{"id":586141,"date":"2021-07-08T13:05:21","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T17:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=586141"},"modified":"2021-07-08T13:05:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T17:05:23","slug":"former-alabama-congressional-candidate-jessica-taylor-announces-campaign-for-us-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-alabama-congressional-candidate-jessica-taylor-announces-campaign-for-us-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Alabama Congressional Candidate Jessica Taylor Announces Campaign For US Senate"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fformer-alabama-congressional-candidate-jessica-taylor-announces-campaign-for-us-senate%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=586141&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\/07\/JessicaTaylor-e1625761825241.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Former congressional candidate Jessica Taylor has announced her campaign for Alabama\u2019s open senate seat in 2022, becoming the fourth person to launch a bid in the Republican primary.<\/p>\n<p>The self-proclaimed \u201cpatriot\u201d and small business owner announced her candidacy in a two-minute video posted to Twitter Thursday morning, tweeting that she was \u201cfired up\u201d to be launching the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, in Kamala\u2019s America, I fear everything that we hold dear here in Alabama is under attack by socialists, big-tech, and the radical leftists in D.C.,\u201d Taylor says in the video.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"11.520912547529\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I am a mother, patriot, business owner, and job creator, and now I\u2019m FIRED UP to be launching my campaign for U.S. Senate!<\/p>\n<p>????????Join my launch crew! ????????<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0EGjwrg9fx\">https:\/\/t.co\/0EGjwrg9fx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QB2a2GplU7\">pic.twitter.com\/QB2a2GplU7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jessica Taylor (@JessicaTaylorAL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JessicaTaylorAL\/status\/1413125874027728904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As the video progresses, Taylor walks up a large rolling ladder toward the top of a makeshift rocket, placing a newspaper inside of the rocket while criticizing media and calling for conservatives to \u201cstand up\u201d and help \u201cfinish Trump\u2019s mission of draining the swamp.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taylor then lists off the \u201cliberal agenda\u201d consisting of issues such as voter fraud, critical race theory and open borders among other things, while placing Ibram X. Kendi\u2019s book, \u201cHow to be an Antiracist,\u201d $300 dollars, a small block of wood and a cut-out of the Twitter logo inside of the rocket.<\/p>\n<p>She then touts being \u201c100% pro-life, 100% pro-gun, 100% pro-police and 100% pro-wall\u201d and being pro \u201cAmerica-first\u201d as she walks down the ladder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got enough lobbyists, career politicians and RINOs in the swamp, and they\u2019ve been effectively useless,\u201d Taylor says as she walks towards a launch button. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/08\/john-merrill-alabama-senate-bid-affair\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Alabama Secretary Of State Drops Senate Bid After Being Confronted With Affair)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The candidate then presses the button, sending the rocket upward toward the sky, while stating that she would send \u201cthe liberal agenda into outer space, where it belongs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The video ends with what appears to be Taylor\u2019s husband stating that she had left her pistol on top of the ladder, to which she replies that she left it there so \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/07\/poll-majority-americans-others-biden-policy-agenda-white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sleepy Joe<\/a>\u201d can\u2019t get it.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor enters a slowly-growing but very tough primary field, consisting of Republican Alabama Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/22\/mo-brooks-alabama-senate-bid-stephen-miller\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mo Brooks<\/a>, who has been <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/31\/trump-endorsements-2022-congress-governor-senate-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">endorsed by Trump<\/a>, Katie Britt, the CEO of the Business Council of Alabama, and Lynda Blanchard, the former Ambassador to Slovenia.<\/p>\n<p>Incumbent Republican Sen. Richard Shelby, who is 86-years-old, announced in February that <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/08\/richard-shelby-not-running-reelection-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he would not run<\/a> for a seventh term in the senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former congressional candidate Jessica Taylor has announced her campaign for Alabama\u2019s open senate seat in 2022, becoming the fourth person to launch a bid in the Republican primary.The self-proclaimed \u201cpatriot\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2314261,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/JessicaTaylor-e1625761825241.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Former Alabama Congressional Candidate Jessica Taylor Announces Campaign For US Senate","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/JessicaTaylor-e1625761825241.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Former Alabama Congressional Candidate Jessica Taylor Announces Campaign For US Senate","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586141","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=586141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}