{"id":2516,"date":"2024-11-15T19:02:44","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T19:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/meet-the-new-members-trump-white-house-insider-turned-congressman\/"},"modified":"2024-11-15T19:02:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T19:02:44","slug":"meet-the-new-members-trump-white-house-insider-turned-congressman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/meet-the-new-members-trump-white-house-insider-turned-congressman\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the new members: Trump White House insider turned congressman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><b>The new member: <\/b>Rep.-elect Brian Jack (R-Ga.)<\/p>\n<p><b>How they got here:<\/b> Jack defeated Democratic nominee Maura Keller 66 percent to 34 percent in this deep red district in western Georgia.<\/p>\n<p><b>Inside the campaign: <\/b>Jack, a longtime aide of President-elect Donald Trump, entered the race with the former president\u2019s strong backing and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DBhKyrsyjkU\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\"><u>linked his agenda to Trump\u2019s<\/u><\/a> throughout the contest.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s backing helped Jack emerge from a crowded GOP field and defeat former GOP state Senate leader Mike Dugan in a primary runoff in this ruby red patch of the Peach State.<\/p>\n<p><b>The issues they\u2019ll focus on: <\/b>Jack ran on familiar Trump issues: the southern border, addressing crime in urban centers and strengthening the economy. However, he also made the extension and expansion of the tax package enacted during Trump\u2019s first term a major focus of his campaign.<\/p>\n<p><b>Background:<\/b> The 36-year-old Peachtree City native worked on Trump\u2019s successful 2016 campaign and then served as political director in the White House before later working for then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy.<\/p>\n<p>Jack then took on a senior role in the nascent Trump 2024 presidential campaign. His close proximity to the president-elect gives him uncommon insight and access for a freshman member of Congress, as well as extensive familiarity with the levers of power in Washington.<\/p>\n<p><b>Campaign ad that caught our eye: <\/b>His attempts to link arms tightly with Trump were evident. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wrwZYctpHOI\" target=\"_blank\"><u>ad features the president-elect saying his name repeatedly<\/u><\/a> at one point joking, \u201cYou can do it either way: Jack Brian or Brian Jack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Fun fact: <\/b>Jack is a member of the Georgia Historical Society and major fan of all Georgia sports, and recently celebrated new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C_mOiwEtWG0\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\"><u>minor league baseball team the Columbus Clingstones<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new member: Rep.-elect Brian Jack (R-Ga.) How they got here: Jack defeated Democratic nominee Maura Keller 66 percent to 34 percent in this deep red district in western Georgia. Inside the campaign: Jack, a longtime aide of President-elect Donald Trump, entered the race with the former president\u2019s strong backing and linked his agenda to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}