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Joe Kent is an American political candidate and former officer of the United States Army Special Forces. After defeating incumbent Jaime Herrera Beutler in the primary, he was the Republican nominee in the 2022 election for Washington’s 3rd congressional district.
Born: 1980 (age 44 years), Sweet Home, OR
Education: Norwich University
Party: Republican Party
Candidate for: Lost the race for 2024 Washington Member of the US House elections
Previous campaign: US House Elections in Washington, 2022
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46% of 649 likely November 3rd District voters surveyed in mid-June 2024 by Public Policy Polling said they’d vote for Kent, an ultra MAGA Republican endorsed by Donald Trump, while 45% said Gluesenkamp Perez, the Democratic incumbent. 9% were not sure.
First-term Democratic United States Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez and her Republican rival Joe Kent are running about even with each other as the state’s Top Two winnowing election approaches, a new Northwest Progressive Institute survey of Washington State’s 3rd Congressional District has found.
Asked who they’d back for Congress if the general election were being held now, 46% of 649 likely November 3rd District voters surveyed earlier this month by Public Policy Polling said they’d vote for Kent, while 45% said Gluesenkamp Perez.
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Overview
Joe Kent is a retired 20-year-veteran of our nation’s Special Forces and a widower raising his two young sons in Yacolt, Washington State. His first wife, who also served, was killed while fighting ISIS in Syria. Four years later, he married Heather Kaiser.
Following his military service and work as an field operative in the CIA, Joe served as a foreign policy advisor to President Trump and as a project manager for technology company before retiring on his military pension in January of 2023 to devote himself fully to the campaign.
Joe’s candidacy for US Congress is focused on restoring common sense Republican values and defeating the woke extremist Democrat Congresswoman Marie Perez.
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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.[13] 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.[14] 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.[15]
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.[16][17]
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”.[18][19] Following a recount, Kent conceded on December 21.
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Political views
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Kent’s political views align with the far-right in the United States.[2][3]
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 supports impeaching Joe Biden and—in the wake of the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago—Merrick Garland.[4]
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.[25][26]
Kent has said he supports school voucher programs and child tax deductions in addition to prioritizing energy independence.[14][27]
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”.[28] “If you’re a white nationalist or white supremacist, I have no time for you whatsoever” he said in an interview.[2]
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”.[
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Joseph Clay Kent (born April 11, 1980) is an American politician, former United States Army officer, and former Central Intelligence Agency paramilitary officer. He was the Republican candidate in the United States House of Representatives election for Washington’s third congressional district in 2022 and in 2024.
Kent enlisted in the 75th Ranger Regiment and applied for the Special Forces before the September 11 attacks. He served eleven combat tours, primarily in Iraq, and retired in 2018, becoming a paramilitary officer with the Central Intelligence Agency. In January 2019, Kent’s wife, Shannon, was killed in a suicide bombing in Manbij. He became involved in political advocacy after Shannon’s death.
In February 2021, Kent announced his campaign for the United States House of Representatives election for Washington’s third congressional district. He established himself as a candidate supportive of Donald Trump. Kent won the Republican primary, though he lost to Democratic candidate Marie Gluesenkamp Perez. Kent ran again in 2024, though he was defeated by Gluesenkamp Perez.
In February 2025, Trump named Kent as his nominee for director of the National Counterterrorism Center. That month, he began serving as the chief of staff to Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence.
Early life and education (1980–1998)
Joseph Clay Kent[1] was born on April 11, 1980,[2] in a cabin in Sweet Home, Oregon.[3] Kent was the first child of Roman Catholic parents who later graduated from law school. He was raised in Portland, Oregon.[3] Kent expressed an early interest in the military, constructing weapons out of Lego bricks.[4] He was inspired to join the United States Army after watching television coverage of the Battle of Mogadishu.[5]
Career
Military and intelligence service (1998–2019)

At 17, Kent enlisted in the Army[5] on an 11X Option 40 contract, allowing him to enter the 75th Ranger Regiment.[3] He applied for the Special Forces before the September 11 attacks[5] and took a qualification course days before the attacks.[3] By September 2003, following his training,[3] Kent was deployed to Iraq, where he fought in the First Battle of Fallujah[5] and searched for Iraqi officials.[3] He served eleven combat tours, including deployments in Yemen and north Africa, before retiring. Kent’s final rank was a chief warrant officer. He later became a paramilitary officer with the Central Intelligence Agency.[6]
In December 2014, Kent married Shannon Smith, a cryptologist whom he had met at Fort Belvoir, where he had been assigned to an Army Special Operations Command.[7] They had two children, born in 2015 and 2017.[4] In January 2019, Shannon was killed in a suicide bombing in Manbij. After the bombing, Kent left government work[8] and began to write columns for CNN, Breitbart News, and Fox News speaking out against the War on Terror.[3] He consulted with the White House and volunteered for Veterans for Trump and Concerned Veterans for America.[5]
U.S. congressional campaign in Washington (2021–2022; 2023–2024)
On February 18, 2021,[9] Kent announced his intention to run in the United States House of Representatives election for Washington’s third congressional district as a Republican, citing Jaime Herrera Beutler‘s decision to vote to impeach Donald Trump in his second impeachment following the January 6 Capitol attack.[10] Kent aligned himself with Trump in his campaign announcement.[11] By July, he had raised US$366,000, the most of any candidate in the election at that point,[12] garnered financial support from Steve Wynn and Peter Thiel.[6] In September, Trump endorsed Kent.[13] His prominence was bolstered by Tucker Carlson, who had frequently appeared him on his Fox News program, Tucker Carlson Tonight (2016–2023).[14]
Kent faced allegations of apparent associations between himself and white nationalists during his campaign. In March 2022, he entered into a dispute with the far-right commentator Nick Fuentes, who described a phone call the men had the previous year in which Kent purportedly said, “I love what you’re doing.” After Kent disavowed Fuentes and stated that he had not sought his endorsement over his views on race and religion, Fuentes chastised Kent for not being sufficiently conservative.[15] Kent was later interviewed by American Virtue, an organization associated with Fuentes, and stated that American culture was “anti-white” and “anti-straight-white-male”.[16] The Associated Press reported in July that the Kent campaign had paid a member of the Proud Boys, a far-right militia, as a consultant, that Kent was a political ally of Joey Gibson, a right-wing political activist, and that Kent had photographed himself with Greyson Arnold, a self-described Christian nationalist. The campaign told the Associated Press that Kent was unaware of who Arnold was.[17] In September, CNN reported that Kent had given an interview to Arnold.[18] In his campaign, he made repeated references to Sam Francis, a white nationalist writer.[19]
Kent defeated Herrera Beutler in the state’s open primary in August, though he received less votes than Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, a Democrat.[20] Gluesenkamp Perez shifted her campaign towards issues with broad Democratic appeal, including abortion, as well as schools and jobs.[21] Kent’s views led to Glusenkamp Perez garnering some Republican support.[22] She defeated Kent[23] in one of the largest upsets that year.[24] He refused to concede until “every legal vote is counted”;[25] Kent conceded in December.[26] On January 11, 2023, Kent announced a second campaign for Washington’s third congressional district.[27] Kent married Heather Kaiser[28] that year.[29] Glusenkamp Perez won the 2024 election.[30]
Acting chief of staff to the director of national intelligence (2025–present)
By February 2025, Kent had been serving as the acting chief of staff to Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence;[31] his role was disclosed by The Washington Post in March.[32] Responding to a request from the Trump administration, Kent requested the National Intelligence Council conduct an intelligence assessment on connections between the government of Venezuela and Tren de Aragua; after the report failed to yield associations between the government and the gang, he pressured Michael Collins, the acting chairman, to reassess its analysis after The New York Times reported on the internal report. The assessment conflicted with Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act, which requires a connection to a foreign state.[31] Kent was a member of the Signal group chat involved in one of the United States government group chat leaks.[33]
Director of the National Counterterrorism Center
On February 3, 2025, Donald Trump named Kent as his nominee for director of the National Counterterrorism Center.[34] He appeared before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on April 9, in which he defended his involvement in the Signal group chat and asserted that the government was involved in the January 6 Capitol attack.[35]
Political positions
Domestic issues
Kent has been described as far-right.[a] He voted for George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004 before shifting his political beliefs towards libertarianism, supporting Ron Paul.[6] According to voting records, he was registered with the Libertarian Party in the 2012 presidential election until 2019, when he became a Democrat; Kent voted for Bernie Sanders in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries in order to support Republicans in that year’s presidential election.[39] A spokesman for Kent described his political philosophy as “inclusive populism”, rejecting discrimination.[17]
Kent has adhered to false claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election.[40] A month following the January 6 Capitol attack, he stated that Donald Trump had “no control” over the mob and attributed the severity of the attack to security planning.[10] Kent attended the Justice for J6 rally and compared the treatment of rioters to that of Iraqi citizens in the Iraq War.[41] He later called for releasing security footage of the attack[42] and claimed that the mob was brought to violence by provocateurs associated with the deep state.[43] After the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, Kent told Steve Bannon on War Room (2019–present) that the raid constituted “war”.[44] He called for defunding the Federal Bureau of Investigation in response.[45]
Kent led a rally against a false claim that the Washington State Board of Health was set to forcefully quarantine citizens who did not get the COVID-19 vaccine in January 2022.[46] In March, he appeared at an event organized by the Washington State Three Percenters, a far-right militia.[47] Kent once advocated for a federal ban on abortion, but later narrowed his position towards states’ rights.[43] By the following month, he had called for an investigation into Anthony Fauci over the origin of SARS-CoV-2 and for a complete shutdown in immigration to the United States.[39] In September, Kent stated that Fauci should be charged with murder and described COVID-19 vaccines as “experimental gene therapy”;[45] he is unvaccinated.[3] At a rally with Matt Gaetz in September 2021, Kent advocated for school vouchers.[48]
Foreign policy
At a conference held at Washington Marriott Marquis in April 2022, Kent argued that the “political establishment” seeks to initiate a conflict against Russia, including by providing military assistance to Ukraine—a level of support he outright opposed.[49][39] He stated that Russian president Vladimir Putin‘s demands for Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts were “very reasonable”.[49] His comments on Tucker Carlson Tonight denouncing support for Ukraine as deterring a peace deal were repeated by TASS, a Russian state-owned news agency.[50]
Military affairs
Kent is a non-interventionist, citing his military experience and the death of his wife.[51] He began to question the management of the U.S. military during the Iraq War, when officials sought out to eliminate members of Saddam Hussein‘s government. According to Mother Jones, Kent read David Hackworth‘s memoir About Face (1990), a book critical of the “clerks at the top” directing the U.S.’s involvement in the Vietnam War.[3] He defended Trump’s pardons of two Army officers convicted of Uniform Code of Military Justice offenses, Mathew L. Golsteyn and Clint Lorance, and his intervention in the case of Eddie Gallagher, a Navy SEAL involved in a high-profile war crimes case; in an interview with The New York Times in November 2019, Kent compared Gallagher’s case with that of Chelsea Manning.[52]
Electoral history
2022
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Marie Gluesenkamp Perez | 67,937 | 31.0 | |
Republican | Joe Kent | 18,969 | 25.4 | |
Republican | Jaime Herrera Beutler | 48,828 | 22.3 | |
Republican | Heidi St. John | 35,054 | 16.0 | |
Republican | Vicki Kraft | 7,012 | 3.2 | |
Democratic | Davy Ray | 4,853 | 2.2 | |
Independent | Chris Byrd | 3,785 | 1.7 | |
Republican | Leslie French | 1,091 | 0.5 | |
American Solidarity | Oliver Black | 451 | 0.2 | |
Total votes | 218,898 | 100.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Marie Gluesenkamp Perez | 160,323 | 50.41 | |
Republican | Joe Kent | 157,690 | 49.59 | |
Total votes | 318,013 | 100.0 |
2024
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Marie Gluesenkamp Perez | 97,274 | 45.9 | |
Republican | Joe Kent | 83,389 | 39.3 | |
Republican | Leslie Lewallen | 25,868 | 12.2 | |
Independent | John Saulie-Rohman | 5,406 | 2.6 | |
Total votes | 211,937 | 100.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Marie Gluesenkamp Perez | 215,177 | 51.9 | |
Republican | Joe Kent | 199,054 | 48.1 | |
Total votes | 414,231 | 100.0 |
Notes
References
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- ^ Joseph C Kent in the U.S., Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 2.
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- ^ a b Ryan 2019.
- ^ a b c d e Weisman 2022b.
- ^ a b c Brynelson 2021.
- ^ Oppel 2019.
- ^ Brynelson 2023.
- ^ Hair 2021a.
- ^ a b Brunner 2021a.
- ^ Hair 2021b.
- ^ Brunner 2021b.
- ^ Brunner 2021c.
- ^ Homans 2023.
- ^ Brynelson 2022a.
- ^ Wilson 2025.
- ^ a b Slodysko 2022.
- ^ Kaczynski & Steck 2022.
- ^ Dent 2022.
- ^ Brunner 2022b.
- ^ Brunner 2022c.
- ^ Brunner 2022d.
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- ^ Mutnick, Ferris & Schneider 2022.
- ^ Brynelson 2022b.
- ^ “GOP’s Joe Kent concedes Washington state Congressional race”. Associated Press.
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- ^ Karni & Edmondson 2024.
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- ^ Fertig 2024.
- ^ a b Barnes, Haberman & Savage 2025.
- ^ Nakashima & Silverman 2025.
- ^ Minsberg 2025.
- ^ “Trump nominates Joe Kent as director of National Counter Terrorism Center”. Oregon Public Broadcasting.
- ^ Brunner 2025.
- ^ Karni 2024a: But the bridge in one of the country’s most competitive districts has become a political piñata in the race, which is all but certain to pit Ms. Perez against the far-right Republican Joe Kent, whom she beat in 2022 by less than 1 percentage point.
- ^ Knowles, Sotomayor & Itkowitz 2022: One stark outcome came in Washington state, where far-right Republican candidate Joe Kent lost to Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez after Republicans ousted Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R) — who voted to impeach Trump — in the all-party primary.
- ^ Mutnick & Shepard 2024: In Washington state, Joe Kent, a far-right Republican with ties to white nationalists, appears poised to face Gluesenkamp Perez in the general election again.
- ^ a b c Brunner 2022a.
- ^ Weisman & Broadwater 2022.
- ^ Weisman & Rosenberg 2021.
- ^ Weisman 2022a.
- ^ a b Karni 2024b.
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- ^ a b Gutman 2022.
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- ^ a b Heilbrunn 2022.
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Documents
- “Joseph C Kent in the U.S., Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 2” (Document). Public Records Index.
- “Joseph Clay Kent in the U.S., Index to Public Records, 1994-2019” (Document). Index to Public Records.
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