Leora Levy, the Donald Trump-backed Republican is a first-time candidate who got the nod for the Senate seat in the Connecticut primaries. Come November, she’ll face Richard Blumenthal of the Democratic Party. 

The 65-year-old member of the Republican National Committee moved from Cuba with her family in 1960. Her grandfather was the president of the Vertientes-Camaguey Sugar Company in Havana and Levy graduated from Brown University in 1978, after which she worked in the financial industry, including a stint as a commodities trader at Philbro Salomon. 

Her website informs that Levy escaped Cuba during Castro’s regime and knows firsthand “what it means when Communism conquers your country.” Trump had earlier nominated her to be the Ambassador to Chile and the Republican is a champion of the pro-life movement. “A mother of three adult children Leora recognizes that motherhood has been her greatest accomplishment in life”, her page reads. 

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Ironically, the politician was pro-abortion in 2012 and anti-Trump in 2016, but has altered both her positions since then, and now stands firmly opposed to all forms of abortion except in pregnancies caused by rapes, or when the person carrying the child has a health risk.

Further, Levy believes in the right to carry arms and also supports freedom of choice when it comes to wearing masks or getting vaccines. She also holds up the bond between the US and Israel and her site says that Levy leads the fight for freedom in the US, because she’s seen what happens when one loses it.  

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Levy said “I have had a passion to serve and to make sure the United States of America never becomes a communist country”, adding, “The issues that are driving this election are the economy, the invasion at the border, the rise in crime, the indoctrination of our children with critical race theory”, as per CT Mirror.