“I was nervous, okay?” Jaime West told Piers Morgan this week.
Jaime West, a Democratic candidate for a seat on Indiana’s Fayette County Council who went viral for her remarks during a televised candidate forum this month, has an explanation: She had been drinking beforehand.
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“I had a beer, mm-hmm … maybe a couple,” West told conservative British television host Piers Morgan on his show Monday. “I was nervous, okay?”
Pressed by Morgan, West admitted that she had actually consumed three beers before the forum but said she was “not that intoxicated.”
“I do know what I’m talking about,” she said.
In the interview that went viral, West said that she would fire all Republicans if she could, accused those who supported President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement of being racist and dumb, and ended the show with a vaguely threatening message: “We have guns, too,” she said, presumably referring to Democrats.
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West did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday. In 2024, Trump won deeply red Fayette County by more than 55 percentage points.
On Monday, West told Morgan there was nothing she regretted saying at the candidate forum, even if she had been drinking.
“I say it all the time: I’m not friends with [Republicans]. I don’t like them,” she said. “They voted for all of this that’s happening and to our country. We have a constitutional crisis. We have an illegal war going on.”
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