Is Candace Owens running for President in 2024?
CONSERVATIVE pundit Candace Owens has said more than once that she is mulling a White House run.
Owens speculated about her future both before and after Joe Biden succeeded Donald Trump as president in January of 2021.
Is Candace Owens running for president in 2024?
Candance Owens hinted one week after the 2020 election that she would bid to become Trump’s “successor.”
“2024 is a long way off… Maybe I’ll run as his successor,” she tweeted on November 12.
As with many Republicans, Owens refused to admit that Biden won the election even though he was declared the winner just days earlier.
Owens then tweeted on February 6, 2021: “I love America. Thinking about running for President.”
Now 31, Owens would meet the minimum age requirement for a presidential candidate four years from now.
However, she did not make it clear in the tweet whether she was mulling a run in 2024, or in another presidential election.
Owens has received criticism and praise for becoming vocally pro-Trump in recent years.
I love America. Thinking about running for President.
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) February 6, 2021
The author of Blackout launched a “Blexit” movement in 2018 to encourage African Americans (and other minority groups) to leave the Democratic Party and register as Republicans.
What did Owens say about Barack Obama?
Owens accused former President Barack Obama of “hating America” during an appearance on Fox News.
Owens was responding to an excerpt from Obama’s memoir, A Promised Land, where he says his presidency “triggered a deep-seated panic” in the Republican Party – which eventually led to the rise of Trump.
“It was as if my very presence in the White House had triggered a deep-seated panic, a sense that the natural order had been disrupted,” Obama wrote in the memoir, which was released in 2020.
“Which is exactly what Donald Trump understood when he started peddling assertions that I had not been born in the United States and thus an illegitimate president.
“For millions of Americans spooked by a black man in the White House, he promised an elixir for their racial anxiety.”
Owens said that Obama’s claims of racism in the US are “despicable.”
“This is a man who ran on the American dream. Everyone remembers where they were the night Barack Obama won,” she said.
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“There was a kinetic energy on the ground. It felt like we finally had arrived at a place in this country where we could put the past on the past.
“He ran on that image. He didn’t run on race, he didn’t run on denigrating half of Americans.
“He is the first president to have ever sat in the White House and come out of the White House hating America and that is what I believe about Barack Obama today.”