Kat Cammack

Kathryn Christine Cammack (born February 16, 1988) is an American politician and political advisor serving as the U.S. representative for Florida's 3rd congressional district.

In 2006, Cammack graduated from Douglas County High School in Castle Rock, Colorado.

She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in international relations from the Metropolitan State University of Denver and a Master of Science in national defense and strategic studies from the Naval War College.

She has said she lived with her mother in an extended-stay motel for four months.

Cammack once claimed that her family was evicted from their cattle ranch "due to an Obama-era housing program"; in fact, the ranch was put up for sale because the family could not afford the mortgage payments.

In 2009, she interned with U.S. Representative Mike Coffman.

She later joined Ted Yoho's congressional campaign.

Cammack has said that her family's experience with the federal Home Affordable Modification Program in 2011 inspired her interest in politics.

For the 118th Congress:

During a speech on the House floor after the sixth failed attempt to elect Kevin McCarthy as House speaker on January 4, 2023, Cammack claimed without evidence that Democrats were drinking alcohol and eating popcorn during the vote.

She said, "diversity of thought is a good thing. But they want us divided. They want us to fight each other. That much has been made clear by the popcorn and blankets and alcohol that is comin' over there".

She reiterated the claim the next day on Fox News.

Cammack was one of 139 representatives who voted on January 7, 2021, to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

On the House floor, she said the January 6 attacks "furthermore resolved" her objection to the certification process and that, as representatives of the people, members of Congress must stand for a free and fair election.

Numerous inquiries have found no evidence that the election was unfree or unfair to an extent that changed its outcome.

Cammack is co-chair of the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus.

She believes states should determine their abortion laws, and abortion should be allowed only in extreme cases in the first trimester.

In 2022, she cosponsored a bill to ban abortions nationwide past 15 weeks.

During her campaign, she released an advertisement in which she said that, when her mother was pregnant with her, she was advised by doctors to have an abortion, but chose not to.

After Yoho was elected, Cammack served as his deputy chief of staff from 2013 to 2019.

In 2019, she left Yoho's office in Washington, D.C., and returned to Florida.

Cammack announced her candidacy for Yoho's seat in December 2019.

Cammack also operates an independent political consulting firm.

After winning the primary, she was heavily favored to win the general election.

A member of the Republican Party, Cammack previously served as deputy chief of staff to her predecessor, Representative Ted Yoho, who retired in 2020.

Cammack was born in Denver, Colorado, and raised on a 55-acre cattle ranch.

When Cammack was a teenager, her mother spent time in jail for driving under the influence.

Yoho did not seek reelection in 2020, fulfilling his pledge to serve only four terms.

In September 2020, Donald Trump endorsed her.

After her primary win, Cammack established a leadership PAC.

Cammack ran for chair of the Republican Study Committee but later withdrew her bid for the position and endorsed Kevin Hern.

She nominated Kevin McCarthy in the 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election.

Cammack defeated Democratic nominee Adam Christensen.

She assumed office on January 3, 2021.

Cammack ran for reelection.

In the primary, she received 84.8% of the vote to her opponent Justin Waters's 15.2%.

A third candidate, Manuel Asensio, dropped out before Election Day.

Cammack won the general election with 62.5% of the vote to Democratic nominee Danielle Hawk's 36.3% and NPA Linda Brooks's 1.2%.

In March 2020, Cammack signed the U.S. Term Limits pledge.

She said that a "limit on the time an individual can serve brings new ideas to Capitol Hill."