{"id":523396,"date":"2021-05-18T21:35:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T01:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=523396"},"modified":"2021-05-18T21:35:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T01:35:14","slug":"mark-mccloskey-announces-senate-bid-in-missouri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-mccloskey-announces-senate-bid-in-missouri\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark McCloskey Announces Senate Bid In Missouri"},"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\">14<\/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%2Fmark-mccloskey-announces-senate-bid-in-missouri%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=523396&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\/05\/Screenshot-Alex-Salvi-@alexsalvinews-on-Twitter-scaled-e1621384532898.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"50.609404990403\">\n<p>Mark McCloskey, who received national attention during the Black Lives Matter protests as one member of the \u201cSt. Louis gun couple,\u201d announced Tuesday on Tucker Carlson that he is running for Senate in Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>McCloskey, who is a lawyer, is running to fill the seat of retiring Republican Missouri Senator Roy Blunt. He first <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/21\/mark-patricia-mccloskey-missouri-senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">floated<\/a> a Senate bid in April when he told Politico that running for Senate was \u201ca consideration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGod came knocking on my door last summer disguised as an angry mob, and it woke me up,\u201d McCloskey told Carlson. \u201cPeople don\u2019t want any more posers going to D.C. All we hear is talk. Nothing ever changes. It seemed to me that people have to stand up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCloskey slammed the Biden administration for what he called the \u201cslaughter of our civil liberties\u201d and the \u201cinstitution of what can\u2019t be called anything but socialism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople paid with our money to stay home and not work \u2026 everything is nonsense,\u201d he added. \u201cEverything is upside down. It\u2019s time to straighten things back up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a press release, McCloskey slammed \u201ccancel culture, the poison of critical race theory, the violent mobs and rising crime, and the spread of socialism.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/07\/13\/gop-lawmakers-barr-letter-st-louis-couple-gun-rights-confiscation\/\">(RELATED: Missouri Republicans Urge Attorney General To Defend McCloskeys)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerica is at a crossroads,\u201d he said. \u201cDo we want to preserve our traditions and our way of life, or do we want the cancel culture mobs to destroy everything we\u2019ve built?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mark McCloskey and his wife Patricia rose to the spotlight after confronting a group of black lives matter protesters who were marching by their home. The couple stood on their front porch and brandished guns at the protesters, who were marching to the home of former St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson. The two were later <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/10\/06\/mark-patrician-mccloskey-st-louis-missouri-black-lives-matter-protest-indicted\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">indicted<\/a> on charges of evidence tampering and unlawful use of a weapon after photos of them with their guns went viral on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump said that it was \u201cdisgraceful\u201d that the couple was facing charges, and the pair later <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/08\/18\/mark-patricia-mccloskey-eric-schmitt-republican-national-convention-rnc-st-louis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spoke<\/a> at the Republican National Convention.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark McCloskey, who received national attention during the Black Lives Matter protests as one member of the \u201cSt. Louis gun couple,\u201d announced Tuesday on Tucker Carlson that he &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1891412,"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":[],"class_list":["post-523396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"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\/523396","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=523396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1891412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}