{"id":1462827,"date":"2022-05-03T19:29:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T23:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1462827"},"modified":"2022-05-03T19:30:14","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T23:30:14","slug":"biden-and-pelosi-are-destroying-our-future-meet-some-of-the-youngest-republicans-running-for-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-and-pelosi-are-destroying-our-future-meet-some-of-the-youngest-republicans-running-for-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Biden And Pelosi Are Destroying Our Future\u2019: Meet Some Of The Youngest Republicans Running For Congress"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fbiden-and-pelosi-are-destroying-our-future-meet-some-of-the-youngest-republicans-running-for-congress%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=1462827&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>Two of the youngest Republicans running for Congress, 25-year-old Matthew Foldi and 24-year-old Karoline Leavitt, launched their campaigns to combat the Democrats who are \u201cruining\u201d America, they told the Daily Caller.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have time to waste and we don\u2019t have time to wait. Biden and Pelosi are destroying our future, and they\u2019re not going to be around to deal with the consequences,\u201d Foldi, who is running in Maryland\u2019s 6th Congressional District, said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocrats\u2019 unchecked, one-party rule is literally destroying the fabric of our country,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Maryland-native Foldi resigned from his investigative journalism career at the Washington Free Beacon in April and launched his campaign to defeat two-term multi-millionaire Democratic incumbent David Trone.<\/p>\n<p>Sixty-six-year-old Trone, for Foldi, is an example of how not to treat constituents, and is one of the factors that led him to aggressively campaign for the Maryland seat. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/27\/immigrants-communist-socialist-countries-gop-republican-party-freedom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Immigrants From Communist And Socialist Countries Spell Out Why The GOP Is The Party Of Freedom)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want the race to be about how all of David Trone\u2019s offices in his district are closed,\u201d and how he\u2019s a \u201cpart-time congressman\u201d who devotes his time to owning Total Wine &#038; More, Foldi said. \u201cIt is the job of Republican candidates to inform voters about the failures of our opponents, because we all know that the mainstream media will cover for Democrats until the cows come home.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7422414\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7422414\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of Matthew Foldi<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This will be Foldi\u2019s second time running for office, as he won Chicago\u2019s 2016 election for the Fifth Ward Republican committeeman. He is <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Matthew_Foldi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one<\/a> of six Republicans running to win the 6th Congressional district primary in July.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t ignore the fact that I\u2019m 25, but I think our voters understand that octogenarian Democrats are the cause of problems,\u201d Foldi said, mentioning President Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hodgetwins\/status\/1520751327311245313\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">laughing<\/a> at record-high inflation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVoters are ready for a new generation who say to Biden and Pelosi, \u2018time is up,&#8217;\u201d he added. \u201cWe are the opposite of Biden who is old, lethargic and doesn\u2019t know what day it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-four-year-old Leavitt is running for New Hampshire\u2019s 1st Congressional District. If she\u2019s successful in winning the seat, she will become the youngest representative <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/election-us-2020-54823890\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">since<\/a> 1965, overtaking Republican North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn\u2019s current hold on the title.<\/p>\n<p>Leavitt said she launched her campaign to oust Democratic incumbent and \u201cpuppet for Nancy Pelosi\u201d Chris Pappas out of office. Her age, she told the Daily Caller, has been an asset.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel compelled to stand up and change some hearts and minds of young people in New Hampshire and really across our country,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7422358\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7422358\" class=\"wp-image-7422358\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/FRg0QhTXsAI2NjZ.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/FRg0QhTXsAI2NjZ.jpg 680w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/FRg0QhTXsAI2NjZ-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/FRg0QhTXsAI2NjZ-620x465-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/FRg0QhTXsAI2NjZ-768x576-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/FRg0QhTXsAI2NjZ-1536x1152-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/FRg0QhTXsAI2NjZ-2048x1536-1.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/FRg0QhTXsAI2NjZ-190x142.jpg 190w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/FRg0QhTXsAI2NjZ-70x52.jpg 70w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7422358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of Karoline Leavitt<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cMy youth is a strength. \u2026 We need young, dynamic leaders on both sides of the aisle desperately in Washington, D.C.,\u201d she said. \u201cPeople like the fact that I am young, and that I\u2019m able to resonate with young voters and really change their minds on so many issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leavitt is <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/New_Hampshire%27s_1st_Congressional_District_election,_2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">running<\/a> against six other candidates to win the Republican primary in September. Prior to her campaign, she worked in the White House under former President Donald Trump and in Congress for Republican New York Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/28\/republican-female-candidates-elise-stefanik-elevate-pac\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elise Stefanik<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was raised in a strong conservative household. \u2026 I was taught from a very young age to work hard, to love God, to love my country and my family. I think those are conservative values that, frankly, we are lacking in our culture and in our society,\u201d Leavitt added.<\/p>\n<p>Because a majority of young people tend to vote Democrat, young people need \u201cto have the courage and be brave enough to speak out against what our entire culture says is appropriate,\u201d Leavitt concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of the youngest Republicans running for Congress, 25-year-old Matthew Foldi and 24-year-old Karoline Leavitt, launched their campaigns to combat the Democrats who are \u201cruining\u201d America, they told the Daily<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":488,"featured_media":1481483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1462827","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\/1462827","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\/488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1462827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1481483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1462827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1462827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1462827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}