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Personal details
Born1980 (age 43–44) [1]
Sweet Home, Oregon, U.S.
Political party Republican
Spouses
  • ​
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    (m. 2014;died 2019)​
  • Heather Kaiser
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    (m. 2023)​
Children2
Residence Yacolt, Washington
Education Norwich University (BS)
Military service
Branch/service United States Army
Rank Chief Warrant Officer [2]

Joe Kent (born 1980) is an American far-right political candidate [3] [4] and former member of the United States Army Special Forces. [3] [4]

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After defeating incumbent Jaime Herrera Beutler in the primary, Kent was the Republican nominee in the 2022 election for Washington's 3rd congressional district, losing in an upset to Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez. [5] During his campaign, Kent favorably cited the work of white supremacist writer Sam Francis [6] and promoted various conspiracy theories, including the claim that the COVID-19 vaccines are "experimental gene therapy". [7]

Kent was the Republican nominee again in the 2024 congressional election for the same seat, [8] and lost to Gluesenkamp Perez in a rematch. [9]

He is the widower of Shannon M. Kent, a United States Navy senior chief petty officer and cryptologic technician who was deployed to Syria and killed in the 2019 Manbij bombing.

Early life and military service

Shannon Kent was the wife of Joe Kent and was killed in the 2019 Manbij bombing. Shannon Kent.jpg
Shannon Kent was the wife of Joe Kent and was killed in the 2019 Manbij bombing.

Kent was born in Sweet Home, Oregon, and raised in Portland. [10]

Kent enlisted in the US Army at age 18 as an infantryman, having applied shortly before the September 11 attacks, and served 11 combat deployments. He served in the 75th Ranger Regiment and the United States Army Special Forces. [11] [12] [13]

In 2018, Kent left the Army and began working for the CIA. [13] He left that job after his wife, Shannon, was killed in the 2019 Manbij bombing. [14]

Political campaigns

2022 congressional campaign

Kent announced the launch of his campaign for Washington's 3rd congressional district on February 18, 2021; he cited incumbent Republican Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler's vote in favor of the second impeachment of Donald Trump as a factor in his decision to run. [15] His candidacy was endorsed by Donald Trump and numerous other prominent figures from the Republican Party's pro-Trump wing, including Michael Flynn and Matt Gaetz. [16] During his campaign, he was a frequent guest on Tucker Carlson Tonight , Steve Bannon's show Bannon's War Room, and various programs on One America News Network and InfoWars. [17] He referenced the work of white supremacist writer Sam Francis multiple times on the campaign trail. [6]

On August 3, 2022, Kent finished second in the nonpartisan primary for the congressional race, advancing to the general election against Democratic candidate Marie Gluesenkamp Perez. Herrera Beutler finished third in the primary; she did not endorse Kent. [18] [19]

In what was widely considered a major upset, Kent lost the election to Perez. He subsequently said he would not concede until "every legal vote is counted". [20] [21] Following a recount, Kent conceded on December 21. [22]

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2022 WA-03 Primary results by county
  Gluesenkamp Perez
  •   20–30%
  •   30–40%
  Kent
  •   30–40%
  Herrera Beutler
  •   20–30%
Blanket primary results [23] [24]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Marie Gluesenkamp Perez 68,190 31.0
Republican Joe Kent 50,097 22.8
Republican Jaime Herrera Beutler (incumbent)49,00122.3
Republican Heidi St. John35,21916.0
Republican Vicki Kraft 7,0333.2
Democratic Davy Ray4,8702.2
Independent Chris Byrd3,8171.7
Republican Leslie French1,1000.5
American Solidarity Oliver Black4560.2
Write-in 1420.1
Total votes219,925 100.0
Results by county Gluesenkamp Perez 50-60% Kent 50-60% 60-70% 2022 WA 03 General.svg
Results by county
  Gluesenkamp Perez
  •   50–60%
  Kent
  •   50–60%
  •   60–70%
2022 Washington's 3rd congressional district election [25] [26]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Marie Gluesenkamp Perez 160,323 50.14
Republican Joe Kent157,69049.31
Write-in 1,7600.55
Total votes319,773 100.0
Democratic gain from Republican

2024 congressional campaign

On January 11, 2023, Kent announced he would be running again for the same House seat in 2024, saying that Gluesenkamp Perez "votes in lockstep [with] the radical left's agenda that's crushing working families" in his announcement. [8] He is one of three candidates who announced that they would challenge Gluesenkamp Perez. [27]

On August 16, 2023, The Washington State Republican Party (WSRP) Central Committee announced the early endorsement of Kent in this election, following an endorsement by the Clark County Republican Party. [28] His political action committee raised $821,000 through the third quarter of 2023, drawing donations from more than three dozen states. [29] Kent lost in a rematch with Gluesenkamp Perez. [30]

Blanket primary results [31]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (incumbent) 97,274 45.9
Republican Joe Kent 83,389 39.3
Republican Leslie Lewallen25,86812.2
Independent John Saulie-Rohman5,4062.5
Write-in 1860.1
Total votes212,123 100.0
2024 Washington's 3rd congressional district election [32]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (incumbent) 215,177 51.7
Republican Joe Kent199,05447.9
Write-in 1,6730.4
Total votes415,904 100.0
Democratic hold

Political views

Kent's political views align with the far-right in the United States. [3] [4] [33] He has been endorsed by the House Freedom Caucus. [34]

Kent made false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump a focus of his 2022 campaign. He labeled the perpetrators of the January 6 United States Capitol attack as "political prisoners" and spoke at a rally in defense of them organized by his top adviser. He supported impeaching Joe Biden and—in the wake of the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago — Merrick Garland. [5]

In a September 2022 debate against Perez, Kent said that he was unvaccinated and claimed that the COVID-19 vaccines are a form of experimental gene therapy. [35] [36]

Kent has said he supports school voucher programs and child tax deductions in addition to prioritizing energy independence. [16] [37]

Kent has labeled his political philosophy as "inclusive populism", with a spokesman stating that it "rejects racism and bigotry" while promoting an "America First agenda". [38] "If you’re a white nationalist or white supremacist, I have no time for you whatsoever" he said in an interview. [3]

He considers himself a non-interventionist, citing his military experience and the death of his wife. He said that he lost many friends and his wife due to "our ruling class - Republicans and Democrats - consistently [having] lied to the American people to keep us engaged in wars abroad". [39]

Contact with far-right groups

Kent's 2022 campaign was endorsed early on by prominent white nationalist commentator Nick Fuentes. Fuentes had partaken in a call with Kent discussing social media strategy; Kent later said that he had no further contact with Fuentes after the call and had not sought Fuentes's endorsement. [40] Kent later spoke with a member of American Virtue, [a] a little-known white nationalist group allied with Fuentes, where he expressed support for a moratorium on all immigration and stated that “the [American] culture is anti-white” and “anti-straight-white-male.” [41] [42]

Graham Jorgensen, a member of the neo-fascist organization Proud Boys, was employed as a consultant for Kent's 2022 campaign. Joey Gibson, founder of the far-right group Patriot Prayer, has also been linked to Kent; Gibson heavily promoted Kent's campaign on social media and spoke at a fundraiser for Kent, in which Kent praised Gibson for "defend[ing] this community when our community was under assault from antifa". [43]

In June 2022, Kent was interviewed by Greyson Arnold, a neo-Nazi YouTube streamer. [44] Kent also posed for a photograph with Arnold that Arnold then shared on social media. [38] A spokesman for Kent's campaign said that Kent was unaware of who Arnold was and assumed he was a local journalist. [45]

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