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</div><div><b>MAGA extremists are freaking out over Trump’s endorsement in Alabama Senate race</b></div><div>
</div><div>[Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama speaking at the 2021 Southern Regional Conference, hosted by Turning Point USA at the Sheraton Panama City Beach Golf & Spa Resort in Panama City Beach, Florida, Gage Skidmore</div><div>Alex Henderson June 13, 2022</div><div>&nbsp; &nbsp;</div><div><b>On Friday, June 10, former President Donald Trump endorsed Katie Britt over Rep. Mo Brooks in Alabama’s GOP U.S. Senate primary — exalting her as a “fearless America First warrior</b>.”<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Trump was once an ally of Brooks; now, he is slamming the Alabama congressman as “woke.” But some MAGA Republicans disagree strongly with Trump’s endorsement of Britt, including former Trump spokesperson Katrina Pierson and&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Fox News host Mark Levin.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>On Trump’s social media platform Truth Social, Levin angrily wrote, “This is a gut punch. Very disappointing. Britt is a McConnell-supported RINO praised by the head of the Alabama Democrat Party.</b>&nbsp;I hope Mo can pull it off. Lord knows, we need his conservative voice and vote in the Senate.”</div><div>
</div><div>On Twitter, Pierson linked to a March 8 article in Breitbart that accuses Britt of surrounding herself with Never Trump conservatives. Pierson wrote, “This Katie Britt?”</div><div>
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</div><div>Britt has been the frontrunner in the primary, which has gone to a runoff. Candidate Mike Durant was in third place in the initial primary election, but Britt and Brooks were close enough in the vote count for them to go to a runoff that will be held on June 21.</div><div>
</div><div><b>In his endorsement of Britt, Trump argued, “The opposition says Katie is close to Mitch McConnell, but actually, she is not — in fact, she believes that McConnell put Mike Durant in the race to stop her, which is&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">very possibly</span>&nbsp;true.”</b></div><div>
</div><div>Writer Ryan Girdusky is another MAGA Republican who is angry that Trump endorsed Britt. On June 10, Girdusky tweeted, “Oh fuck off. Mo is the one.”</div><div>[grfx]</div><div>
</div><div>The Daily Beast’s Zachary Petrizzo, in an article published on June 12, observes, “The endorsement of Britt comes at a critical time for both campaigns. The primary runoff is in less than two weeks after neither candidate could secure 50% of the vote in the primary race. In April 2021, Trump endorsed Brooks, only to revoke the endorsement after Brooks urged Trump supporters to move on from claims that the 2020 election was ‘stolen.’”</div><div>
</div><div><b>Brooks is pointing out how much flip-flopping Trump has done in Alabama’s Republican U.S. Senate primary.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Petrizzo quotes Brooks as saying, “This is weird: last time Donald Trump talked about Katie Britt, he said she was unqualified for the Senate. Donald Trump is the only man in American politics who could get conned by Mitch McConnell twice in an Alabama Senate race.”</span></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div style=""><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"I was the person that came up with the Jan. 6 idea with Congressman Gosar, Congressman Mo Brooks, and then Congressman Andy Biggs,” GOP operative Ali Alexander said in a Dec. 28, 2020, Periscope video. “We four schemed up of putting maximum pressure on Congress while they were voting, so that who we couldn’t lobby, we could change the hearts and the minds of Republicans who were in that body, hearing our loud roar from outside.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The video, which was captured by investigative reporter Jason Paladino before it was deleted, highlights the role played by Alexander, his so-called “Stop the Steal” campaign, and far-right members of Congress in the failed insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.&nbsp;</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack launches its first public hearings June 9, and Alexander and “Stop the Steal” are likely to figure prominently in its findings. Alexander sat for eight hours of testimony in front of the committee on Dec. 9, and in April, a lawyer for Alexander said he would cooperate with the Department of Justice’s Jan. 6 investigation—a claim on which Alexander promptly threw cold water.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Right Wing Watch extensively covered Ali Alexander and the so-called Stop the Steal movement ahead of Jan. 6. Here’s what you need to know.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Who is Ali Alexander? What is “Stop the Steal”?</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On Nov. 4, 2020, as mail-in ballots began to be counted and shifted the election in favor of Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump falsely declared that the ongoing efforts to count millions of outstanding ballots were an indication of fraud and that he had in fact won.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Hours later, Alexander publicly launched “Stop the Steal,” a campaign to get right-wing activists to discredit mail-in voting, disrupt vote-counting, and ​falsely accuse Democrats of stealing the presidential election. The campaign held its first rally outside Arizona’s state capitol building in Phoenix that evening, featuring Rep. Paul Gosar, who with a bullhorn in hand, addressed the crowd before introducing “Pizzagate” booster Mike Cernovich, who threatened imaginary anti-fascist activists.&nbsp;</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">And so began months of “Stop the Steal” rallies featuring far-right members of Congress, QAnon and election conspiracy theorists, Christian nationalists, and far-right anti-government groups, all under the MAGA banner.&nbsp;</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ali Alexander and Roger Stone (Image Source: Twitter)]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Alexander, née Ali Akbar, has long worked in Republican politics, coming up under the tutelage of “dirty trickster” Roger Stone. He has connections to deep pockets, too: ​a PAC advised by<b>&nbsp;Alexander received a $60,000 donation in 2016 from pro-Trump billionaire Robert Mercer​.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">These Republican connections have persisted despite his habit of noting when members of the media he criticizes are Jewish and despite associating with far-right figures like Unite the Right white supremacist attendee Matt Colligan and members of the neo-fascist Proud Boys.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Alexander’s “Stop the Steal” campaign wasn’t the first to go by that name. Longtime GOP operative and Trump confidant Roger Stone first popularized the phrase “Stop the Steal” during the 2016 presidential election</b>.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;In 2018, Alexander,&nbsp; Stone, and far-right commentator Jack Posobiec launched a “Stop the Steal” campaign during a ballot recount for Florida’s Senate race between Republican Rick Scott and Democrat Bill Nelson. Pro-Trump activists from around the country descended on Florida to protest and spread misinformation, insisting that Democrats were trying to “steal” the election from Scott. It served as a dry run for the 2020 presidential election. Sure enough, in September 2020, Posobiec and Alexander discussed rebooting the campaign.&nbsp;</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">What was their role in the lead up to Jan. 6?</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Alexander served as the lead organizer for “Stop the Steal.”&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The campaign targeted Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Georgia—battleground states won by Joe Biden and whose cities are home to predominantly Black and brown voters</span>—holding rallies and spreading election disinformation on social media.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He called on figures he knew from his time as a member of the highly secretive<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><b>&nbsp;Council for National Policy</b>&nbsp;a</span>nd through his years in Republican politics to join the effort, including activists<b>&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Amy and Kylie Kremer, Jack Posobiec, Brandon Straka, Scott Presler, Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch, Ed Martin of Phyllis Schlafly Eagles, and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk</span>.</b>&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">He brought into the fold Trump’s short-lived national security adviser Michael Flynn and Trump team attorneys Sidney Powell and Lin Wood—who have since been disciplined for bringing false lawsuits alleging election fraud.</span>&nbsp;Most joined the so-called “Stop the Steal” movement in a public capacity; others promoted the same messaging through their own organizations and organized behind the scenes.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ali Alexander and other “Stop the Steal” activists at Dec. 15, 2020 press conference (Image from NTD livestream posted on&nbsp;<b>Epoch Times YouTube channel.)]</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Alexander welcomed extremists into the campaign’s ranks. Male supremacist Mike Cernovich, white nationalist Nick Fuentes, and far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones were among the first to answer Alexander’s call. Alongside white nationalist Patrick Casey, Vincent James, and Baked Alaska, Fuentes galvanized crowds of white men to attend “Stop the Steal” rallies across the county, while Jones spread disinformation through his Infowars network, raised funds for the Jan. 6 rally, and brought a caravan of supporters to rallies</span>.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On Nov. 14, “Stop the Steal” came to the nation’s capital. Thousands of Trump loyalists, conspiracy theorists, and members of far-right groups took to the streets. Marjorie Taylor Green, Lauren Boebert, and Madison Cawthorn—all recently elected to Congress—addressed the crowd alongside organizers. Radical conspiracy theorist Alex&nbsp;<b>Jones</b>&nbsp;yelled unintelligibly into a bullhorn. Members of the Proud Boys hate group roamed the streets looking for fights and found them late in the evening.<b>&nbsp;Fuentes’ America First group, ​a youth-focused white-nationalist outfit, commanded the crowd’s attention with chants of “America First.”</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A second Dec. 12 rally was deeply steeped in Christian nationalist and violent rhetoric<b>. Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes called on Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act and declare martial law, threatening a “much more bloody war”&nbsp;</b>should he fail to do so.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>While rallies brought the whole of the MAGA movement together, Alexander held regular Periscopes to spread disinformation and provide action items to Trump supporters.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Alexander called on “Stop the Steal” activists to lobby the state legislatures of battleground states won by Joe Biden to ignore the election results and<b>&nbsp;send Republican electors to the electoral college&nbsp;</b>to give Trump enough electoral votes.<b>&nbsp;He called on state Republican legislators to declare the election fraudulent and threatened them with a primary challenger should they not</b></span><b>.&nbsp;</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">By mid-December, right-wing activists and lawyers were focused on Jan. 6, the day Congress would certify the electoral votes. More than 100 House members and a dozen Senators committed to voting against certifying the election. Trump and the apparatus around him began to pressure Vice President Mike Pence to use his ceremonial duty to block or delay Biden’s certification. “Stop the Steal” fed into that pressure, with “Stop the Steal” friend Lin Wood going as far as to call for the vice president’s execution.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>On Dec. 19, Trump declared it “[s]tatistically impossible to have lost the 2020 Election.” [~ his own # guy 1/6 hearing] He encouraged his followers to come to D.C.: “Big protest in DC on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!”&nbsp;</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Alexander had already planned a&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Jan. 6 D.C. protest, but he began fighting his one-time fellow activists Kylie and Amy Kremer for control&nbsp;</span>of the big Jan. 6 rally.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Kremers had used the “Stop the Steal” banner for their cross country bus tour and a competing December rally, much to Alexander’s chagrin. ProPublica reported that&nbsp;</span><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Katrina Pierson, whom the White House put in charge of the rally planning, “helped arrange a deal where those organizers deemed too extreme to speak at the Ellipse could do so on the night of Jan. 5.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">” That meant Alexander and his cohort were relegated to speaking on the evening of Jan. 5, while the Kremers took the lead on the Jan. 6 event held at the Ellipse</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">.</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Alexander held that Jan. 5 rally and planned his own separate “wild” Jan. 6 protest on the east side of the Capitol&nbsp;</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">building to follow the main “Save America” rally.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Alexander spent weeks in the lead up to the Capitol insurrection calling for “rebellion,” starting chants of “victory or death,” and using rhetoric of the American Revolution and spiritual warfare to call for action should Congress certify the election of President Joe Biden</b>.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;He engaged in violent rhetoric, appearing to even advocate for physical attacks against members of Congress who he said stole the election.&nbsp;</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Jan. 5 rally served as the penultimate event of those calls. Speakers delivered&nbsp;<b>Christian nationalist messages and veiled threats of violence&nbsp;</b>if Congress failed to reject Biden electors. Bikers for Trump founder Chris Cox told rally-goers that the United States was on the brink of a revolution and that he would “take the first bullet.” Right Wing Watch reported at the time:&nbsp;</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Standing in front of a sign declaring “MARTIAL LAW NOW,” so-called Stop the Steal organizer Ali Alexander led the crowd in chants of “Victory or death!” Alexander told activists, “Our government is only our government if it is legitimate” and declared, “<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">1776 is always an option</span>.” [new boogaloo? less racist?] He said Stop the Steal activists were starting&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">“a rebellion against the Deep State.”</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">What was Ali Alexander and the campaign’s role on Jan. 6?</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>On the day of the insurrection, Alexander took to Twitter early in the morning to declare it the “First official day of the rebellion.” Alexander was supposed to hold his “wild” protest by the Capitol, but it would never materialize.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Trump loyalists packed into the Ellipse, eager to stop what they saw as a fraudulent election. Speaking from the stage and wearing a bulletproof vest, Rep. Mo Brooks, whom Alexander had recently called a friend, told attendees that Jan. 6 is “the day American patriots start taking down names and kicking ass. … Are you willing to do what it takes to fight for America? Louder! Will you fight for America?”&nbsp;</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>“If you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore,” Trump told the crowd. He urged activists to march to the Capitol to make their voices heard. They did as they were told</b>.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Leaving the rally at the Ellipse after Trump’s speech, where he was a VIP guest with far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Alexander followed Jones through the Capitol grounds, past barricades, and up the Capitol steps. At that point—around 2 p.m.—the Capitol had already been breached</span>.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>
</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>“Democrats and Media ended the Republic and the people responded. Welcome to ‘duhhh’,” he tweeted an hour later.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Alexander emerged on&nbsp;<b>One America News Network’s terrace</b>&nbsp;overlooking the Capitol to record a video, posted on the “Stop the Steal” Twitter account by his associate Michael Coudrey at 4:26 p.m.—well after the violence had begun.&nbsp;</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“I don’t disavow this. I do not denounce this,” Alexander said, gesturing to the scene behind him. Trump loyalists were descending on the Capitol and up the Capitol steps. “This is completely peaceful, looks like, so far. And there are a couple of agitators that I obviously don’t endorse,” he claimed despite having seen what took place on the steps not long before. By the end of the video, Alexander was back to encouraging rebellion. “StoptheSteal.us is going to be the home of the rebellion against an illegitimate government.”</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>
</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Right Wing Watch captured the video, which was later deleted.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Where is Ali Alexander now?&nbsp;</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Ali Alexander went into hiding following the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.&nbsp;</b>In February, he briefly reappeared and said he had been plotting to restart rallies in March,<b>&nbsp;abolish the media, and build a separate society for Trump supporters.&nbsp;He declared that “civil war” was the only outcome available to those who opposed Biden’s presidency.</b></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>But Alexander was kicked off Twitter and most mainstream social media platforms. He lost access to his Venmo, Cashapp, and Paypal. He turned to alternative social media platforms and<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;briefly became a Bitcoin influencer.&nbsp;</span></b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In&nbsp;<b>October 2021, the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack issued three subpoenas to Alexander,</b>&nbsp;the Stop the Steal organization, and Nathan Martin, who worked with Alexander and reserved the Jan. 6 rally space. Alexander accused the government of “gaslighting” and blamed the violence on “agitators dressed in militant outfits.” Jan. 6, he said, was a government “psyop.</span>”&nbsp;</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>
</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>In December 2021, Alexander testified for eight hours in a closed-door hearing</b>&nbsp;and<b>&nbsp;asked the House select committee to suspend reality</b>. In a draft of his opening statement, which was leaked to the New York Times, he denied wrongdoing and passed the buck, placing blame for the violence on Katrina Pierson, Kylie Kremer, and Amy Kremer.&nbsp;</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>In a lawsuit seeking to prevent the select committee from obtaining his phone records, Alexander confirmed to congressional investigators that ahead of Jan. 6, he had communicated with several GOP congressmen—Reps. Paul Gosar, Mo Brooks, and Andy Biggs—as well as with Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Trump Jr.’s girlfriend and member of Trump’s inner circle.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In April, a lawyer for Alexander&nbsp;<b>said he would cooperate with the Department of Justice’s Jan. 6 investigation. The following day, Alexander joined Alex Jones’ show to suggest he wouldn’t cooperate.&nbsp;</b>He went on to call the effort to investigate and prosecute those responsible for the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol a&nbsp;<b>conspiracy to “stop Trump from running in 2024” and “usher in a New World Order.”</b></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>A few days later, Alexander joined Alex Jones’ show again. He mused that “there is a time for legitimate violence when there is legitimate tyranny.”</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jan. 6 rally organizers used anonymous 'burner phones' to communicate with top Trump officials: report</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Alex Henderson November 24, 2021</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp; &nbsp;</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Using a burner phone is much different from using a high-end Apple iPhone or an Android-based smartphone: they're cheap, disposable, designed for temporary use rather than long-term use, and do not require an account. Burner phones also offer anonymity. And according to Rolling Stone's Hunter Walker, they were allegedly used by some Republican activists who helped organize former President Donald Trump's "Save America" rally in Washington, D.C. on January 6.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Walker, in an article published by Rolling Stone on November 23, explains, "Some of the organizers who planned the rally that took place on the White House Ellipse on January 6 allegedly used difficult-to-trace burner phones for their most 'high level' communications with former President Trump's team. K<b>ylie Kremer, a top official in the 'March for Trump' group that helped plan the Ellipse rally, directed an aide to pick up three burner phones days before January 6, according to three sources who were involved in the event. One of the sources, a member of the 'March for Trump' team, says Kremer insisted the phones be purchased using cash and described this as being 'of the utmost importance.'"</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">
</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">Walker writes that according to those three Rolling Stone sources, Kremer "took one of the phones and used it to communicate with top White House and Trump campaign officials" such as the Trump Organization's Eric Trump (a younger brother of Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump, Jr.), former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">long-time Donald Trump ally Katrina Pierson. </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">One of the Trump supporters given a burner phone was Amy Kremer, Kylie Kremer's mother and another rally organizer.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Walker reports, "According to the three sources, some of the most crucial planning conversations between top rally organizers and Trump's inner circle took place on those burner phones…. Burner phones — cheap, prepaid cells designed for temporary usage — do not require users to have an account. This makes them hard to trace and ideal for those who are seeking anonymity — particularly if they are purchased with cash. The use of burner phones could make it more difficult for congressional investigators to find evidence of coordination between Trump's team and rally planners."</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">January 6, 2021 was an incredibly dark day in U.S. history. That day, a violent mob of Donald Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol Building in the hope of stopping Congress from certifying now-President Joe Biden's Electoral College victory. The Capitol riot was preceded by the large "Save America" or "Stop the Steal" rally in Washington, D.C. that Kylie and Amy Kremer helped organize.&nbsp;<b>During the March For Trump bus tour, the Kremers promoted the Big Lie: the false, totally debunked claim that Trump was the real winner of the 2020 presidential election but was victimized by widespread voter fraud.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>"There was no evidence the Kremers and the other rally organizers encouraged or planned violence in the group text messages reviewed by Rolling Stone</b>," Walker explains. "However, critics have argued Trump and the leaders who encouraged thousands of his supporters to come to Washington as the vote was certified deserve some blame for the violence because of their pre-January 6 rhetoric and the fiery content of the former president's speech at the Ellipse rally."</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Walker continues, "The three sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity due to the ongoing investigation into the January 6 Capitol attack, say Kylie asked the aide to buy the three 'burner phones' as the group passed through Palm Springs, California about a week before the Ellipse event. Based on the group's website, which has since been deleted, the tour began on December 27, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada before moving on to California."</div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style=""><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">a slate of Republican members of Congress is being outed by those who attended planning meetings for the protest that resulted in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/exclusive-jan-6-organizers-met-congress-white-house-1245289/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">according to a new report in Rolling Stone.</a>
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Two sources, according to their story,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rawstory.com/paul-gosar-linked-capitol/" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">revealed that Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ)</a>, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL), Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC), Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), and Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) were all present on "dozens" of calls with organizers of the group.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Trump aide&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rawstory.com/katrina-pierson-linked-jan6/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Katrina Pierson was also named</a>&nbsp;by them a "liaison" between the White House and the rally organizers.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rawstory.com/mark-meadows-involved-jan-6-organizing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows was cited</a>&nbsp;as someone who also aided the group.</b></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"I remember Marjorie Taylor Greene specifically," the organizer told Rolling Stone. "I remember talking to probably close to a dozen other members at one point or another or their staffs."</font></div><div id="story_page_incontent_p2_target" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-5155643920455169" data-ad-slot="6339868799" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; text-align: center; margin-bottom: 20px; display: block;" /></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The former president also spoke to the group, saying that they were going to march to the U.S. Capitol and tell the members of Congress that they needed to hand Trump the election. He promised that he would lead them and walk with them, but that never happened.
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"These two sources also helped plan a series of demonstrations that took place in multiple states around the country in the weeks between the election and the storming of the Capitol," said Rolling Stone. "According to these sources, multiple people associated with the March for Trump and Stop the Steal events that took place during this period communicated with members of Congress throughout this process."</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We would talk to Boebert's team, Cawthorn's team,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rawstory.com/paul-gosar-linked-capitol/" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Gosar's team</a>&nbsp;like back to back to back to back," the organizer recalled.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While there have been reports of officials being part of the planning, this is the first report from those involved on the inside, willing to go on the record with investigators and the press.
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Nick Dyer, who is Greene's communications director, said she was solely involved in planning to object to the electoral certification on the House floor," said the report. "Spokespeople for the other members of Congress, who the sources describe as involved in the planning for protests, did not respond to requests for comment."</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Congresswoman Greene and her staff were focused on the Congressional election objection on the House floor and had nothing to do with planning of any protest," Dyer said in an email.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"She objected just like Democrats who have objected to Republican presidential victories over the years," Dyer wrote, which is incorrect. No Democrats have ever attempted to stop certification of election results. Greene's office named a list of Democrats, falsely saying that they attempted to do exactly that when it came to President Donald Trump in 2017.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dyer went on to say that no one in the U.S. cares about Jan. 6.</font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ali Alexander, the original organizer of the event is now in hiding, but he's already said in a since-deleted video that Gosar, Brooks, and Biggs all aided his efforts for the event</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"I was the person who&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rawstory.com/paul-gosar-linked-capitol/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">came up with the Jan. 6 idea with Congressman Gosar</a>, Congressman Mo Brooks, and Congressman Andy Biggs," Alexander said in the video. "We four schemed up on putting maximum pressure on Congress while they were voting so that — who we couldn't lobby — we could change the hearts and the minds of Republicans who were in that body hearing our loud roar from outside."</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When he organized an event in Phoenix, Gosar was the main speaker. Alexander even referred to him as "my captain" and called him "one of the other heroes has been Congressman Andy Biggs."</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"He just couldn't help himself but go on his live [feed] and just talk about everything that he did and who he talked to," one of the planners told Rolling Stone about Alexander. "So, he, like, really told on himself."</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The breaking point for me [on Jan. 6 was when] Trump starts talking about walking to the Capitol," said the organizer. "I was like. 'Let's get the fck out of here.'"</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.rawstory.com/katrina-pierson-linked-jan6/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">"I do kind of feel abandoned by Trump,</a>" the planner added. "I'm actually pretty pissed about it, and I'm pissed at him. What the fck?"</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"I have no problem openly testifying," the planner also said.</font></p><p><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/exclusive-jan-6-organizers-met-congress-white-house-1245289/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Read the full report at Rolling Stone.</font></a></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">josh went to 2 ivy l schools and taught at uk one est 1400's?&nbsp; nb i thnink gop has no problem with self-contra args:</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...Campaigns can succeed best when they have a simple message to convey about their opponents, but Trump had no defined attack on Harris ready to go. Some Trump-friendly reporters even offered him suggested lines of attack — her supposed hypocrisy on marijuana, for instance — but he largely batted them away.</font></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yet the real trouble is arising for Trump defenders when attacking Harris on her past as a prosecutor. Harris has rightly come under scrutiny from the left, as many argue that she participated in far too many of the worst aspects of the criminal justice system during her time as a prosecutor and attorney general in California. She defended the death penalty in court, for example, even while saying she personally opposed it. And she fought to keep a man in prison even as evidence was emerging of his innocence. (At other times, though, she did try to push law enforcement in a more progressive direction.)</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Katrina Pierson, </b>a senior adviser to the Trump campaign, tried to capitalize on the criticisms of her record in a statement.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Clearly, Phony Kamala will abandon her own morals, as well as try to bury her record as a prosecutor, in order to appease the anti-police extremists controlling the Democrat Party,” she said. “In her failed attempt at running for president, Kamala Harris gleefully embraced the left’s radical manifesto, calling for trillions of dollars in new taxes and backing Bernie Sanders’ government takeover of health care.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Even in this single statement, though, there were two ideas at play. Does Harris have a dark past as a prosecutor to hide? Or is she a tool of the anti-police left? These ideas are clearly in tension, and it’s not clear if we’re supposed to be afraid that she’ll lock everybody up or fire all the cops.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s White House counselor — and, therefore, someone who legally should not be engaging in campaigning for the president — tried to square these conflicting messages in remarks to reporters Wednesday morning.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“She called herself a criminal reformer, and she also called herself a top cop,” Conway said, claiming that Harris “left nobody happy when it came to law and order.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">They’re trying to have it both ways, attacking Harris both from the left and the right on law and order. While this may work for people already inclined to support the president, it’s hard to see how it wins anyone over who’s not already disposed to distrust Harris. These mixed attacks could end up portraying Harris as someone who’s been a moderate on criminal justice with a mixed record, which may not be scary to people at all and may, in fact, sound reasonable.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More broadly, Trump allies are finding it hard to strike a consistent note. Per The Guardian,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/12/donald-trump-and-his-campaign-launch-scattergun-attacks-on-kamala-harris" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Sen. Marsha Blackburn</a>&nbsp;(R-TN) told reporters:</font></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 10px 20px 10px 24px; position: relative; line-height: 1.7; overflow: hidden; background: rgb(245, 245, 245); border: none !important;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This has completed the leftist takeover of the party and of their radical agenda. Kamala Harris will be the most liberal leftist nominee for VP that our country has ever seen. If you want to find proof of where she has moved left, you can start with looking at her support for Bernie Sanders’ health care takeover.</font></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But Republican Sen. 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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Trump campaign unveils snowflake-destroyer-machine for holiday gatherings — and invites a deluge of mockery</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Written by Eoin Higgins / Common Dreams December 24, 2019</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">President Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign on Tuesday launched a new website to help supporters win arguments with family members over the holidays, providing tips and talking points to help to right-wingers facing off against “liberal relatives” encountered at potentially hostile family gatherings in the coming days.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Trump supporters can go to SnowflakeVictory.com and see such luminaries of the right-wing as</span><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Katrina Pierson </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and Lara Trump&nbsp;</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">set to soaring background music. Topics covered include impeachment, the economy, and Joe Biden.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For example, the site offers a blistering takedown of “Big Government Socialism” in this video:</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Reaction to the site, which went live late Tuesday morning, was wildly enthusiastic from Trump supporters while progressives ridiculed the effort.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“We know that at Christmas and holiday time, there’s always that liberal snowflake relative who starts an argument and then runs and hides,” tweeted Brad Parscale, Trump’s campaign manager. “This year, don’t let them get away with it.” [IS IT WOLFF WHO SEZ TURKEY NOT APPORTIONED BY HIGHEST BIDDER?]</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Democratic strategist Mo Elleithee had a different take.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Nothing says Merry Christmas like hurling insults at relatives,” said Elleithee.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gustav</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">@Honlstuenkel</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This seems like something made by a high schooler for a class project, yet it is a real website created by professionals employed by the most powerful person in our country https://snowflakevictory.com/&nbsp;</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">How to Win an Argument with Your Liberal Relatives</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">snowflakevictory.com</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">30</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">9:23 AM - Dec 24, 2019</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Twitter Ads info and privacy</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">25 people are talking about this</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Micah Rasmussen, director of Rider University’s Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics, tweeted his disapproval.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Ruining Christmas one family at a time,” said Rasmussen.</div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><p class="StoryBodyparagraph--2-Doz" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.75;"><font style="" size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p class="StoryBodyparagraph--2-Doz" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.75;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson</font></a></p><p class="StoryBodyparagraph--2-Doz" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">former dem</font></p><p class="StoryBodyparagraph--2-Doz" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">K<b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">atrina Lanette Pierson</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(née</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Shaddix</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">;</span><sup id="cite_ref-Jeffers(2014-02-17)1-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-Jeffers(2014-02-17)-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">born</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">July 20, 1976</span><sup id="cite_ref-Birthday_note_2-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-Birthday_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[a]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">) is an </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">American&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_movement" title="Tea Party movement" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Tea Party</a>&nbsp;activist and communications consultant. She was the national spokesperson for the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_presidential_campaign,2016" class="mw-redirect" title="Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign</a>, and was a regular&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN" title="CNN" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">CNN</a>&nbsp;contributor during the campaign.</span></font></p><div id="mw-content-text" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr;" lang="en"><div class="mw-parser-output" style=""><div id="toc" class="toc" style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1;"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="direction: ltr; position: absolute; opacity: 0; z-index: -1; display: none;" /><div class="toctitle" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;" lang="en"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#Early_life" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Early life</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#Career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Career</span></font></a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#Early_work" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Early work</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#Early_political_work" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Early political work</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#2014_Texas_Congressional_race" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2014 Texas Congressional race</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#Trump_2016" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Trump 2016</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#Post_2016_election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Post 2016 election</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#Personal_life" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Personal life</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#Notes" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Notes</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">External links</span></font></a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_life">Early life</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font style="" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Pierson was </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">born in Kansas<sup id="cite_ref-Meghan_3-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-Meghan-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[2]</a></sup>&nbsp;to a white mother and a black father.<sup id="cite_ref-Swerdlick_4-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-Swerdlick-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[3]</a></sup>&nbsp;Her mother gave birth to her at 15&nbsp;<sup id="cite_ref-Jeffers(2014-02-17)1-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-Jeffers(2014-02-17)-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[1]</a></sup>&nbsp;and initially gave her up for adoption, but changed her mind.&nbsp;<sup id="cite_ref-Swerdlick_4-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-Swerdlick-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[3]</a></sup>She grew up with her mother, in poverty</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-Swerdlick_4-2" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-Swerdlick-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pierson grew up in poverty with her single mother. In 1997, at 20, Pierson was arrested for shoplifting, to which she pleaded&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_contest" class="mw-redirect" title="No contest" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">no contest</a>, received&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_adjudication" title="Deferred adjudication" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">deferred adjudication</a>, and, ultimately, a dismissal with the case sealed.<sup id="cite_ref-Jeffers(2014-02-17)1-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-Jeffers(2014-02-17)-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup>&nbsp;She reportedly took $168 in merchandise from a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.C.Penney" title="J. C. Penney" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">J. C. Penney</a>&nbsp;store in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plano,Texas" title="Plano, Texas" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Plano, Texas</a>. She had her 3-month-old son with her at the time.&nbsp;<sup id="cite_ref-Jeffers(2014-02-17)1-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-Jeffers(2014-02-17)-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup>&nbsp;Pierson told authorities she needed the clothes for job interviews. She has said that the incident helped her turn her life around, showing her that mistakes often come with consequences.<sup id="cite_ref-Jeffers(2014-02-17)1-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-Jeffers(2014-02-17)-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pierson received an associate of science degree from&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilgore_College" title="Kilgore College" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Kilgore College</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Georgatos(2011)5-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-Georgatos(2011)-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup>&nbsp;In 2006, she earned a Bachelor's in biology from the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_at_Dallas" title="University of Texas at Dallas" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">University of Texas at Dallas</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Schreckinger_6-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-Schreckinger-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Tea_7-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-Tea-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Career">Career</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Katrina_Pierson&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><h3 style="background: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_work">Early work</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Katrina_Pierson&action=edit&section=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Early work" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pierson worked for&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InVentiv_Health" class="mw-redirect" title="InVentiv Health" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">InVentiv Health</a>&nbsp;in 2008; the Baylor Health Care System from July 2009 to August 2011, as a practice administrator;<sup id="cite_ref-Weigel(2014)8-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-Weigel(2014)-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup>&nbsp;for&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASG_Software_Solutions" class="mw-redirect" title="ASG Software Solutions" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">ASG Software Solutions</a>, as the director of corporate affairs, from May 2011 to December 2012;<sup id="cite_ref-LaCapria(2016)9-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-LaCapria(2016)-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup>&nbsp;and then in a variety of jobs until being hired by the Trump campaign.<sup id="cite_ref-LaCapria(2016)9-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-LaCapria(2016)-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Hooks(2014)10-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-Hooks(2014)-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_political_work">Early political work</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font style="" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Pierson voted for&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Barack Obama</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;in the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_US_presidential_election" class="mw-redirect" title="2008 US presidential election" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">2008 presidential election</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,</span><sup id="cite_ref-Schreckinger_6-1" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-Schreckinger-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Nat_review_11-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-Nat_review-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;and has listed&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X" title="Malcolm X" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Malcolm X</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;as her political idol, stating that&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Martin Luther King, Jr." style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Martin Luther King, Jr.</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;was "too moderate".</span><sup id="cite_ref-CallerHasson_12-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-CallerHasson-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">However, Pierson began shifting rightward because Obama did not wear an American flag on his lapel</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-Schreckinger_6-2" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-Schreckinger-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;She became an activist in the Tea Party movement in 2009.</span><sup id="cite_ref-Tinsley_13-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-Tinsley-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Speaking in April 2009 at a Dallas Tea Party event, she called for Texas to secede from the U.S.</span><sup id="cite_ref-Kennedy(2015)14-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-Kennedy(2015)-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;She founded a local Tea Party group in&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garland,Texas" title="Garland, Texas" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Garland, Texas</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-Tea_7-1" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-Tea-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Tinsley_13-1" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-Tinsley-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;In 2012, <b>Pierson actively supported&nbsp;</b></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz" title="Ted Cruz" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><b>Ted Cruz</b></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;in the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_Texas,2012" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Senate election in Texas, 2012" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">2012 Senate race in Texas</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;and appeared on stage with him on election night in November.</span><sup id="cite_ref-Schreckinger_6-3" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-Schreckinger-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="2014_Texas_Congressional_race">2014 Texas Congressional race</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Katrina_Pierson&action=edit&section=5&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 2014 Texas Congressional race" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font style="" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Texas,2014" class="mw-redirect" title="United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, 2014" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">2014 Texas congressional elections</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, Pierson challenged incumbent congressman&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Sessions" title="Pete Sessions" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Pete Sessions</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;in the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Texas,2014#District_32" class="mw-redirect" title="United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, 2014" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Republican primary</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;to represent Texas' 32nd district.</span><sup id="cite_ref-Swartsell_15-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-Swartsell-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Gillman_16-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-Gillman-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Her candidacy was endorsed by&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Cruz" title="Rafael Cruz" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Rafael Cruz</a><sup id="cite_ref-Jeffers(2014-01-06)17-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-Jeffers(2014-01-06)-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[16]</a></sup>and by&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin" title="Sarah Palin" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Sarah Palin</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, who called her "a feisty fighter for freedom."</span><sup id="cite_ref-Swartsell_15-1" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-Swartsell-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;While U.S. senator&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz" title="Ted Cruz" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Ted Cruz</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;offered praise, calling her an "utterly fearless principled conservative," he stopped short of an endorsement.</span><sup id="cite_ref-Gillman_16-1" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-Gillman-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In January 2014, Pierson broadcast a campaign ad in which she quipped "President Obama says ‘I wouldn’t let my son play pro football.’<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup>&nbsp;That’s weird. I wouldn’t let&nbsp;<i>my</i>&nbsp;son add $7 trillion to the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_of_the_United_States#Measuring_debt_burden" title="National debt of the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">national debt</a>." The&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Journal_Review" title="Independent Journal Review" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Independent Journal Review</a></i>&nbsp;dubbed it "one of the sassiest ads ever."<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By mid-February 2014, Pierson had received only $76,000 in campaign contributions; Sessions had received almost twenty times more.<sup id="cite_ref-Weigel(2014)8-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-Weigel(2014)-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup>&nbsp;In the March primary, Pierson received 36 percent of the vote, losing to Sessions, who received 63 percent.<sup id="cite_ref-Kamisar_20-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-Kamisar-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a></sup>&nbsp;Pierson went on to become spokesperson for the Tea Party leadership fund.<sup id="cite_ref-Schreckinger_6-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-Schreckinger-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span title="The time period mentioned near this tag is ambiguous. (January 2016)">when?</span></a></i>]</sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Trump_2016">Trump 2016</span></font></h3><table class="box-Expand_section plainlinks metadata ambox mbox-small-left ambox-content" role="presentation" style="background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251); margin: 4px 1em 4px 0px; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 10px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(162, 169, 177) rgb(162, 169, 177) rgb(162, 169, 177) rgb(242, 133, 0); border-image: initial; box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; width: 238px; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 1.25em;"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image" style="border: none; padding: 2px 0px 2px 0.5em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg" class="image" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><img alt="[icon]" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/20px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png" decoding="async" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/30px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/40px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="44" data-file-height="31" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="20" height="14" /></font></a></td><td class="mbox-text" style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0.5em; width: 187.688px;"><div class="mbox-text-span"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This section&nbsp;<b>needs expansion</b>.&nbsp;<small style="">You can help by&nbsp;<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Katrina_Pierson&action=edit&section=" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none !important; padding: 0px !important;">adding to it</a>.</small>&nbsp;<small class="date-container" style=""><i>(<span class="date">March 2017</span>)</i></small></font></div></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In January 2015, Pierson attended a meeting for Tea Party activists in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrtle_Beach,South_Carolina" title="Myrtle Beach, South Carolina" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Myrtle Beach</a>&nbsp;with Ted Cruz.<sup id="cite_ref-Schreckinger_6-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-Schreckinger-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup>&nbsp;While in Myrtle Beach, she also met with&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Donald Trump</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Schreckinger_6-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-Schreckinger-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup>&nbsp;After meeting with Trump or his aides a few more times, Pierson introduced Trump at a campaign rally held in Dallas in September. In November 2015 she was hired as the national spokesperson for Trump's campaign,<sup id="cite_ref-Schreckinger_6-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-Schreckinger-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup>&nbsp;subsequently appearing frequently on television in that capacity, often being seen as one of Trump's staunchest defenders amidst controversial comments.<sup id="cite_ref-Benen_21-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-Benen-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Nat_review_11-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-Nat_review-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font style="" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Her </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">controversial comments included falsely claiming that Barack Obama was responsible for the invasion of Afghanistan, that homosexuality was "an aberration,” and that Muslims should be banned from entry to the U.S. based on their religion.</span></font></p><h3 style="background: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Post_2016_election">Post 2016 election</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Katrina_Pierson&action=edit&section=7&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Post 2016 election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font style="" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">After the 2016 election, Pierson turned down an administration position as Deputy Press Secretary,<sup id="cite_ref-Savransky_22-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-Savransky-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[21]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Resnick_23-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-Resnick-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[22]</a></sup>&nbsp;and instead worked at&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Policies" title="America First Policies" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">America First Policies</a>, a pro-Trump&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501(c)(4)" class="mw-redirect" title="501(c)(4)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">501(c)(4)</a>&nbsp;group.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[23]</a></sup>&nbsp;In March 2018, the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_presidential_campaign,2020" class="mw-redirect" title="Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2020" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Trump 2020</a>&nbsp;campaign hired Pierson as a senior adviser</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-Manchester_25-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-Manchester-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Gillman_16-2" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-Gillman-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Personal_life">Personal life</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Katrina_Pierson&action=edit&section=8&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Personal life" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pierson had a three-month-long marriage<sup id="cite_ref-Jeffers(2014-02-17)1-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-Jeffers(2014-02-17)-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup>&nbsp;at a young age, during which she gave birth to a son.<sup id="cite_ref-Schreckinger_6-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-Schreckinger-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup>&nbsp;She and her son reside in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garland,Texas" title="Garland, Texas" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Garland, Texas</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Tea_7-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-Tea-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Notes">Notes</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Katrina_Pierson&action=edit&section=9&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Notes" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><div class="reflist" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.5em; list-style-type: lower-alpha;"><div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references" style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: inherit;"><li id="cite_note-Birthday_note-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-Birthday_note_2-0" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span>&nbsp;}<span class="reference-text">Pierson's birthday is July 20.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a></sup>&nbsp;She was 39 years old on November 18, 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-Schreckinger_6-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_note-Schreckinger-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup>&nbsp;Her full birthday, July 20, 1976, is calculated from these two facts.</span></font></li></ol></div></div><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Katrina_Pierson&action=edit&section=10&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: References" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-Jeffers(2014-02-17)1-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-Jeffers(2014-02-17)1-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-Jeffers(2014-02-17)1-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-Jeffers(2014-02-17)1-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-Jeffers(2014-02-17)1-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Jeffers Jr., Gromer (February 17, 2014).&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/headlines/20140214-sessions-rival-katrina-pierson-says-1997-shoplifting-charge-helped-turn-life-around.ece" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Pete Sessions Rival Katrina Pierson Says '97 Shoplifting Charge Helped Turn Her Life Around"</a>. Politics.&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dallas_Morning_News" title="The Dallas Morning News" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Dallas Morning News</a></i>.&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.is/20160819190250/http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/headlines/20140214-sessions-rival-katrina-pierson-says-1997-shoplifting-charge-helped-turn-life-around.ece" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Archived</a>&nbsp;from the original on August 19, 2016<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved&nbsp;<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">January 24,</span>&nbsp;2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Dallas+Morning+News&rft.atitle=Pete+Sessions+Rival+Katrina+Pierson+Says+%2797+Shoplifting+Charge+Helped+Turn+Her+Life+Around&rft.date=2014-02-17&rft.aulast=Jeffers+Jr.&rft.aufirst=Gromer&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dallasnews.com%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2Fheadlines%2F20140214-sessions-rival-katrina-pierson-says-1997-shoplifting-charge-helped-turn-life-around.ece&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKatrina+Pierson" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-Meghan-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-Meghan_3-0" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span>&nbsp;}<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Meghan (February 12, 2014).&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.glennbeck.com/2014/02/12/glenn-talks-to-congressional-candidate-katrina-pierson-about-taking-on-the-establishment-gop/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Katrina Pierson about Taking on the Establishment GOP"</a>.&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GlennBeck.com" class="mw-redirect" title="GlennBeck.com" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">GlennBeck.com</a></i>.&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140214092523/http://www.glennbeck.com/2014/02/12/glenn-talks-to-congressional-candidate-katrina-pierson-about-taking-on-the-establishment-gop/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Archived</a>&nbsp;from the original on February 14, 2014<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved&nbsp;<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">March 18,</span>&nbsp;2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=GlennBeck.com&rft.atitle=Katrina+Pierson+about+Taking+on+the+Establishment+GOP&rft.date=2014-02-12&rft.au=Meghan&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.glennbeck.com%2F2014%2F02%2F12%2Fglenn-talks-to-congressional-candidate-katrina-pierson-about-taking-on-the-establishment-gop%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKatrina+Pierson" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-Swerdlick-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;">^&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-Swerdlick_4-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-Swerdlick_4-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-Swerdlick_4-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Swerdlick" title="David Swerdlick" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Swerdlick, David</a>&nbsp;(February 25, 2014).&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.theroot.com/articles/politics/2014/02/katrina_pierson_challenges_gop_incumbent_pete_sessions.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Black Tea Partier Katrina Pierson Takes on Obama—and Her Own Party"</a>.&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Root(magazine)" title="The Root (magazine)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Root</a></i>.&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160121174055/http://www.theroot.com/articles/politics/2014/02/katrina_pierson_challenges_gop_incumbent_pete_sessions.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Archived</a>&nbsp;from the original on January 21, 2016<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved&nbsp;<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">January 29,</span>&nbsp;2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Root&rft.atitle=Black+Tea+Partier+Katrina+Pierson+Takes+on+Obama%E2%80%94and+Her+Own+Party&rft.date=2014-02-25&rft.au=Swerdlick%2C+David&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theroot.com%2Farticles%2Fpolitics%2F2014%2F02%2Fkatrina_pierson_challenges_gop_incumbent_pete_sessions.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKatrina+Pierson" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-Georgatos(2011)-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-Georgatos(2011)5-0" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span>&nbsp;}<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Georgatos, Debbie (September 22, 2011).&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.texasgopvote.com/de-bunking-tea-party-myths-interview-katrina-pierson-003325" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"De-Bunking Tea Party Myths: An Interview with Katrina Pierson"</a>.&nbsp;<i>TexasGOPVote</i>.&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.is/20160819183949/http://www.texasgopvote.com/de-bunking-tea-party-myths-interview-katrina-pierson-003325" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Archived</a>&nbsp;from the original on August 19, 2016<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved&nbsp;<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">August 16,</span>2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=TexasGOPVote&rft.atitle=De-Bunking+Tea+Party+Myths%3A+An+Interview+with+Katrina+Pierson&rft.date=2011-09-22&rft.aulast=Georgatos&rft.aufirst=Debbie&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.texasgopvote.com%2Fde-bunking-tea-party-myths-interview-katrina-pierson-003325&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKatrina+Pierson" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-Schreckinger-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;">^&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-Schreckinger_6-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-Schreckinger_6-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-Schreckinger_6-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-Schreckinger_6-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-Schreckinger_6-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-Schreckinger_6-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-Schreckinger_6-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-Schreckinger_6-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-Schreckinger_6-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-Schreckinger_6-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>j</b></i></sup></a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Schreckinger, Ben; Glueck, Katie (November 18, 2015).&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/donald-trump-katrina-pierson-216005" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Trump's New Face"</a>.&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico" title="Politico" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Politico</a></i>.&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151122003941/http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/donald-trump-katrina-pierson-216005" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Archived</a>&nbsp;from the original on November 22, 2015<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved&nbsp;<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">January 29,</span>&nbsp;2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Politico&rft.atitle=Trump%27s+New+Face&rft.date=2015-11-18&rft.aulast=Schreckinger&rft.aufirst=Ben&rft.au=Glueck%2C+Katie&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politico.com%2Fstory%2F2015%2F11%2Fdonald-trump-katrina-pierson-216005&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKatrina+Pierson" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-Tea-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;">^&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-Tea_7-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-Tea_7-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-Tea_7-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.teapartyexpress.org/7799/katrina-pearson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Katrina Pearson [sic]"</a>.&nbsp;<i>TeapartyExpress.com</i>.&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151231223533/http://www.teapartyexpress.org/7799/katrina-pearson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Archived</a>from the original on December 31, 2015<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved&nbsp;<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">January 7,</span>&nbsp;2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=TeapartyExpress.com&rft.atitle=Katrina+Pearson+%5Bsic%5D&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.teapartyexpress.org%2F7799%2Fkatrina-pearson&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKatrina+Pierson" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-Weigel(2014)-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;">^&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-Weigel(2014)8-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-Weigel(2014)8-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation magazine" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Weigel" title="David Weigel" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Weigel, David</a>&nbsp;(February 21, 2014).&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/02/the_tea_party_is_weak_in_texas_katrina_pierson_is_the_best_the_grassroots.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Weak Tea"</a>.&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slate(magazine)" title="Slate (magazine)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Slate</a></i>.&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.is/20140223163227/http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/02/the_tea_party_is_weak_in_texas_katrina_pierson_is_the_best_the_grassroots.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Archived</a>&nbsp;from the original on February 23, 2014<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved&nbsp;<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">August 16,</span>&nbsp;2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Slate&rft.atitle=Weak+Tea&rft.date=2014-02-21&rft.aulast=Weigel&rft.aufirst=David&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.slate.com%2Farticles%2Fnews_and_politics%2Fpolitics%2F2014%2F02%2Fthe_tea_party_is_weak_in_texas_katrina_pierson_is_the_best_the_grassroots.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKatrina+Pierson" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-LaCapria(2016)-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;">^&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-LaCapria(2016)9-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-LaCapria(2016)9-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">LaCapria, Kim (August 15, 2016).&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.snopes.com/katrina-pierson-shoplifting-unemployment/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Her Arcane Katrina"</a>.&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snopes.com" class="mw-redirect" title="Snopes.com" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Snopes.com</a></i>.&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.is/20160819184349/http://www.snopes.com/katrina-pierson-shoplifting-unemployment/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Archived</a>&nbsp;from the original on August 19, 2016<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved&nbsp;<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">August 16,</span>&nbsp;2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Snopes.com&rft.atitle=Her+Arcane+Katrina&rft.date=2016-08-15&rft.aulast=LaCapria&rft.aufirst=Kim&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.snopes.com%2Fkatrina-pierson-shoplifting-unemployment%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKatrina+Pierson" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-Hooks(2014)-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-Hooks(2014)10-0" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span>&nbsp;}<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation magazine" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Hooks, Christopher (February 24, 2014).&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.texasobserver.org/katrina-pierson-bubble-bursts/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"The Katrina Pierson Bubble Bursts"</a>.&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Texas_Observer" title="The Texas Observer" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Texas Observer</a></i>.&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.is/20140225213227/http://www.texasobserver.org/katrina-pierson-bubble-bursts/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Archived</a>&nbsp;from the original on February 25, 2014<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved&nbsp;<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">August 16,</span>&nbsp;2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Texas+Observer&rft.atitle=The+Katrina+Pierson+Bubble+Bursts&rft.date=2014-02-24&rft.aulast=Hooks&rft.aufirst=Christopher&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.texasobserver.org%2Fkatrina-pierson-bubble-bursts%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKatrina+Pierson" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-Nat_review-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;">^&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-Nat_review_11-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-Nat_review_11-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Tuttle, Ian.&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430397/katrina-pierson-donald-trumps-controversial-spokeswoman" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"The Many Strange Inconsistencies and Occasional Outright Lies of Donald Trump's Spokeswoman"</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved&nbsp;<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">August 27,</span>&nbsp;2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+Many+Strange+Inconsistencies+and+Occasional+Outright+Lies+of+Donald+Trump%27s+Spokeswoman&rft.aulast=Tuttle&rft.aufirst=Ian&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalreview.com%2Farticle%2F430397%2Fkatrina-pierson-donald-trumps-controversial-spokeswoman&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKatrina+Pierson" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-CallerHasson-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-CallerHasson_12-0" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span>&nbsp;}<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Hasson, Peter (January 22, 2016).&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/01/22/trump-spox-malcolm-x-is-my-idol-republicans-are-racist/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Trump Spokeswoman: Malcolm X Is 'My Idol,' Republicans Are Racist"</a>.&nbsp;<i>The Daily Caller</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Daily+Caller&rft.atitle=Trump+Spokeswoman%3A+Malcolm+X+Is+%E2%80%98My+Idol%2C%E2%80%99+Republicans+Are+Racist&rft.date=2016-01-22&rft.aulast=Hasson&rft.aufirst=Peter&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fdailycaller.com%2F2016%2F01%2F22%2Ftrump-spox-malcolm-x-is-my-idol-republicans-are-racist%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKatrina+Pierson" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-Tinsley-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;">^&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-Tinsley_13-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-Tinsley_13-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Tinsley, Anna M. (December 14, 2015).&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article49653400.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Trump's Outspoken Texas Spokeswoman Likely Will Be Around for Awhile"</a>.&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McClatchy_DC" class="mw-redirect" title="McClatchy DC" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">McClatchy DC</a></i>.&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160312011447/http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article49653400.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Archived</a>&nbsp;from the original on March 12, 2016<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved&nbsp;<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">March 11,</span>&nbsp;2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=McClatchy+DC&rft.atitle=Trump%27s+Outspoken+Texas+Spokeswoman+Likely+Will+Be+Around+for+Awhile&rft.date=2015-12-14&rft.aulast=Tinsley&rft.aufirst=Anna+M.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mcclatchydc.com%2Fnews%2Fpolitics-government%2Felection%2Farticle49653400.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKatrina+Pierson" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-Kennedy(2015)-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-Kennedy(2015)14-0" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span>&nbsp;}<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Kennedy, Bob (November 12, 2015).&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.star-telegram.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/bud-kennedy/article44592237.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Question: Why Jump from Cruz to Trump?"</a>. Opinion.&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Worth_Star-Telegram" title="Fort Worth Star-Telegram" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Fort Worth Star-Telegram</a></i>.&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.is/20160819185618/http://www.star-telegram.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/bud-kennedy/article44592237.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Archived</a>&nbsp;from the original on August 19, 2016<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved&nbsp;<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">August 16,</span>&nbsp;2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Fort+Worth+Star-Telegram&rft.atitle=Question%3A+Why+Jump+from+Cruz+to+Trump%3F&rft.date=2015-11-12&rft.aulast=Kennedy&rft.aufirst=Bob&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.star-telegram.com%2Fopinion%2Fopn-columns-blogs%2Fbud-kennedy%2Farticle44592237.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKatrina+Pierson" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-Swartsell-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;">^&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-Swartsell_15-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-Swartsell_15-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Swartsell, Nick (February 19, 2014).&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2014/02/sarah-palin-supports-katrina-pierson-jabs-at-pete-sessions.html/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Sarah Palin Supports Katrina Pierson, Jabs at Pete Sessions"</a>. Trail Blazers Blog.&nbsp;<i>Dallas Morning News</i>.&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140221065612/http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2014/02/sarah-palin-supports-katrina-pierson-jabs-at-pete-sessions.html/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Archived</a>&nbsp;from the original on February 21, 2014<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved&nbsp;<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">March 27,</span>&nbsp;2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Dallas+Morning+News&rft.atitle=Sarah+Palin+Supports+Katrina+Pierson%2C+Jabs+at+Pete+Sessions&rft.date=2014-02-19&rft.aulast=Swartsell&rft.aufirst=Nick&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Ftrailblazersblog.dallasnews.com%2F2014%2F02%2Fsarah-palin-supports-katrina-pierson-jabs-at-pete-sessions.html%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKatrina+Pierson" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-Gillman-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;">^&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-Gillman_16-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-Gillman_16-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-Gillman_16-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Gillman, Todd J. (January 13, 2014).&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2014/01/ted-cruz-adds-katrina-pierson-to-his-expanding-list-of-the-utterly-fearless.html/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Ted Cruz Adds Katrina Pierson to His Expanding List of the "Utterly Fearless<span class="cs1-kern-right" style="padding-right: 0.2em;">"</span>"</a>. Trail Blazers Blog.&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dallas_Morning_News" title="The Dallas Morning News" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Dallas Morning News</a></i>.&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140115144744/http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2014/01/ted-cruz-adds-katrina-pierson-to-his-expanding-list-of-the-utterly-fearless.html/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Archived</a>&nbsp;from the original on January 15, 2014<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved&nbsp;<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">March 27,</span>&nbsp;2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Dallas+Morning+News&rft.atitle=Ted+Cruz+Adds+Katrina+Pierson+to+His+Expanding+List+of+the+%22Utterly+Fearless%22&rft.date=2014-01-13&rft.aulast=Gillman&rft.aufirst=Todd+J.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Ftrailblazersblog.dallasnews.com%2F2014%2F01%2Fted-cruz-adds-katrina-pierson-to-his-expanding-list-of-the-utterly-fearless.html%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKatrina+Pierson" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-Jeffers(2014-01-06)-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-Jeffers(2014-01-06)17-0" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span>&nbsp;}<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Jeffers Jr., Gromer (January 6, 2014).&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2014/01/ted-cruzs-dad-rafael-cruz-backs-katrina-pierson-for-senate-over-incumbent-pete-sessions.html/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Ted Cruz's Dad, Rafael Cruz, Backs Katrina Pierson for Congress Over Incumbent Pete Sessions"</a>. Trail Blazers Blog.&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dallas_Morning_News" title="The Dallas Morning News" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Dallas Morning News</a></i>.&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.is/20160325184918/http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2014/01/ted-cruzs-dad-rafael-cruz-backs-katrina-pierson-for-senate-over-incumbent-pete-sessions.html/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Archived</a>&nbsp;from the original on March 25, 2016<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved&nbsp;<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">August 16,</span>&nbsp;2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Dallas+Morning+News&rft.atitle=Ted+Cruz%27s+Dad%2C+Rafael+Cruz%2C+Backs+Katrina+Pierson+for+Congress+Over+Incumbent+Pete+Sessions&rft.date=2014-01-06&rft.aulast=Jeffers+Jr.&rft.aufirst=Gromer&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Ftrailblazersblog.dallasnews.com%2F2014%2F01%2Fted-cruzs-dad-rafael-cruz-backs-katrina-pierson-for-senate-over-incumbent-pete-sessions.html%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKatrina+Pierson" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-18" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-18" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span>&nbsp;}<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/president-obama-i-wouldnt-let-my-son-play-pro-football/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"President Obama: I wouldn't let my son play pro football"</a>. 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Retrieved&nbsp;<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">February 11,</span>&nbsp;2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=President+Obama%3A+I+wouldn%27t+let+my+son+play+pro+football&rft.date=2014-01-19&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbssports.com%2Fnfl%2Fnews%2Fpresident-obama-i-wouldnt-let-my-son-play-pro-football%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKatrina+Pierson" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-19" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-19" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span>&nbsp;}<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Becker, Kyle.&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ijr.com/2014/01/109798-texas-candidate-drops-one-sassiest-ads-ever-obamas-7-trillion-debt-glorious/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Texas Candidate Drops One of the Sassiest Ads Ever on Obama's $7 Trillion in Debt And It is Glorious"</a>.&nbsp;<i>Independent Journal Review</i>. 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Retrieved&nbsp;<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">February 11,</span>2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Independent+Journal+Review&rft.atitle=Texas+Candidate+Drops+One+of+the+Sassiest+Ads+Ever+on+Obama%27s+%247+Trillion+in+Debt+And+It+is+Glorious&rft.aulast=Becker&rft.aufirst=Kyle&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fijr.com%2F2014%2F01%2F109798-texas-candidate-drops-one-sassiest-ads-ever-obamas-7-trillion-debt-glorious%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKatrina+Pierson" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-Kamisar-20" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-Kamisar_20-0" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span>&nbsp;}<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Kamisar, Ben (November 9, 2015).&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/259597-trump-taps-ex-cruz-supporter-as-spokeswoman" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Trump Taps Ex-Cruz Supporter as Spokeswoman"</a>.&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hill(newspaper)" title="The Hill (newspaper)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Hill</a></i>.&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151217120058/http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/259597-trump-taps-ex-cruz-supporter-as-spokeswoman" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Archived</a>&nbsp;from the original on December 17, 2015<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved&nbsp;<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">January 25,</span>&nbsp;2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Hill&rft.atitle=Trump+Taps+Ex-Cruz+Supporter+as+Spokeswoman&rft.date=2015-11-09&rft.aulast=Kamisar&rft.aufirst=Ben&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fblogs%2Fballot-box%2F259597-trump-taps-ex-cruz-supporter-as-spokeswoman&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKatrina+Pierson" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-Benen-21" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-Benen_21-0" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span>&nbsp;}<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Benen" title="Steve Benen" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Benen, Steve</a>&nbsp;(December 21, 2015).&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/team-trumps-unhealthy-approach-nuclear-weapons" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Team Trump's Unhealthy Approach to Nuclear Weapons"</a>.&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rachel_Maddow_Show" title="The Rachel Maddow Show" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Rachel Maddow Show</a></i>.&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151231201711/http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/team-trumps-unhealthy-approach-nuclear-weapons" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Archived</a>&nbsp;from the original on December 31, 2015<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved&nbsp;<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">January 29,</span>&nbsp;2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Rachel+Maddow+Show&rft.atitle=Team+Trump%27s+Unhealthy+Approach+to+Nuclear+Weapons&rft.date=2015-12-21&rft.aulast=Benen&rft.aufirst=Steve&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.msnbc.com%2Frachel-maddow-show%2Fteam-trumps-unhealthy-approach-nuclear-weapons&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKatrina+Pierson" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-Savransky-22" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-Savransky_22-0" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span>&nbsp;}<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Savransky, Rebecca (March 14, 2017).&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/323843-report-katrina-pierson-turned-down-top-white-house-job" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Report: Katrina Pierson turned down top White House job"</a>.&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hill(newspaper)" title="The Hill (newspaper)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Hill</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved&nbsp;<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">March 14,</span>2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Hill&rft.atitle=Report%3A+Katrina+Pierson+turned+down+top+White+House+job&rft.date=2017-03-14&rft.aulast=Savransky&rft.aufirst=Rebecca&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fhomenews%2Fadministration%2F323843-report-katrina-pierson-turned-down-top-white-house-job&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKatrina+Pierson" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-Resnick-23" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-Resnick_23-0" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span>&nbsp;}<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Resnick, Gideon (March 14, 2017).&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/hurricane-katrina-pierson-turned-down-white-house-gig" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"<span class="cs1-kern-left" style="padding-left: 0.2em;">'</span>Hurricane Katrina' Pierson Turned Down White House Gig"</a>.&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Beast" title="The Daily Beast" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Daily Beast</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved&nbsp;<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">March 14,</span>&nbsp;2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Daily+Beast&rft.atitle=%E2%80%98Hurricane+Katrina%E2%80%99+Pierson+Turned+Down+White+House+Gig&rft.date=2017-03-14&rft.aulast=Resnick&rft.aufirst=Gideon&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedailybeast.com%2Fhurricane-katrina-pierson-turned-down-white-house-gig&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKatrina+Pierson" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-24" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-24" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span>&nbsp;}<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Bykowicz, Julie (January 30, 2017).&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2017-01-30/trump-advisers-start-america-first-policies-nonprofit" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Trump advisers start 'America First Policies' nonprofit"</a>.&nbsp;<i>Usnews.com</i>. Associated Press<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved&nbsp;<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">March 14,</span>&nbsp;2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Usnews.com&rft.atitle=Trump+advisers+start+%27America+First+Policies%27+nonprofit&rft.date=2017-01-30&rft.aulast=Bykowicz&rft.aufirst=Julie&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usnews.com%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2Farticles%2F2017-01-30%2Ftrump-advisers-start-america-first-policies-nonprofit&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKatrina+Pierson" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-Manchester-25" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-Manchester_25-0" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span>&nbsp;}<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Manchester, Julia (March 13, 2018).&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/378085-trump-campaign-hires-katrina-pierson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Trump campaign hires Katrina Pierson"</a>.&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hill_(newspaper)" title="The Hill (newspaper)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Hill</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved&nbsp;<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">March 14,</span>&nbsp;2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Hill&rft.atitle=Trump+campaign+hires+Katrina+Pierson&rft.date=2018-03-13&rft.aulast=Manchester&rft.aufirst=Julia&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fhomenews%2Fcampaign%2F378085-trump-campaign-hires-katrina-pierson&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKatrina+Pierson" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-26" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Pierson#cite_ref-26" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span>&nbsp;}<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Pierson, Katrina.&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://twitter.com/KatrinaPierson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Katrina Pierson"</a>.&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Twitter</a></i>. 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</font></p><p class="StoryBodyparagraph--2-Doz" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Donald Trump Jr joined an army of dubious social media trolls to target Kamala Harris with a racist smear</font></p><p class="StoryBodyparagraph--2-Doz" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Fox News</font></p><p class="StoryBodyparagraph--2-Doz" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">written by Travis Gettys / Raw Story<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>June 28, 2019</font></p><p class="StoryBodyparagraph--2-Doz" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">President Donald Trump sarcastically asked Vladimir Putin not to meddle in the 2020 election — hours after his son helped amplify an attack on Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) that was pushed by suspicious bot accounts.</font></p><p class="StoryBodyparagraph--2-Doz" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p class="StoryBodyparagraph--2-Doz" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shortly after Harris dealt former Vice President Joe Biden a devastating blow by questioning his commitment to racial justice, Donald Trump Jr. retweeted a post questioning the California Democrat’s own racial credentials.The president’s son later deleted his post, but not after an army of sketchy-looking Twitter accounts began pushing the same theme just minutes later.</font></p><p class="StoryBodyparagraph--2-Doz" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A lot of suspect accounts are pushing the “Kamala Harris is not Black” narrative tonight. It’s everywhere and it has all the signs of being a coordinated/artificial operation. #DemDebate2 pic.twitter.com/DTeB2qWJnm</font></p><p class="StoryBodyparagraph--2-Doz" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) June 28, 2019</font></p><p class="StoryBodyparagraph--2-Doz" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>That message was further amplified by Katrina Pierson, the president’s former campaign spokeswoman.</b></font></p><p class="StoryBodyparagraph--2-Doz" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kamala Harris is going to get a stern talking to after the debate. Can’t play the race card without going all the way…Obama did choose Biden &none one yelled foul! Obama is actually African American – Kamala Harris is not. Who is best to speak for the AA Community? #DemDebate2</font></p><p class="StoryBodyparagraph--2-Doz" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.75;" /><p class="StoryBodyparagraph--2-Doz" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">— Katrina Pierson (@KatrinaPierson) June 28, 2019</font></p><p class="StoryBodyparagraph--2-Doz" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b></b></font></p><p class="StoryBodyparagraph--2-Doz" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>America First, the primary pro-Trump outside organization, raised $30 million in 2017,</b>&nbsp;according to a source familiar with the group’s finances and an FEC report shown to Axios before it is filed tonight.&nbsp;</font></p><p class="StoryBodyparagraph--2-Doz" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">Why it matters:</span>&nbsp;$30 million is an impressive total, ahead of the $26 million Organizing for Action, the pro-Obama group, raised in its first year. America First's goal for 2018 is far more ambitious: $100 million.</font></p></div><div id="hidden-449ae7d0-deb8-431f-8912-bc4677761abf" class="" aria-hidden="false" aria-expanded="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; padding-bottom: 65px;"><p class="StoryBodyparagraph--2-Doz" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“America First got off to a strong start in 2017, and we are grateful for those supporters who believe in our mission and the team we have assembled. We are working hard every single day to help the president make America great again,” Tommy Hicks Jr. the chairman of America First Action, said in a statement.</font></p><p class="StoryBodyparagraph--2-Doz" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The breakdown:</font></p><p class="StoryBodyparagraph--2-Doz" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p class="StoryBodyparagraph--2-Doz" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">America First Policies, a 501(c)(4), raised $26 million and spent $14 million of that total, primarily on ads.</font></p><p class="StoryBodyparagraph--2-Doz" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></p><p class="StoryBodyparagraph--2-Doz" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">America First Action, a Super PAC, raised just shy of $4 million of which it spent about $2 million.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><ul style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><li class="StoryBodyitem--1cHYD" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.75; margin-bottom: 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">Trump campaign holdovers</span>&nbsp;from America First Action include Corey Lewandowski,<b> Katrina Pierson </b>and&nbsp;Brad Parscale,&nbsp;while David Clarke, the controversial former Milwaukee County Sheriff, serves as a spokesman.</font></font></font></li><li class="StoryBodyitem--1cHYD" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.75; margin-bottom: 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">The group's biggest spend</span>&nbsp;of 2017 came during the Alabama special election, on which it spent more than $1 million. That race was ultimately won by Democrat Doug Jones.</font></font></font></li><li class="StoryBody__item--1cHYD" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.75; margin-bottom: 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">Brian Walsh, President of America First Action, said</span>: "This is just the beginning for America First. We expect to be more aggressive in 2018 to ensure that those candidates who embrace President Trump’s agenda have the outside support they need to be successful as we work to grow our majorities in the House and Senate."</font></font></font></li></ul><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></font></div></div>