Former Pence staffer Olivia Troye launches bid for House seat in Virginia 

Olivia Troye, who served as a top aide to former Vice President Pence and is a prominent critic of President Trump, announced on Tuesday that she’s launching a bid for the newly redrawn 7th Congressional District in Virginia.  

“Virginia deserves someone who’s been through the fire, who isn’t afraid to fight – for our freedom, for our values, for our future,” she said in her nearly two-minute ad. “Trump doesn’t scare me. I took him on when it mattered the most, and I’m ready to do it again.” 

“It’s time to send some real courage to Congress,” she added.  

Troye, who served on the Trump White House’s COVID-19 task force and spent time as a homeland security and counterterrorism advisor for Pence, gained national attention in 2020 when she criticized the president’s handling of the pandemic and said she would be voting for former Vice President Harris in the 2024 election. 

“It’s very hard when you’re trying to actually base things on facts and science and on the data to have a president that wasn’t focused on that,” Troye told NBC News in an interview in........

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