This former Green Beret is an election denier who has called those charged in the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol "political prisoners." He was one of just two congressional candidates to speak last year at a "Justice for J6" rally in Washington, DC, according to the Seattle Times. He wants Congress to investigate the FBI.
He is running for Congress in Washington against Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, a small business owner, and the race leans in his favor, according to Cook Political Report and Inside Elections.
Trump met Kent at Dover Air Force Base in 2019 when the remains of Kent's wife Shannon, a Navy cryptologist, were returned from Syria where she was killed by a suicide bomber while on a mission to fight ISIS.
The seat is currently held by Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, who lost a nonpartisan primary in August. She was one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump in the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol, and Trump cited her vote in his endorsement of Kent.