Jason Emert isn’t your typical candidate for Congress.
Emert, 33, is a business owner and attorney, and also serves as the chairman of the Young Republicans National Federation. It’s at the YRNF that Emert leads more than 20,000 millennial Republicans in working across the country to support a conservative agenda. He now wants to take that same leadership to Congress.
His campaign for Tennessee’s 2nd Congressional District is already showing promise. The campaign is hitting high fundraising levels and is seeing a surge of local support as more people hear about the national political figure who lives in their own town.
“I know these people, and I know their concerns — my family’s lived in East Tennessee for eight generations,” Emert said. “I know I can take our values to make Washington work for us again. After watching this Republican Congress struggle to get anything substantive done, I am not going to sit on the sidelines any longer. I am ready to finally give the people of East Tennessee a voice.”
He believes that his local business experience, combined with his national and international political work, puts him in a unique position to represent the people of Tennessee in Congress.
“I’m the opposite of a career politician – literally,” Emert told Red Alert Politics. “I’ve never held elected office. I’m a businessman, and my experiences have taken me all over the globe to work alongside world leaders on a variety of complex issues. In the business world, you can’t just kick the can down the road as politicians do time and time again. You have to act decisively. That’s what I’ve done my whole life and that’s what I’ll do in Congress to make Washington work for us again.”
Emert continued, “As YRNF chairman, I am working with President Trump’s team to promote and enact his agenda around the nation. As International Young Democrat Union chairman it prepared me as a global leader that championed American and Western democratic values in the global conservative moment. America is the greatest force for good in world history and as a Congressman, I’ll use my experience to ensure our continued place as the world leader.”
Emert argues that his extensive political background gives him experience without a Washington insider’s mentality.
“I’m attacking this from a true outsider’s perspective. So much of the problem with today’s political climate is that our capital is controlled by career politicians and political opportunists who are looking to run for something because they are more beholden to special interests, insiders and lobbyists than the people who elected them in the first place.”
In addition to his local business and work with the International Young Democrat Union, Emert has been named to the Maverick PAC Future 40 alongside three current congressmen, recognized as a leader in foreign policy by the Foreign Policy Initiative, honored as the national Young Republican Man of the Year, and is a graduate of Leadership Blount.
“Something has to change. Our country is at a crossroads. The question really is, ‘Do we want America to be the great nation it was founded to be or we will let it be sold out to special interests?’ I want the America I know and love to be preserved for the generations after me.”
When asked whether or not he had the stomach for the Washington swamp, Emert replied candidly: “I’ve been a fighter all of my life.”
