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Pennsylvania Senate candidate Kathy Barnette discussed some of the top concerns she is hearing from voters in the state in a Friday interview with Fox News Digital.
Barnette — who grew up on a hog farm in Alabama, served in the U.S. Army Reserve for a decade and is now running to become the first Black, female U.S. senator from Pennsylvania — believes she can offer voters what other candidates cannot: “Someone who’s real.”
“I think when people see me, they see someone who’s not a career politician. They see themselves,” Barnette, who is also a homeschooling mother of two, said. “They see someone who will fight for all those things that allowed me, a little Black girl who grew up under a rock, to be able to carve out a life for herself that America is fast closing. So I think they see a fighter, but I think they also see someone who understands what is at stake.”
Kathy Barnette campaigning. (Credit: Kathy Barnette)
What is at stake in America, exactly? A lot of things, according to Barnette — but in particular, “the first five rights in the First Amendment,” including freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly and freedom to petition the government.
“Several of the candidates … throw out the word ‘values,'” Barnette said of her Senate candidate competition in Pennsylvania. “But what values are they talking about? If it’s not resting solidly on the U.S. Constitution and recognizing that we are free people, then how do we maintain that freedom?”
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She continued: “I believe my campaign is the only campaign that actually makes sense right now. When we look at what Democrats did last year, they were able to convince a whole lot of people to vote against their own best interests, right? Because in the previous administration we … were energy independent. We had cheap gas. If you wanted a job, you could get a…
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