A former aide to Vice President Mike Pence announced her candidacy for Congress earlier this week, testing whether Democratic primary voters will back a Trump expat for the U.S. House.
Eagle-eyed cable news viewers may recognize Olivia Troye, who now spends her days as a television commentator, rebuking President Donald Trump. Troye announced her congressional run in Virginia's 7th congressional district on April 14. She will face a crowded field that includes the state's former first lady, Dorothy McAuliffe.
Troye departed Trump's orbit five years ago and became a TV commentator. She first left the White House in 2020 amid the first Trump administration's coronavirus response and spoke out about her rationale on "The View," a daytime hotbed of Trump hostility.
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"Too many families are struggling to get by while Washington looks the other way," Troye says in an announcement video. "I won't because I've lived it." Troye grew up in a Texas border town and said she was the daughter of a truck driver and a Mexican immigrant.
