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The Tennessean reports: Morgan Ortagus, Baxter Lee and Robby Starbuck were voted off the primary ballot by the party’s executive committee, Tennessee Republican Chairman Scott Golden confirmed Tuesday Republican officials last week confirmed official challenges had been filed against the three, which triggered a technical removal from the ballot per party bylaws. Ortagus, a former State Department spokesperson who nabbed …

The Tennessean reports: A bill to place residency requirements on Tennessee congressional candidates cleared its final hurdle in the General Assembly on Monday as both chambers agreed to allow the requirements to take effect immediately upon signing. The House and Senate had previously passed competing versions of the bill, which implicitly targeted the candidacy of Morgan Ortagus, a former State …

The Tennessee Star reports: When Donald Trump’s former State Department spokeswoman and Florida native Morgan Ortagus appeared on a Nashville radio show to participate in a quiz for congressional candidates to show their knowledge of Tennessee’s 5th Congressional District, the host asked Ortagus if she was ready. “Yes,” she replied. She wasn’t. After trying and failing to name the three …

The Hill reports: Former State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus is jumping into the race for Tennessee’s 5th congressional district after winning a preemptive endorsement from former President Donald Trump. That endorsement was front and center in a video announcing Ortagus’s campaign on Monday that highlighted her ties to Trump. “Morgan worked with President Trump to not just make America great …

“I like to call them the ‘genocide Olympics.’ Anyway, I’m still on the team that I’m not even sure that we should be competing because there’s an ongoing genocide in Xinjiang. So if we are going to compete and have America athletes there in a country that’s committing a genocide, even more important, Harris, to have the freedom of the …

MSNBC reports: The Trump administration has chosen counter terrorism expert and Fox News contributor Morgan Ortagus to be the new State Department spokeswoman, three people with knowledge of the decision told NBC News. Ortagus, a U.S. Naval Reserve officer, would bring significant experience in national security and foreign policy to the role. She will replace Heather Nauert, a former Fox …