{"id":1374150,"date":"2022-03-13T10:15:51","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T14:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1374150"},"modified":"2022-03-13T10:15:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T14:15:55","slug":"exclusive-combat-veteran-kent-keirsey-the-fight-for-freedom-is-at-home-not-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-combat-veteran-kent-keirsey-the-fight-for-freedom-is-at-home-not-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive \u2014 Combat Veteran Kent Keirsey: \u2018The Fight for Freedom\u2019 Is at Home, Not Abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fexclusive-combat-veteran-kent-keirsey-the-fight-for-freedom-is-at-home-not-abroad%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=1374150&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--><p class=\"subheading\">Republican candidate for office and Iraq War combat veteran Kent Keirsey spoke with Breitbart News about his campaign and how he realized \u201cthe fight for freedom was here, back at home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Keirsey outlined his experience as a combat veteran in Iraq in the early 2000s and how that led him to run for office.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>LISTEN:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI joined the military when I was 17, went to West Point, had no doubt in my mind that America was the greatest country on the face of the planet. And so I stepped up to serve that,\u201d Keirsey said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m proud that we still have men and women today that think of our country that way are willing to step up and serve and I think it\u2019s a noble profession. You know, that\u2019s one of the reasons I\u2019m running. I think that we need to have folks in office and understand that understand what it means to serve in Congress, in our country, especially these times when we have conflicts blowing up around the globe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Boyle discussed the high stakes in Keirsey\u2019s race in North Carolina\u2019s newly created 13th congressional district. Keirsey called out the \u201cactivist judges\u201d who redrew a pro-Republican map to make it more advantageous to Democrats.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We have a great Republican legislature here that put forward perfectly fine maps through our legislative process. We have some activist judges here in North Carolina that decided they wanted to draw the maps instead, made it where we had seven Republican seats, six democratic seats, and one contested seat, and that\u2019s where we\u2019re I\u2019m fighting to make sure that our delegation coming from North Carolina is Republican. 8-6.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The conversation switched gears to Keirsey\u2019s post-military life, and he talked about getting his business and law degrees then building small businesses \u201cto add value to the world.\u201d Keirsey built businesses in the healthcare and real estate industries.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I wanted to really understand what made this country great because I felt like, you know, while I was fighting for freedom abroad, and we have men and women doing that today, and that\u2019s important, that really the fight for freedom was here, back at home. And I went to understand on a visceral level what made our country great. So I went off, and I studied the law. I studied the Constitution, and then I went off to school obviously. I met folks that were starting businesses, veterans that have started their own business. And I thought to myself; this is a real way to add value to the world. You create businesses, you build things you employ, folks. This is where innovation happens.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Boyle then brought up the six West Point cadets who recently overdosed on drugs laced with fentanyl while on a spring break trip in Florida. Keirsey called the situation an \u201cabsolute tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can only imagine how heart breaking that is for for families. And I think you\u2019re absolutely right that we don\u2019t we don\u2019t need substances out on our streets that are going to kill people,\u201d Keirsey said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cOne part of the reason I\u2019m running for Congress here, I think we need to have folks that can approach this with with fresh heads and really attack the problem people are afraid of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Keirsey went on to talk about President Joe Biden\u2019s \u201ctragic\u201d foreign policy that he believes is an embarrassment to the country. \u201cI think you\u2019re right from a national security standpoint, the last year has been pretty tragic. The border is one part of this, we need to secure our borders in this country, it\u2019s an embarrassment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Half of it is that we need to actually have some common sense policies and invest in securing our border. The other half of it is we cannot signal to the world that they can just come here and violate our laws, and then we\u2019re gonna take care of them and write them checks. We need to signal the world that folks want to come to this country. They need to do so legally. And they need to come here with attitude. They\u2019re going to work hard and make a living here, not a handout.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Keirsey mentioned how Biden\u2019s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan inspired him to run for U.S. Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe managed to get 140,000 people out of there. In a short amount of time, our military did a great job on the ground and tactically and operationally to make sure that they pulled that off. I was I was shocked that we were able to get out there in the timeline that we did when it was really tragic to me was when we left folks behind,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17935914\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1234956914.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A U.S. Air Force aircraft departs Kabul on August 30, 2021. Joe Biden\u2019s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan inspired Keirsey to run for U.S. Congress. (AAMIR QURESHI\/AFP via Getty)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Keirsey fears that Biden\u2019s weak foreign policy will embolden our adversaries to engage in more conflict on the world stage. \u201cOur adversaries have seen the weakness that we showed there the our inability to win these conflicts, or our disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan and that\u2019s where you see Russia flexing his muscles in the Ukraine,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Turning to inflation, Keirsey called out Biden for blaming the increased inflation rates on Russian Leader Vladimir Putin. \u201cIt\u2019s not just that Putin invaded Ukraine, and even if you could blame it on Ukraine, I would turn back and say, this administration\u2019s policies gave Putin the sense that he could do that without repercussion,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Keirsey said massive government spending contributed to inflation, which he called a tax on the American people. \u201cYou\u2019re either taxing through inflation or you\u2019re taxing through, you know, over taxing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Breitbart News Saturday airs on SiriusXM Patriot 125 from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Eastern.<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican candidate for office and Iraq War combat veteran Kent Keirsey spoke with Breitbart News about his campaign and how he realized \u201cthe fight for freedom was here, back at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1374150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374150","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=1374150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1374150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1374150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1374150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}