Marco "Little Marco" Rubio is a Republican politician and lawyer who has a net worth of $400 thousand. Marco Rubio served as the senior United States senator from Florida since 2011. Previously, he served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2008, and unsuccessfully ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. Among his political positions, Rubio opposes women's rights, gun control, and affordable health care, and denies the reality of climate change.

Financial Problems

Between 1998 and 2008 Marco earned $2.38 million from his law career and House salary. Unfortunately, he did not save very much of this income.

When he was first elected to the House in 2000, he literally reported to have a net worth of ZERO. According to his 2009 financial statement, at that time Marco reported his net worth to be negative $37,000. His finances were being pressured under various student debt and multiple mortgages. At one point a property he owned in Tallahassee was facing foreclosure after he reportedly did not make a mortgage payment for five months. He sold this home at an $18,000 loss in 2015.

In 2012 he earned an $800,000 advance to publish a biography.

In the following years after earning the advance, Marco splurged on a number of frivolous purchases, notably an $80,000 speed boat.

His 2018 financial statement estimated his net worth had fallen all the way down to negative $1.3 million.

Early Life and Education

Marco Rubio was born on May 28, 1971 in Miami, Florida as the third child of Cuban immigrants Oriales and Mario, who had come to the United States in 1956 prior to the Cuban Revolution. He has an older brother named Mario Jr. and an older sister named Barbara, as well as a younger sister named Veronica. Rubio spent part of his childhood in Las Vegas, Nevada, where his father worked as a bartender and his mother as a housekeeper. Back in Miami, he attended South Miami Senior High School, from which he graduated in 1989. Rubio went on to attend Tarkio College in Missouri for a year before transferring to Santa Fe Community College in Florida. He then attended the University of Florida, from which he graduated with his BA in political science in 1993. Rubio subsequently enrolled at the University of Miami School of Law, earning his JD in 1996.

Career Beginnings

While he was still in law school, Rubio interned for US Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. Two years after graduating from law school, he was elected to a seat as city commissioner for West Miami.

Florida House of Representatives

In late 1999, Rubio ran in a special election for the 111th House District in the Florida House of Representatives. Although he came in second in the Republican primary, he won the runoff election and subsequently beat Democrat Anastasia Garcia to win the seat. Rubio was reelected unopposed in late 2000, and was reelected unopposed again in 2002. He went on to be reelected to third and fourth terms in 2004 and 2006, respectively. During the final years of his tenure, from late 2006 to late 2008, Rubio served as House Speaker. In that position, he was integral in attempting to push Florida to the far political right, and often clashed with the more moderate Florida Senate.

Teaching Career

After leaving the Florida Legislature in 2008, Rubio started teaching as an adjunct professor at Florida International University under a fellowship appointment. He returned to the school in 2011 after he joined the US Senate. Rubio taught in the Department of Politics and International Relations, heading courses on Florida legislative politics.

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US Senate

In 2009, Rubio announced that he would be running for the US Senate seat being vacated by Mel Martínez. Although he initially trailed incumbent governor Charlie Crist, he ultimately overtook him and won the Republican nomination. Rubio went on to win the general election against Democrat Kendrick Meek. After suspending his failed presidential campaign in early 2016, he ran for reelection to the Senate and won a second term. Rubio was reelected to a third term in 2022 by beating Democrat Val Demings. Early in his Senate tenure, he was an influential defender of the US embargo against Cuba, and was a major proponent of the US's involvement in the military campaign to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi in Libya. Meanwhile, he voted against the Budget Control Act of 2011. Later, in 2013, Rubio was part of a bipartisan group advocating for comprehensive immigration reform legislation. He also voted against an expansion of background checks for gun purchases, and voted against publishing the Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture.

2016 Presidential Campaign

In the spring of 2014, Rubio announced his intention to run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016; he officially launched his campaign the following year. In March of 2016, Rubio suspended his campaign after coming in second place in the primary in Florida, his home state. He later endorsed Donald Trump for president, despite having called him a con artist and "wholly unprepared to be president."

Political Positions

A conservative Republican and a hawk, Rubio prioritizes defense spending, and supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the US's military intervention in Libya in 2011. He opposes women's rights, net neutrality, and affordable health care, and denies the reality of climate change. Additionally, like other members of the GOP, Rubio opposes gun control and is in the pocket of the NRA. In regard to education, he advocates for the expansion of public charter schools and the shuttering of the federal Department of Education.

Rubio has perpetuated GOP lies about election fraud. In 2018, he claimed without evidence that Democrats were part of a conspiracy with election officials to reelect Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson to the Florida Senate. No evidence of voter fraud was found. Later, following the election of Joe Biden to the US presidency in 2020, Rubio defended Trump's choice to lie about fraud in the election. However, he eventually came around to the reality of Biden's victory and voted to certify the election results.

Personal Life

In 1998, Rubio wed former Miami Dolphins cheerleader Jeanette Dousdebes. They have four children together and reside in West Miami, Florida.

Real Estate

At one point in 2001, a year when he made $90,000, the Rubio family's spending was so out of control that Marco and his family moved into his wife's mother's house. Two years later Marco bought the mother-in-law's West Miami house for $175,000.

In 2005 he paid $550,000 for a new home in West Miami.

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Newt Gingrich is a Republican politician who has a net worth of $12 million. According to his own financial disclosure in 2006, at that time Newt Gingrich's net worth was $2.4 million. In 2011, when he was a candidate for President, Newt reported his net worth to be $6.7 million. The majority of his net worth comes from a "multi-million-dollar promissory note from the Gingrich Group, LLC to Gingrich Productions, Inc., entities that are part of Gingrich's eponymous network of nonprofit and for-profit organizations." The value range he gave in 2011 for that promissory note was $5 to $25 million.

Newt Gingrich served as the Speaker of the US House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999, and as the US representative for Georgia's 6^th congressional district from 1979 until 1999. In 2012, he unsuccessfully ran for the Republican presidential nomination.

Early Life and Education

Newt Gingrich was born as Newton McPherson on June 17, 1943 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to single mother Kit, whose marriage to his biological father Newton Sr. last just days. His mother remarried, to career Army officer Robert Gingrich, in 1946. A decade later, the family moved to Europe, living for periods in France and Germany. Gingrich has three younger half-siblings from his mother: Candace, Susan, and Roberta. He also has a half-sister and half-brother from his biological father. When Gingrich was a junior in high school, he moved with his family to Fort Benning, Georgia. He went on to attend Baker High School in Columbus, graduating in 1961. For his higher education, Gingrich attended Emory University, from which he earned his BA in history, and then Tulane University, where he obtained his MA and PhD in European history.

Career Beginnings

Due to his status as a student and a father, Gingrich received deferments from the military during the Vietnam War. He continued on in academia after earning his PhD, first in the history department of West Georgia College, and subsequently in the school's geography department. Gingrich left in 1977 after being denied tenure.

Gingrich became heavily involved in politics in the 1970s. In 1974, he made his first bid for political office running as a Republican for Georgia's 6^th congressional district. He ultimately lost to incumbent Democrat Jack Flynt. Gingrich ran again in 1976, losing to Jimmy Carter.

US House of Representatives

Gingrich finally won election to the US Congress on his third attempt, in 1978. He would go on to be reelected five times from Georgia's 6^th congressional district, serving until 1999. During his final years in Congress, he also served as the 50^th Speaker of the US House of Representatives. Early in his congressional career, Gingrich co-founded the Military Reform Caucus and the Congressional Aviation and Space Caucus, and founded the Conservative Opportunity Society.

In 1989, he became House Minority Whip, giving him a new level of power in the Republican Party. The following year, Gingrich led a protest against George H. W. Bush's deficit reduction package, leading to a federal government shutdown. His efforts and those of other GOP members culminated in the 1994 Republican Revolution, when the Party gained 54 seats and took control of the House for the first time in 40 years.

With the Republicans having taken the House, Gingrich became the new Speaker in 1995. In his role, he oversaw the passage of welfare reform legislation and a capital gains tax cut, and was responsible for numerous government shutdowns. Gingrich was also central to the Republican Party's increasingly close alignment with Christian conservatism.

Gingrich received 84 ethics charges, and in early 1997 was reprimanded by the House for claiming tax-exempt status for a college course he had run for political reasons. Pressured by Republican colleagues, who were planning to rebel against him, Gingrich resigned from the House in early 1999.

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Post-Speakership Career

After leaving the House, Gingrich remained involved in public policy and political consultation. He founded and chaired a number of policy think tanks, including the Center for Health Transformation and American Solutions for Winning the Future. The former filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2012, while the latter, which promoted the deregulation and increase of offshore oil drilling, was shuttered in 2011. Gingrich has also served on various commissions, such as the Hart-Rudman Commission, and has taught at such institutions as Air University and the National Defense University. Elsewhere, he served as an advisor to the Canadian mining company Barrick Gold. On the media front, Gingrich created his own production company, Gingrich Productions.

2012 Presidential Campaign

In 2012, Gingrich sought to return to political office as a Republican candidate for the presidential nomination. After struggling in the Iowa Republican caucuses and New Hampshire Republican primary, he bounced back to win the South Carolina Republican primary. Later, following a disappointing showing in the Delaware primary, Gingrich suspended his campaign.

Relationship with Donald Trump

Leading up to the 2016 presidential election, Gingrich was among the first establishment Republicans to endorse Donald Trump. He consulted on Trump's campaign and encouraged other Republicans to unify behind him. Later, when Trump lost the 2020 election, Gingrich perpetuated the Big Lie that the election had been stolen. He even called for the arrest of poll workers in Pennsylvania.

Personal Life

Gingrich has been married multiple times. His first wife was Jacqueline Battley, his high school geometry teacher; they married in 1962 when Gingrich was 19 and she was 26. The couple had two daughters, Kathy and Jackie. During the marriage, Gingrich had multiple affairs with his congressional campaign volunteers. He ended up divorcing Battley in 1980 after beginning an affair with Marianne Ginther, whom he wed the following year. Once again, Gingrich had an extra-marital affair, this time with Callista Bisek, a House of Representatives staffer two decades his junior. During this affair, he led the impeachment of Bill Clinton on charges related to Clinton's infidelity. Gingrich got divorced from Ginther in 2000 just months after Ginther was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis; he subsequently married his mistress Bisek.

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Liz Cheney is an attorney and politician who has a net worth of $20 million. Liz Cheney served as the US representative for Wyoming from 2017 to 2023. The eldest daughter of former vice president Dick Cheney, she held various positions in the US State Department under George W. Bush, during which time she established a reputation as a staunch neoconservative. Cheney achieved a new level of recognition in 2021 when she served as vice chair of the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack on the US Capitol.

Early Life and Education

Liz Cheney was born on July 28, 1966 in Madison, Wisconsin as the eldest of two daughters of Dick Cheney and Lynne Cheney. Her sister is Mary. After Dick was elected to the US Congress in the 1970s, the family divided its time between Casper, Wyoming and Washington, DC. As a teenager, Cheney attended McLean High School, from which she graduated in 1984. She went on to attend Colorado College, and then the University of Chicago Law School, from which she obtained her Juris Doctor in 1996.

Career Beginnings

Before going to law school, Cheney worked for the State Department and the US Agency for International Development for five years. After that, she worked at the consulting firm Armitage Associates. Upon her graduation from law school, Cheney practiced law at the firm White & Case, and served as an international law attorney and consultant at the International Finance Corporation. She also served as a USAID officer in US embassies in Budapest, Hungary and Warsaw, Poland.

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US State Department, 2002-2007

In 2002, Cheney was named Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs in the US State Department. As a result, she was given control of the Middle East Partnership Initiative. In 2003, Cheney left her post to work on the Bush-Cheney reelection campaign. She returned to the State Department in early 2005 and was named Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs and Coordinator for Broader Middle East and North Africa Initiatives. Cheney oversaw the launches of Fund of the Future and Foundation of the Future, designed to promote democracy and freedom of the press. She also headed the Iran Syria Policy and Operations Group. During her time in the State Department, Cheney became notorious for her neoconservative policies, including her focus on national security and her hawkish military stance.

Post-US State Department

After leaving the State Department, Cheney co-chaired Fred Thompson's 2008 presidential campaign. When he dropped out of the race, she joined Mitt Romney's campaign as a senior foreign policy advisor. In 2009, Cheney partnered with William Kristol and Deborah Burlingame to launch the non-profit organization Keep America Safe, which was intended to uphold the hawkish positions of the Bush-Cheney administration. Cheney went on to become a contributor to Fox News.

US Senate Campaign

In the summer of 2013, Cheney announced her campaign for the US Senate as a Wyoming Republican. Ultimately, her campaign was hobbled by her hawkish foreign policy views and her public spat with her sister over same-sex marriage, as her sister is lesbian. Moreover, Cheney couldn't match the popularity of incumbent Mike Enzi; consequently, she dropped out of the race in early 2014.

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US House of Representatives

Following the retirement of Wyoming congresswoman Cynthia Lummis in late 2015, Cheney announced her campaign for Lummis's House seat in early 2016. She ultimately won the seat with more than 60% of the vote. Cheney went on to win reelection in 2018 and 2020. She also served as the chair of the House Republican Conference from 2019 to 2021.

Despite predominantly voting in line with Donald Trump during the first five years of her tenure, Cheney eventually began opposing the president, especially after he instigated the January 6 insurrection on the US Capitol. Due to her anti-Trump stance, including her support of his second impeachment, the Freedom Caucus of the House Republican Conference attempted to remove her from party leadership in early 2021, but was unsuccessful. A second attempt later in the year worked, and Cheney was removed from her position. In further consequences of her involvement in the investigation of the Trump-led attack on the Capitol, her Wyoming Republican Party membership was revoked in late 2021, and she lost renomination in the US Senate race to Harriet Hageman in 2022.

House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack

In the summer of 2021, Cheney was appointed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the bipartisan House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the US Capitol. She was eventually made vice chair of the Committee. As one of the central figures in reporting on the investigation, Cheney concluded that former president Donald Trump had instigated the attack by spreading false information about the 2020 election and summoning a mob of domestic terrorists to undermine the peaceful transition of power to Joe Biden's administration. The Committee recommended charging the former president on multiple counts, including obstruction of an official proceeding, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and attempts to incite an insurrection.

Personal Life

Cheney married her husband, attorney Philip Perry, in 1993. They have five children: Philip Jr., Kate, Elizabeth, Grace, and Richard.

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Tucker Carlson is an American political commentator, author and TV personality who has net worth of $30 million. Tucker was a CNN commentator from 2000 to 2005. From 2005 to 2008 he hosted a show on MSNBC. He went to work at Fox News in 2009. He began hosting a nightly talk show called "Tucker Carlson Tonight" in 2016.

On April 24, 2023 Tucker was fired from Fox News. The departure, which came was one week after Fox paid $787.5 million to settle a defamation suit brought by Dominion Voting Systems, sent shock waves through the media industry. In a strange twist, Don Lemon was abruptly fired from CNN on the same day.

Outside of television, Tucker is the co-founder of the website The Daily Caller. He is also a published author and columnist.

On May 9, 2023, Tucker announced he would be launching a new show on Twitter. By doing so, he opted to forgo an estimated $25 million that was owed to him on his Fox News contract. More details on this and other Tucker contracts in the next section.

Salary & Fox Contract

Tucker Carlson's peak Fox salary, which was earning at the time of his firing, was $10 million per year.

When Tucker went from a weekend correspondent to taking over Bill O'Reilly's former prime-time 8pm weeknight slot, his salary was increased from $2 million to $6 million per year. And while that may seem like a big bump, O'Reilly had been earning $25 million. Tucker soon was significant outperforming O'Reilly in terms of ratings.

Tucker operated under that contract through February 2021 when he signed an 3-4 year extension that increased his salary to $10 million. This extension expanded Tucker's deal to include a podcast made up from interviews from his show and monthly originals under the banner "Tucker Carlson Originals."

In the months before his sudden firing, Tucker had been negotiating a new contract extension that would have kept him at Fox through 2029.

What happens next with Tucker and Fox?

If Fox was looking to NOT pay him the remainder of his contract ($10 million per year for another 2-3 years), they would have had to prove that Carlson was fired for cause. If that were able to prove that, Fox could have booted Carlson without paying him any more money.

On the other hand, Fox might actually have wanted to keep Tucker under contract to prevent him from joining a rival network for the remainder of his deal (2-3 years). In other words, Tucker could have chosen to continue to earn $10 million per year under his former contract, but he would not be allowed to appear on any other networks or rival news media outlets. He likely would also not have been permitted to host a podcast, produce specials or publicly disparage his former employer.

And on May 9, 2023 we got our answer!

Tucker opted to opt-out of his Fox contract and forge ahead independently with a new show on Twitter. Assuming he was owed $10 million per year for the roughly 2.5 years that were left on his Fox contract, Tucker opted to forgo $25 million in guaranteed earnings to be let out of his former deal.

Early Life

Tucker was born in San Francisco but was raised mostly in Southern California. His father was an LA news anchor and ambassador to the Seychelles named Richard Warner Carlson. Tucker's mother left the family when he was just six years old. When Tucker was 10, Richard married Patricia Caroline Swanson. Patricia was exceptionally wealthy thanks to her grandfather Carl A. Swanson, who founded the Swanson frozen foods empire.

He attended Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut where he graduated with a degree in history in 1991.

Success

His work as a journalist began in print at publications such as Policy Review and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. From there, he landed gigs as a columnist for periodicals like Reader's Digest and New York Magazine. He also has appeared in newspapers and magazines like Esquire, The Weekly Standard, The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, and The Daily Beast. Carlson began his career in TV as one of the hosts of the CNN panel discussion program Crossfire. On this show, Carlson generally took up the position of the right-wing point of view.

His most notable work during this period was during a contentious interview with comedian Jon Stewart, which many analysts believe directly led to Crossfire's cancellation soon after. Since then, Carlson has found jobs on both of CNN's primary competitors, MSNBC and most recently on Fox News.

For many years Carlson was famous not only for his sometimes-idiosyncratic conservative views, but his trademark bow-tie. Wearing a bow-tie was often referred to as "the Tucker Carlson look".

In 2017, Tucker took over the slot that Bill O'Reilly left vacant after he was fired from Fox News. Within a few years "Tucker Carlson Tonight" was the highest-rated show on Fox News by significant margin. With average nightly viewership of 3.4 million, Tucker had more viewers than his CNN and MSNBC counterparts combined.

On April 24, 2023, Tucker stunned the media world by announcing he had left Fox News effective immediately and his final broadcast was the previous Friday, April 21.

Book Deal

Around the time of his elevation at Fox News, Tucker signed a lucrative book deal. The deal was reported to be worth $15 million and covered several books. Carlson's "Politicians, Partisans, and Parasites: My Adventures in Cable News" came out in 2003. In 2018, he released "Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution, and in 2021, "The Long Slide: Thirty Years in American Journalism."

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Daily Caller

In 2010 Tucker and Neil Patel co-founded DailyCaller.com, a right-wing news and opinion property. They positioned it as a conservative version of The Huffington Post. In June 2020 Tucker sold his 1/3 stake to Patel for an undisclosed amount.

Personal Life

Tucker has been married to Susan Andrews since 1991. They met (and later married) at the chapel of St. George School, a boarding high school in Middletown, Rhode Island. They have four children. Carlson is left-handed and dyslexic.

For nearly a decade, Tucker and his brother Buckley have been embroiled in a lawsuit related to their estranged mother's estate. Their mother Lisa Vaughn was the beneficiary of an oil and gas partnership in rural areas of central California that covered a combined total of 70,000 acres of land. At one point the brothers thought the royalty rights were worth a fairly insignificant amount of money, maybe $125,000 at most. They eventually learned the rights were worth a minimum of $2.5 million. They sued their late mother's estate which expressly left each brother the nominal amount of $1. That lawsuit is reportedly still unsettled as of this writing.

Real Estate

In 2011, Tucker and Susan traded down from a $4 million home to a $2 million home in the Washington D.C. neighborhood of Kent. They sold that house for $2.04 million in November 2017.

In July 2017 they bought a new house again in the same neighborhood of Kent for $3.895 million. They put this home up for sale in July 2020 for $3.95 million, a slight increase. They sold the home within a month at asking. They reportedly decided to sell the home after a group of protestors came onto the driveway and even rang their doorbell.

In early-2020 Tucker paid $2.9 million for a home on Gasparilla Island in Florida. In mid-2022 they paid $5.5 million for a second home on Gasparilla. The properties, which are located side-by-side, are within a community called Boca Grande.

Today the Carlsons split their time between their Florida home and a home located on his family's property in Maine.

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Elizabeth Dole is an American politician who has a net worth of $40 million. Elizabeth was married to the former Senator Bob Dole from 1975 until his death in December 2021. Elizabeth is a longstanding member of the Republican Party. She served in both the Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush presidential administrations. She served as a Senator from 2003 to 2009, director of the FTC from 1973 to 1979, Secretary of Transportation from 1983 to 1987 and Secretary of Labor from 1989 to 1990. In a six-year period from 2003 to 2009 was a member of the U.S. Senate, becoming the first female Senator to represent North Carolina. She is also the former chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

Financial Disclosures

In 1996, during Bob's Presidential campaign, the Doles estimated their net worth to be $2.3 to $7.7 million. That's the same as around $4 – $13 million in today's dollars. At the time Bob was earning a $148,000 salary as a Senator, $10,000 per year in speaking fees and $18,660 in military retirement benefits. Elizabeth on the other hand was earning north of $100,000 per year in speaking fees, earning around $900,000 from speaking fees in a three year period alone between 1991 and 1994. She donated much of her earnings to the Red Cross.

In her 2007 Senate financial disclosure, Elizabeth estimated that she and Bob were worth a minimum of $14 million and a maximum of $49 million.

Early Life

She was born Mary Elizabeth Alexander Hanford on July 29, 1936, in Salisbury, North Carolina. After finishing high school, Dole attended Duke University and completed a degree in political science. While at Duke, she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, was in the chapel choir, and was the president of the women's student government association. After graduating from Duke, she did post-graduate work at Oxford in 1959. She then took a job as a student teacher at Melrose High School in Massachusetts for a year. She also enrolled in a master's degree program in education at Harvard University, followed by the law program. She earned a J.D. from Harvard in 1965. She was one of 24 women in a class of 550 students.

Career

Dole was involved in politics while still in school. She campaigned for the Kennedy-Johnson presidential ticket in 1960. In 1967, she began working as a staff assistant to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in the Lyndon B. Johnson administration. When Richard Nixon replaced Johnson as president, Dole served as deputy assistant to President Nixon for consumer affairs from 1969 to 1973. In 1973, she was appointed to a seven-year term on the Federal Trade Commission. She later resigned from the post to campaign for her husband, Bob Dole, who ran for president in 1980.

In 1981, she served as the director of the White House Office of Public Liaison until 1983. She then served as the United States Secretary of Transportation from 1983 to 1987 under Ronald Reagan. She was also tasked with chairing various committees that sought to reform federal and state laws to ensure equal rights for women. From 1989 to 1990, she served as the United States Secretary of Labor under President George H. W. Bush. She became the first woman to serve in two different Cabinet positions in the administrations of two presidents. Her tenure in both roles focused on improving public safety and workplace safety and health.

In 1991, Dole became the president of the American Red Cross. She served in that role until 1999. She was only the second woman to serve as president since Clara Barton founded the organization in 1881. She restructured the organization during her eight years as president and transformed the way the Red Cross collects, tests, and distributes one-half of the nation's blood supply.

In 1999, Dole ran for the Republican nomination in the 2000 United States presidential election. She ultimately placed third, behind George W. Bush and Steve Forbes, in some polls and in second place in others. She withdrew from the race before the primaries, largely due to inadequate fundraising. She was considered by George W. Bush for his vice presidential nominee, though he ultimately chose Dick Cheney.

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In late 2001, Dole moved from D.C. to Salisbury, North Carolina to seek election to the U.S. Senate after Senator Jesse Helms retired. She won the Republican primary with 80% of the vote and then defeated the Democratic opponent in the general election to take the Senate seat. In 2004, she became chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, becoming the first woman to ever chair the NRSC. She was later replaced by Senator John Ensign of Nevada in 2006.

While a Senator, Dole was a member of a number of committees including the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services, the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, the U.S. Senate Committee on Aging, and the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Dole was generally considered to be conservative in her viewpoints, which is reflected in her voting record.

Dole was considered a favorite for reelection to her Senate seat in 2008. She ran against the Democratic opponent, Kay Hagan. However, after running an attack ad against Hagan, her popularity slipped and she lost in the 2008 election by a wider than expected margin. She officially vacated her Senate seat in 2009.

Following her political career, Dole established the Elizabeth Dole Foundation in 2012. The organization is dedicated to providing resources and help to the caregivers of wounded military members. It selects military and veteran caregivers from each state to serve a two-year Fellowship with the Foundation. In 2022, the Foundation began working with the civil rights icon and veteran Bobby Grier. Actor Tom Hanks has also joined the Foundation's Hidden Heroes Campaign to raise awareness.

Dole has authored two books over her lifetime – "The Doles: Unlimited Partners" and "Hearts Touched by Fire: My 500 Inspirational Quotations." She has also been the subject of two books – "Elizabeth Dole: A Leader in Washington" and "Elizabeth Hanford Dole: Speaking from the Heart."

Personal Life

Dole met her future husband, Bob Dole, in the spring of 1972 at a meeting arranged by her then boss and mentor, Virginia Knauer. They began dating and then married in December of 1975 in the Washington National Cathedral. They had no children together though Dole is the stepmother to her husband's daughter, Robin, from his first marriage. She is a regular church-goer and attended the National Presbyterian Church in D.C. beginning in 1996.

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Rachel Campos-Duffy is a conservative American television personality who has a net worth of $100,000. Rachel Campos-Duffy first became famous when she was part of the MTV reality television series "The Real World: San Francisco" in 1994 and is now known as a co-host on "Fox & Friends Weekend." Rachel has been married to politician Sean Duffy since 1999. They have eight children together. In his 2009 wealth disclosure, Sean Duffy was revealed to be one of the poorest members of Congress. Duffy disclosed at the time that he and Rachel had mortgage debts between $250,000 and $500,000, student loan debts totaling $100,000, family loans worth $250,000 and $50,000 in credit card debt.

Early Life & Education

Rachel Campos was born on October 22, 1971, in Tempe, Arizona. Her parents, Miguel Campos and Maria del Pilar were both junior-high school teachers in Chandler, Arizona. Rachel attended Seton Catholic Preparatory High School and then continued her education at Arizona State University where she graduated in December of 1993 with a degree in economics. She was the recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Graduate Fellowship which she had planned to use to attend graduate school and become a college professor. Rachel earned a master's degree in international affairs from the University of California, San Diego.

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TV Career

Rachel Campos-Duffy got her start when cast on "The Real World San Francisco" in January of 1994 where she lived in a house on Russian Hill with six roommates. She was depicted on the show and in MTV's promotions as being a passionate Republican, and her political viewpoints oftentimes led to conflict with her housemates. In 1998, Campos-Duffy was part of "Road Rules: All Stars" where she met her future husband, Sean Duffy of the "Real World: Boston" cast. Rachel was one of 10 "Real World" alumni to star in 2003's "The Wedding Video" film.

From 2007 to 2008, Rachel Campos-Duffy starred on the TV series "Life Is Like." She served as a co-host on the series "The View" from 2003 to 2014. And from 2016 to 2017, Rachel was a panelist on the television series "Cashin' In". Rachel Campos-Duffy also co-hosted the TV series "Outnumbered" starting in 2014, the same year she began co-hosting the series "Fox & Friends."

Campos-Duffy made appearances on episodes of the TV series "Hannity," "Tucker Carlson Tonight," "The Ingraham Angle," "The Fox News Specialists," "Lou Dobbs Tonight," and more before being hired as a permanent co-host on "Fox & Friends Weekend" in May of 2021.

Personal Life

Rachel Campos-Duffy married "Road Rules: All Stars" costar Sean Duffy in 1999, and the couple has nine children together. They lived in Ashland, Wisconsin, where Sean was the District Attorney of Ashland County but then moved to Wausau so that Sean could be closer to the airport for his weekly commute to Washington, D.C., after becoming a Republican member of Congress for the 7th district of Wisconsin.

After Rachel's "Real World" stint ended, she was involved in a head-on car collision when the driver of the other vehicle fell asleep at the wheel. The impact killed Campos' boyfriend and his friend, who was driving the rental car. Rachel was thrown from the passenger seat and sustained injuries to her right leg causing long-term problems such as arthritis, a limp, and difficulty running.

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Barbara Bush was an American philanthropist and former First Lady of the United States who had a net worth of $25 million at the time of her death in 2018. Barbara Bush was most famous for being the wife of the 41st President of the United States, George H.W. Bush. His term lasted from 1989 to 1993. Her children include former US President George W. Bush and former governor of Florida Jeb Bush. Notably, Bush is one of only two women, the other being Abigail Adams, to be the wife of one US president and the mother of another.

Early Life and Education

Barbara Bush was born as Barbara Pierce on June 8, 1925 in New York City to Pauline and Marvin, and was brought up in the coastal suburb of Rye. She had two older siblings named Martha and James, as well as a younger brother named Scott. Her father gained recognition when he became the president of McCall Corporation, the publisher of the popular women's magazines McCall's and Redbook. For her education, Pierce went to Milton Public School from 1931 to 1937; Rye Country Day School until 1940; and finally the Charleston, South Carolina boarding school Ashley Hall until 1943. She excelled in athletics and enjoyed tennis, swimming, and cycling. Pierce went on to attend Smith College.

Marriage and Children

While on vacation in Greenwich, Connecticut as a 16-year-old, Pierce met Phillips Academy student George H. W. Bush at the Round Hill Country Club. A year and a half later, the two got engaged just before Bush went to serve in the Navy during World War II. The couple finally married in early 1945. They proceeded to move frequently around the United States, living in states such as Maryland and Virginia before settling in Texas. Over the first 13 years of their marriage, the Bushes had six children: George W., Pauline, Jeb, Neil, Marvin, and Dorothy.

Years in Texas

The Bushes had some of their most significant early years in Texas, where George worked in the oil business and helped found the Zapata Corporation. In 1963, George was elected as chairman of the Harris County Republican Party; the next year, he unsuccessfully ran for the Senate. By this time, the Bushes had made their name on the national political scene.

First Years in Washington

In 1966, George was elected to Congress as a representative from Texas. He was elected or appointed to a number of other government positions over the subsequent years, with his wife accompanying him on the campaign trail. As the wife of a congressperson, Barbara took on various charity projects and got involved in Republican women's groups in Washington. After her husband was appointed as an ambassador to the United Nations in the early 70s, she started developing relationships with prominent diplomats.

China Years and Depression

The Bushes relocated to China in 1974 when George was appointed head of the US Liaison Office in the country. There, they often cycled and explored various cities and regions. In 1977, George was recalled to the States to become the director of central intelligence at the CIA. During this time, Barbara felt disillusioned with her life and felt she was not accomplishing her goals, sending her into a depression. Instead of seeking help, she started giving speeches and presentations about her years in China.

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Second Lady of the United States

In 1980, George ran as the running mate of Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan, who won the election. Barbara thus became the Second Lady of the United States, a position she held from 1981 until 1989. During this time, she became interested in literacy issues due to the dyslexia of her son Neil, and worked with a variety of literacy organizations. She also penned a children's book entitled "C. Fred's Story," and continued her speaking engagements.

First Lady of the United States

Upon the presidential inauguration of her husband in 1989, Barbara became the First Lady of the United States. In this role, she continued her commitment to issues of family literacy, getting involved with several literacy organizations and chairing various reading groups. She eventually helped establish the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy. In addition to literacy, Barbara supported LGBTQ rights, AIDS awareness, and abortion access. She was active in the White House Historical Association and helped revitalize the White House Preservation Fund, renamed by her as the White House Endowment Trust.

Post-FLOTUS

After leaving the White House in 1993, the Bushes returned to Texas. Their son George W. became the governor of Texas shortly after that. Barbara later campaigned for him when he announced his presidential bid in 1999. In 2016, she grudgingly campaigned for her other son Jeb's presidential run.

Illness and Death

In 1988, Barbara was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an autoimmune disorder. She later developed COPD and congestive heart failure due to her chronic smoking. In the spring of 2018, Barbara Bush passed away at her home in Houston at the age of 92. Her husband, who had coincidentally also been diagnosed with Graves' disease, died seven months later in late 2018 at the age of 94.

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Lauren Boebert is a Republican politician and businesswoman who has a net worth of $400 thousand. That is a combined net worth with her husband Jayson Boebert who in recent years has earned nearly $500,000 per year as a consultant. As a member of the US House of Representatives, Lauren earns an annual salary of $174,000. Lauren Boebert was elected to the US representative for Colorado's 3^rd congressional district in 2020 and began serving in 2021. A fervid gun rights advocate, she previously owned the now-defunct restaurant Shooters Grill in Rifle, Colorado. Among many other reasons, Boebert is also infamous for her ties to far-right extremist groups, her anti-LGBTQ views, and her attempts to help overturn the 2020 presidential election results.

Financial Disclosure Report

According to her August 2022 House of Representatives Financial Disclosure Report, Lauren and her husband carry less than $15,000 in a primary checking account and less than $15,000 four additional retirement and investment accounts. Other reported assets include capital gains from something called Crypto Money Movement COIN that's worth less than $15,000 and a handful of other investments that are each worth less than $1,000.

Additional disclosures showed that Lauren's husband Jayson earned $480,000 and $460,000 in 2022 and 2021, respectively, from a consulting business called Boebert Consulting. In terms of liabilities, they owe Pennymac bank between $250,000 and $500,000 for a mortgage connected to their personal home in Rifle, Colorado, which according to public estimates is worth between $600,000 and $700,000. The value of the couple's former restaurant business is listed at less than $15,000.

Lauren Boebert is NOT Worth $41 Million

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Early Life and Education

Lauren Boebert was born as Lauren Roberts on December 19, 1986 in Altamonte Springs, Florida. When she was 12, she moved with her family to Denver, Colorado; they later moved to Aurora before finally settling in Rifle in 2003. Boebert went to Rifle High School, but dropped out in her senior year after having a baby.

Career Beginnings

After dropping out of high school, Boebert became an assistant manager at a McDonald's in Rifle. Later, following her marriage, she had a filing job at a natural gas drilling company. Boebert eventually became a pipeliner.

Restaurants

In 2013, Boebert and her husband opened the restaurant Shooters Grill in Rifle, Colorado. She encouraged the restaurant's staff to openly carry firearms due to a false claim she made that a man was beaten to death outside of the restaurant. Boebert also owned a restaurant across the street called Smokehouse 1776, and had another restaurant called Putters that she sold in late 2016.

In 2017, temporary locations set up by Shooters Grill and Smokehouse 1776 allegedly caused a food poisoning outbreak at a fair in Garfield County. The restaurants reportedly did not have permits to operate their temporary locations, and that they allegedly handled the food without proper hygiene.

Boebert caused more chaos in 2020 during the COVID pandemic when she violated Colorado's stay-at-home order by reopening Shooters Grill for dine-in. Her food license was soon suspended, and Shooters Grill was eventually shuttered in the summer of 2022.

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US House of Representatives

Boebert decided to enter federal politics in late 2019 when she announced her campaign to represent Colorado's 3^rd congressional district as a US representative. Facing five-term incumbent Scott Tipton in the Republic primary, and then Democrat Diane Mitsch Bush in the general, Boebert ran on a campaign that celebrated far-right extremism and gun ownership. She also vocally embraced conspiracy theories promoted by QAnon. Boebert ultimately won the election.

In 2021, Boebert got into trouble with the FEC for using her reelection campaign funds for personal expenses. She eventually submitted documents to the FEC showing that the money was used for rental and utilities bills, and that it had since been reimbursed. However, controversy continued to plague her during her campaign, mostly for the many inflammatory and false statements she made. Notably, Boebert perpetuated the Big Lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, and claimed that Anthony Fauci was responsible for facilitating the COVID pandemic. She still managed to pull out the win in the general election, albeit by a very narrow margin.

Political Positions

Boebert opposes women's rights, LGBTQ rights, immigrant rights, clean energy, sex education, gun control, universal healthcare, and safety measures in the control of COVID-19. During the height of the pandemic, she objected to facemasks and vaccines, and was fined for violating Congress's mask mandate.

Among her other positions, she supported the insurrectionists who stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, and subsequently voted to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Boebert has advocated for the abolishment of the US Department of Education. She has made racist remarks about other US representatives, including Ilhan Omar.

Boebert Consulting

In 2012, Lauren's husband Jayson launched Boebert Consulting, which works with the Colorado natural gas company Terra Energy. Financial disclosures in the lead-up to the 2022 election showed that Jayson earned $478,386 in 2020 and $460,601 in 2021 from the consulting company.

Personal Life

In 2007, Boebert married her husband Jayson. Together, they have four sons. Boebert became a born-again Christian in 2009.

A few years before Boebert married him, Jayson allegedly exposed his penis to two women at a bowling alley in Colorado, and was sentenced to four days in jail and two years of probation. Boebert got into legal trouble herself in 2016 when she was cited for careless driving and operating an unsafe vehicle. In early 2017, she was arrested and booked for failure to appear in court.

Real Estate

Lauren and Jayson live on a 5-acre property in Rifle, Colorado that features a 4-bedroom, 2,700 square-foot home that dates back to the early 1900s. It's unclear when they purchased the property or for how much, but according to House financial disclosures, they carry a mortgage with Pennymac bank that is estimated in the "$250,000 – 500,000" range.

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Kevin McCarthy is an American politician who has a net worth of $300 thousand. As a senior member of Congress, Kevin McCarthy's annual salary was $175,000. As Speaker of the House of Representatives, his salary is $223,500. According to Kevin's latest financial disclosure, which was given in 2018, at that time his net worth was $223,002. His assets ranged in value from $181,000 to $415,000 at that time and his liabilities ranged from $100,000 to $200,000. His financial disclosure listed two liabilities, a mortgage on his personal home in Bakersfield, California in the range of $50-100k and Department of Education loan in the same range for a dependent child. His peak reported net worth was $300,000, as reported in his 2014 disclosure. As of this writing he is the 270th richest member of the House of Representatives.

Kevin McCarthy is a Republican who served as a member of the California State Assembly from the 32nd district from December 2002 to November 2006. McCarthy then served as the Minority Leader of the California State Assembly from January 2004 to April 2006 and the House Republican Chief Deputy Whip from January 2009 to January 2011. Kevin became a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 22nd district in January 2007 and began representing the 23rd district in 2013 and the 20th district in 2023. McCarthy served as House Majority Whip from January 2011 to August 2014 and was the House Majority Leader from August 2014 to January 2019. Kevin was the House Minority Leader from January 2019 to January 2023, and he has also served as chairman of the Young Republican National Federation and the California Young Republicans. In 2010, he published the book "Young Guns: A New Generation of Conservative Leaders," which he co-wrote with Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan.

McCarthy supported Donald Trump's false claims that the 2020 presidential election had been stolen, and though he initially said that Trump "bears responsibility" for the insurrection that took place on January 6, 2021, he later said that Trump didn't provoke the attack on the Capital. In February 2021, it was reported that McCarthy and Trump got into a shouting match during the insurrection when Kevin called to ask for help and Donald refused, responding, "Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are."

In early 2023, McCarthy made history when he lost the vote for Speaker of the House 14 times before finally being voted in on the 15th ballot in the early hours of January 7th. This was the first time since 1923 that the Speaker of the House has not been elected on the first ballot.

Early Life

Kevin McCarthy was born Kevin Owen McCarthy on January 26, 1965, in Bakersfield, California. Kevin is the son of homemaker Roberta Palladino and assistant city fire chief Owen McCarthy, and he grew up in a working-class family of Democrats. McCarthy's heritage is Italian on his mother's side and Irish on his father's side. When McCarthy was 21, he opened Kevin O's Deli, and he was inspired to go into public service after experiencing the "redundant and frivolous rules along with tedious paperwork and overburdening taxes" involved with running a small business. He sold the business to pay for college, and in 1989, he graduated from California State University, Bakersfield, with a Bachelor of Science in marketing. In 1994, Kevin earned a Master of Business Administration from the school, and as a college student, he worked for the Kern County Fire Department as a seasonal firefighter and landed an internship with Congressman Bill Thomas.

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Career

From 1987 to 2002, McCarthy was a staff member at Congressman Bill Thomas' office, and he was Thomas' district director from the late '90s until 2000. In the mid-1990s, Kevin became chairman of the California Young Republicans, and he served as chairman of the Young Republican National Federation from 1999 to 2000. McCarthy was elected a Kern Community College District trustee in 2000 and a California State Assembly member in 2002. In 2006, Bill Thomas retired from the House of Representatives and Kevin won his seat with 70.7% of the vote. After the insurrection in 2021, Thomas went on television to express disappointment in his former protégé repeating Trump's "phony lies" about the 2020 election, and in a 2022 interview with "The New Yorker,"  Bill stated, "The Kevin McCarthy who is now, at this time, in the House isn't the Kevin McCarthy I worked with. At least from outward appearances. You never know what's inside, really. Kevin basically is whatever you want him to be. He lies. He'll change the lie if necessary. How can anyone trust his word?"

After being elected to the House of Representatives, McCarthy ran unopposed in 2008 and 2010. In subsequent elections, he got 73.2% of the vote against No Party Preference candidate Terry Phillips (2012), 74.8% against Democratic candidate Raul Garcia (2014), 69.2% against Democratic candidate Wendy Reed (2016), 64.3% against Democratic candidate Tatiana Matta (2018), 62.1% against Democratic candidate Kim Mangone (2020), and 67.3% against Democratic candidate Marisa Wood (2022). Kevin served as House Majority Leader from 2014 to 2019 and House Minority Leader from 2019 to 2023, and he has been a member of the Committee on Financial Services, the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government-Sponsored Enterprises, the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, and the Congressional Western Caucus. McCarthy was the House Republican Chief Deputy Whip from 2009 to 2011 and the House Majority Whip from 2011 from 2014, and he began serving on the House Republican steering committee as a freshman congressman.

Republicans narrowly won control of the House of Representatives in the 2022 midterm elections, and the election for Speaker of the House began on January 3, 2023, with 203 House members voting for McCarthy, 212 voting for Democrat Hakeem Jeffries, and 19 voting for other Republicans on the first ballot. Kevin was eventually voted Speaker of the House with 216 votes in the 15th round of voting at 12:37 a.m. on January 7th. This was the first time since 1859 that the vote for Speaker of the House had taken more than nine ballots to elect a winner.

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Personal Life

Kevin married Judy Wages in 1992, and they have two children, Meghan and Connor. McCarthy used to be on the board of the Community Action Partnership of Kern, and he is a supporter of the MLB team the Los Angeles Dodgers. Shortly after Kevin dropped out of the Speaker of the House race in 2015, he was accused of having an affair with married Republican congresswoman Renee Ellmers. A few days before McCarthy dropped out, Representative Walter B. Jones Jr. sent a letter to Republican Conference chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers in which he urged his fellow Republican members of Congress to step aside if they had committed any "misdeeds." McCarthy and Ellmers both denied allegations of an affair.

Real Estate

McCarthy and his wife own a 1,571 square foot home in Bakersfield, California, that was built in 1987. The home includes three bedrooms and two bathrooms, and Kevin and Judy bought the home in 1996. The home's estimated market value was approximately $300,000, and McCarthy's 2019 financial disclosure stated that his mortgage on the house at the time was between $50,001 and $100,000.

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Charlie Kirk is an American businessman, entrepreneur, author, and producer who has a net worth of $5 million. Charlie Kirk is best known for founding Turning Point USA in 2012. The conservative nonprofit organization has affiliates including Turning Point News, Turning Point Action, the Turning Point Endowment, and Students for Trump. Turning Point USA has a Professor Watchlist that lists college professors who allegedly "discriminate against conservative students, promote anti-American values and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom." The organization has been accused of attempting to influence student government elections and engaging in racist practices and illegal involvement in the 2016 presidential election. Turning Point USA is listed as an alt-lite organization by the Anti-Defamation League and was called a far-right organization by CBS News. Charlie founded the organization when he was 18 years old, and in 2019, he created a new 501(c)(4) organization called Turning Point Action, which is a political action committee intended to target Democrats.

Kirk hosts and produces the radio program "The Charlie Kirk Show," and he has published the books "Time for a Turning Point: Setting a Course Toward Free Markets and Limited Government for Future Generations" (2016), "Campus Battlefield: How Conservatives Can WIN the Battle on Campus and Why It Matters" (2018), and "The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future" (2020). He also produced the 2021 TV special "Freedom Night in America feat. Charlie Kirk & Eric Metaxas at Dream City Church in Phoenix LIVE."

Early Life

Charlie Kirk was born Charles J. Kirk on October 14, 1993, in Arlington Heights, Illinois. Charlie's mother works as a mental health counselor, and his father served as the project architect manager for New York City's Trump Tower. Kirk grew up in Prospect Heights, Illinois, and he was raised by his mother. Charlie was a boy scout, earning the rank of Eagle Scout, and he attended Wheeling High School. During his junior year, he volunteered for the Senate campaign of Republican Mark Kirk (who is not related to him), and as a senior, he launched a campaign to undo a price increase for cookies in the school cafeteria.

After writing an essay about liberal bias in textbooks for the far-right website "Breitbart News," Charlie appeared on Fox Business. He later spoke at Benedictine University's "Youth Empowerment Day," where he met Bill Montgomery, a legislative candidate who was backed by the Tea Party. Montgomery encouraged Kirk to become involved with political activism full-time, and Charlie founded Turning Point USA, a "non-profit organization whose mission is to identify, educate, train, and organize students to promote freedom." He met Republican donor Foster Friess at the 2012 Republican National Convention and convinced him to finance Turning Point USA. Kirk briefly attended the junior community college Harper College in Palatine, Illinois.

Career

Charlie serves as the CEO and chief fundraiser of Turning Point USA. In 2020, the organization was investigated by ProPublica, which concluded that it made "misleading financial claims." ProPublica also reported that "Kirk's salary has grown from $27,000 to nearly $300,000, and he no longer lives with his parents — last May he bought a $855,000 two-bedroom, two-bathroom oceanfront condo in Longboat Key, Florida, county property records show." In 2021, Turning Point USA announced that it would be establishing an online academy geared toward students attending schools that were "poisoning our youth with anti-American ideas." StrongMind, an Arizona-based education firm, partnered with the organization but eventually cut ties with Turning Point USA due to backlash from employees. The subcontractor Freedom Learning Group had been preparing course content for the academy, but it backed out after discovering that Turning Point USA would be running the school.

In 2019, Charlie launched the 501(c)(4) entity Turning Point Action, which acquired Students for Trump and "all associated media assets." Kirk subsequently announced a campaign to enlist one million students to vote for Donald Trump in his 2020 re-election campaign, but when it was unsuccessful, the Trump campaign and Turning Point USA blamed each other for the decline in youth support since the 2016 election.

In 2017, Charlie formed Turning Point Endowment Inc., whose "mission is to support and benefit Turning Point USA's charitable purposes and long-term vitality," and in 2021, he founded Turning Point Faith after his contract with Liberty University's Falkirk Center for Faith and Liberty (which was co-founded by Kirk and Jerry Falwell, Jr.) was not renewed. Turning Point Faith's mission is to "engage, equip, and empower Christians to change the trajectory of our nation." Charlie serves on the Council for National Policy, a secretive group of conservative activists, and he is a spokesman for CNP Action. In 2020, Kirk was temporarily banned from Twitter for spreading false information about COVID-19 and saying that hydroxychloroquine was "100% effective in treating the virus."

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Personal Life

Charlie is an evangelical Christian, and he married businesswoman/podcaster Erika Frantzve on May 25, 2021. Frantzve was crowned Miss Arizona USA in 2012. Charlie and Erika welcomed a daughter in August 2022, and they kept the pregnancy a secret from the public. When Kirk returned to "The Charlie Kirk Show" after his daughter's birth, he stated, "In a world where everything is put on social media, where everything is constantly being posted and being talked about, we made a decision—my wife and I—to keep one thing rather private. And I'll tell you it was not easy….Outside of some close family and friends, my wife Erika and I, we decided not to tell the world that she was pregnant." He added, "And we did that for a variety of reasons, some being security, and also just being that it's not about social media. It's not about the millions of people that might talk about it to get likes and to get shares and all of that."

Awards and Honors

In 2018, Kirk was included on "Forbes" magazine's "30 Under 30" list in the "Law & Policy" category. In 2019, he received an honorary doctorate from Liberty University, a Baptist university in Virginia.

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