{"id":120508,"date":"2021-02-08T00:05:35","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T05:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=120508"},"modified":"2021-02-08T00:42:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T05:42:41","slug":"candace-owens-teases-presidential-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/candace-owens-teases-presidential-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Candace Owens Teases Presidential Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcandace-owens-teases-presidential-run%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=120508&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Candace-Owens.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Over the weekend, conservative commentator Candace Owens,&nbsp;who has a forthcoming talkshow with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-candace-owens-is-joining-daily-wire\">The Daily Wire<\/a>, teased a potential run for President of the United States in social media posts that went viral.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love America,\u201d she posted to Twitter on Saturday. \u201cThinking about running for President.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I love America. Thinking about running for President. \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealCandaceO\/status\/1358172922360320010?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 6, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One critic responded to Owens, \u201cToday\u2019s GOP is fundamentally an authoritarian white nationalist party. Candace Owen[s] would NEVER be their nominee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The author and new mother quote-tweeted the post and responded: \u201cThis won\u2019t age well.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This won\u2019t age well. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Drhce5vw7s\">https:\/\/t.co\/Drhce5vw7s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealCandaceO\/status\/1358430308740325384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hours following Owens\u2019 tease at a run for POTUS, the commentator, who has become an increasingly prominent voice on the right, emphasized that it\u2019s \u201can&nbsp;important time in our country,\u201d urging Republicans to \u201c[s]peak up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re smarter than a 5th grader, you realize that the radical Left is trying to brainwash the world into believing January 6th was similar to 9\/11 or Pearl Harbor,\u201d Owens said, referring to the breach of the U.S. Capitol led by far-right election protesters. \u201cAbsurd. Just a sloppy attempt to justify censoring, surveilling &amp; treating half our country like terrorists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u201cEvery good dictator needs a \u2018reason\u2019 and a \u2018justification\u2019 for locking up, censoring, and criminalizing all acts of political dissent,\u201d she said. \u201cThat is why I will<\/span> <span class=\"r-18u37iz\"><a class=\"css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NeverForgetJanury6th?src=hashtag_click\" data-focusable=\"true\">#NeverForgetJanury6th<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Because it\u2019s become a justification for evil against half our country who remain innocent.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor any conservatives who do not have the courage to admit this and are capitulating to the sweeping acts that are being committed against citizens\u2014including President Trump\u2014you will come to regret such spinelessness,\u201d she said in part in reference to social media platforms censoring voices on the right. \u201cThis is an important time in our country,\u201d she added. \u201cSpeak up.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If you\u2019re smarter than a 5th grader, you realize that the radical Left is trying to brainwash the world into believing January 6th was similar to 9\/11 or Pearl Harbor.<\/p>\n<p>Absurd.<\/p>\n<p>Just a sloppy attempt to justify censoring, surveilling &amp; treating half our country like terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealCandaceO\/status\/1358482448737255426?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">For any conservatives who do not have the courage to admit this and are capitulating to the sweeping acts that are being committed against citizens\u2014including President Trump\u2014you will come to regret such spinelessness.<\/p>\n<p>This is an important time in our country.<\/p>\n<p>Speak up.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealCandaceO\/status\/1358484488586723328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In November, Owens, who founded&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blexitfoundation.org\">BLEXIT<\/a>, zeroed-in on the biased treatment against conservatives from Big Tech, a massive concern on the right, with her announcement of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/candace-owens-challenges-fact-checker-and-wins\">lawsuit<\/a> against Facebook \u201cfact-checkers\u201d from Lead Stories and USA Today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is time to fact-check the fact-checkers,\u201d Owens&nbsp;said in a video post at the time of the announcement. \u201cI\u2019m going to put these suckers through discovery and figure out what the relationship&nbsp;is that they have with Facebook.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to show that these fact-checkers just lie, and they usually go unchecked because most people don\u2019t have the money, don\u2019t have the time, and don\u2019t have the platform to go after them \u2014 and I have all three,\u201d she told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/candace-owens-challenges-fact-checker-and-wins\">The Daily Wire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/candace-owens-talks-pregnancy-big-tech-and-future-of-the-right\">The Daily Wire<\/a> in January, Owens gave her insight into the future of the Republican Party, stating that the party has changed permanently.&nbsp;\u201cI think some people in the Republican Party are operating under a delusion that if Trump is gone, they can manufacture the party back into the McCain-establishment type party that it once was, but they are sorely mistaken,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my entire life, I have never seen or felt an energy in this country quite like I am seeing today,\u201d Owens continued.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;\u201c<\/span>Think about it: the media had lost so much control of the narrative, that censorship seems for them to be the only option\u2026 People aren\u2019t listening to the pundits, the polls, or the celebrities anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked what that means for 2021, Owens responded: \u201cPolitically, get ready.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe we are on the brink of a purge on the conservative side of things. Many leaders who were once hailed as potential 2024 presidential candidates are now being viewed as traitors,\u201d she told The Daily Wire. \u201cSome of that criticism is fair \u2014 not all of it. Similarly, on the Democrat side, the moderates who have been pretending to support these far-left radical stances for the sake of votes are going to have to contend with the progressive wing within their own party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/candace-owens-talks-pregnancy-big-tech-and-future-of-the-right\">EXCLUSIVE: Candace Owens Talks Pregnancy, Big Tech and the Future of the&nbsp;Right<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, conservative commentator Candace Owens,\u00a0who has a forthcoming talkshow with The Daily Wire, teased a potential run for President of the United States in social media posts that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892846,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5722,5725,3849,5728],"class_list":["post-120508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-candace","tag-owens","tag-presidential","tag-teases"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}