Who Is Morgan Ortagus?The Trump-backed candidate for Tennessee has a long history of being hawkish on foreign policy.
By Carmel Richardson
February 12, 2022
When Former President Donald Trump endorses a congressional candidate, it’s always interesting to see who cheers. In the case of Morgan Ortagus, former spokeswoman for then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and now candidate for the newly-redrawn Tennessee congressional District 5, congratulations came from Kelly Craft, the once-Bush appointee to the United Nations for U.S. engagement in Africa, and Russia hawk Ryan Tully.
Notably missing: any native Tennesseans, save Quincy McKnight, who recently withdrew his Republican bid for the same race. (McKnight, whose prior political aspirations earned him a third of the vote in the three-way Republican primary for a state senate seat, caught a lot of heat for his Twitter swipe at Don Lemon’s sexuality on January 6.)
Ortagus, who announced her candidacy on February 7, was already getting flack from a handful conservatives in late January after she earned the coveted Trump endorsement. After all, her wedding was officiated by the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and for the 2016 Republican primary she volunteered for none other than Jeb Bush (please clap). Twitter personality Daniel Bostic has dedicated a running thread to Ortagus’s other noteworthy accomplishments.
But for Tennessee conservatives, the issue that is more concerning than choosing the femme fatale of the Supreme Court for her wedding officiant is the question of Ortagus’s loyalties. The native of the Sunshine State and former Miss Florida Citrus moved to Nashville only one year ago. Doubt that the woman who just rolled up from the swamp could understand what kind of policies are best for the Volunteer State, despite professing to “love Tennessee,” is real.
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Source:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/who-is-morgan-ortagus/
