As Kerry McQuisten watched Donald Trump take the oath of office as America’s 47th president on Monday, Jan. 20, in Washington, D.C., she felt that she was completing an exciting journey that started more than two years ago. McQuisten, who grew up in Baker County, attended the event on Nov. 15, 2022, when Trump, at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, announced he would run in the 2024 election. “We were there at the beginning,” McQuisten, a former Baker City mayor and 2022 Ore

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Kerry McQuisten sat in the ballroom at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, and as Trump walked through the room she sensed the historic nature of what she was watching. A few minutes later, on the evening of Nov. 15, the former president announced that he would seek a second four-year term in the 2024 election. McQuisten, Baker City mayor and a 2022 Oregon gubernatorial candidate, described it as a “once-in-a-lifetime experience.” “We were watching an historic eve