics/Press Releases

The Liberty Conservative has announced its endorsement of Pennyslvania State Rep. Rick Saccone in the special election for Pennsylvania’s 18th congressional district. Saccone, who served as a principled conservative and a champion of limited government in the state legislature, defeated two establishment Republicans opponents to clinch the nomination, and now faces Clinton ally Conor Lamb.

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There Are Fewer School Shootings Now Than During the 1990s

March 2, 2018
Politics

Now that I have several children, I’m often in the company of other parents who talk about the way things “used to be.” When the issue of child safety comes up, I hear parents sadly shake their heads and say things like “it’s not like it was when we were kids … the world is

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The Myth of America’s “Stingy” Welfare State

March 2, 2018
Economics/Politics

According to the usual news sources, Donald Trump’s new budget proposal “envisions steep cuts to America’s social safety net” and will “gut social programs.” Most of the cuts were proposed to pave the way for more Pentagon spending.  In truth, Trump’s proposal doesn’t matter, and Congress will set to work piling on more deficit spending for both social

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CPAC’s foes hurl fake racism charges at Right’s venerable gathering

March 1, 2018
Politics

American Conservative Union communications director Ian Walters, ACU chairman Matt Schlapp, and the ACU-sponsored Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) are being accused of racism due to Walters’ comments at last Friday’s Ronald Reagan dinner. These phony charges deserve rejection and scorn. I attended that banquet and watched Schlapp invite Walters to the stage for an

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What’s Next for Gun Policy Reform?

February 28, 2018
Politics

With pressure on both the administration and congressional leaders to move forward with gun policy reforms, it was no surprise that Monday’s White House Press briefing received a myriad of questions regarding President Trump’s position on various gun policy proposal. President Trump has met with students and parents of Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School, state Governors,

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Freedom Caucus Candidate Prevails In AZ-8 Special Election Primary

February 28, 2018
News/Politics

Former State Sen. Debbie Lesko prevailed on Tuesday in the Republican special election primary to succeed outgoing Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) in Arizona’s 8th congressional district with 35.8% of the vote, beating her nearest challenger, former State Sen. Steve Montenegro, by 11 points. Lesko had been endorsed by Freedom Caucus leaders Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) and

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