Former Rep. Justin Amash considers US Senate bid



Former Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan, who voted to impeach then-President Donald Trump in 2019, announced that he is thinking about jumping into the 2024 Michigan U.S. Senate GOP primary.

"Today I'm launching the Justin Amash for Senate Exploratory Committee as I consider entering the race," Amash tweeted. "We need a principled, consistent constitutional conservative in the Senate—someone with a record of taking on the bipartisan oligarchy, defending sound money and free speech, fighting the surveillance state and military-industrial complex, and protecting all our rights. The stakes are high: freedom, social cooperation, and human progress itself."

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Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan announced last year that she will depart the Senate when her term ends in early 2025.

If Amash throws his hat into the ring, he will join a Republican primary field that already includes figures such as former Rep. Peter Meijer, former Rep. Mike Rogers, and former Detroit Police Chief James Craig.

Amash served as a House lawmaker from early 2011 until early 2021. While he served as a Republican throughout most of his tenure, he dumped the GOP in 2019 and became an independent, and then switched to be a libertarian in 2020.

In 2020, he announced an exploratory committee to pursue the Libertarian Party's presidential nomination, but less than a month later, said he would not run. "I've concluded that circumstances don't lend themselves to my success as a candidate for president this year, and therefore I will not be a candidate," he tweeted.

Amash, who currently describes himself on X as a libertarian, has advocated for ending the Federal Reserve. "Not just no central bank digital currency. No central bank. End the Fed," he tweeted.

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Sen. Tim Scott announces presidential exploratory committee: 'I know America is a land of opportunity, not a land of oppression'



Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina has announced a presidential exploratory committee, a move that indicates he may throw his hat into the ring during the 2024 presidential election cycle.

In a video, Scott, who has served as a senator for just over ten years, condemned radical leftist ideology and offered an optimistic message about the opportunity available in America.

"Joe Biden and the radical left have chosen a culture of grievance over greatness. They're promoting victimhood instead of personal responsibility. And they're indoctrinating our children to believe we live in an evil country. And all too often when they get called out for their failures, they weaponize race to divide us, to hold on to their power," he declared.

"I know America is a land of opportunity, not a land of oppression. I know it because I've lived it," he said. "I bear witness that America can do for anyone what she's done for me."

"I will defend the Judeo-Christian foundation our nation is built on and protect our religious liberty. I will stand up to Communist China and restore opportunities for hard-working Americans to thrive and prosper. I will fight to give every parent a choice in education so their children have a better chance in life. I will defend our borders and our neighborhood streets," he said. "I will protect our most fundamental right — the right to life itself."

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Former President Donald Trump, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, and entrepreneur and author Vivek Ramaswamy have already thrown their hats into the ring, and other Republicans will likely jump into the race in the coming months.

Many GOP lawmakers have already endorsed Trump for president, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has not announced a presidential bid, has been endorsed by Republican Reps. Chip Roy of Texas and Thomas Massie of Kentucky.

The first GOP primary debate will be held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in August, the same city where the party will have its 2024 Republican National Convention.

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