Kerry McQuisten accepted a Sr. Advisor position with Republicans Overseas (RO). She helped lead a core group in Oregon, along with CEO Solomon Yue of Salem, to work with former Trump campaign manager David Bossie and new Trump White House Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair to pitch a new tax policy ending double taxation of overseas Americans to President Trump, which he adopted. The president himself and several campaign surrogates like Tulsi Gabbard and Dr. Ben Carson cut vi

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

Kerry McQuisten appeared in one of the several surrogate videos included in the rollout of Republicans Overseas' (RO) get out the vote effort to benefit the Trump campaign. Earlier in the month, President Trump personally approved a statement pitched by RO CEO Solomon Yue regarding the ending of double taxation for overseas Americans. Within 24 hours, President Trump gave the greenlight, setting campaign messaging in motion. The RO effort went viral, bringing in an estimated

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