68 Facts About Candace Owens

Candace Amber Owens Farmer is an American conservative author, talk show host, political commentator, producer, and activist.

Candace Owens worked for the conservative advocacy group Turning Point USA between 2017 and 2019 as its communications director.

On several occasions, Candace Owens has claimed that the effects of white supremacy and white nationalism are exaggerated, especially when compared to other issues facing black Americans.

Candace Owens has expressed anti-lockdown views and anti-vaccination opinions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Candace Owens has been criticized for promoting conspiracy theories, mostly through her social media profiles and television and media appearances.

Candace Owens said her paternal grandfather Robert Owens, a Black American, was born in North Carolina.

Candace Owens is of Caribbean American heritage through her grandmother who is originally from Saint Thomas, US Virgin Islands.

In 2007, while a 17-year-old senior in high school, Candace Owens received three racist death threat voicemail messages, totaling two minutes, from a group of white male classmates.

Candace Owens's family sued the Stamford Board of Education in federal court, alleging that the city did not protect her rights, resulting in a $37,500 settlement in January 2008.

Candace Owens pursued an undergraduate degree in journalism at the University of Rhode Island.

Candace Owens dropped out after her junior year because of an issue with her student loan.

In 2012, Candace Owens took a job as an administrative assistant for a private equity firm in Manhattan, later moving up to become its vice president of administration.

In 2015, Candace Owens was CEO of Degree180, a marketing agency that offered consultation, production, and planning services.

The proposal was immediately controversial, drawing criticism that Candace Owens was de-anonymizing Internet users and violating their privacy.

On November 21,2017, at the MAGA Rally and Expo in Rockford, Illinois, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk announced that Candace Owens had been hired as the organization's director of urban engagement.

In May 2019, Candace Owens announced her departure as communications director for the organization.

Candace Owens has appeared on fringe conspiracy websites, such as InfoWars.

Owens hosted The Candace Owens Show on PragerU's YouTube channel.

Candace Owens left PragerU in 2020 to host Candace, a show on The Daily Wire.

Candace Owens did not reveal which specific office she would run for, or in which election cycle.

In February 2021, Candace Owens tweeted that she was considering a run for President in 2024.

In late 2018, Candace Owens launched a different Blexit foundation, which featured a social media campaign to encourage African Americans to abandon the Democratic Party and register as Republicans with the promise of freedom.

Candace Owens said she had no interest in politics whatsoever before 2015, but previously identified as liberal.

Candace Owens has since characterized Trump as the "savior" of Western civilization.

Candace Owens has argued that Trump has neither engaged in rhetoric that is harmful to African Americans, nor proposed policies that would harm African Americans.

Candace Owens said in October 2018 that she had never voted and had only recently become a registered Republican.

Candace Owens was influenced by the works of Ann Coulter, Milo Yiannopoulos, Ben Carson, and Thomas Sowell.

Candace Owens is known for her criticism of the Black Lives Matter movement and has described Black Lives Matter protesters as "a bunch of whiny toddlers, pretending to be oppressed for attention".

Candace Owens has argued that African Americans have a victim mentality, often referring to the Democratic Party as a "plantation".

Candace Owens has argued that the American Left likes "black people to be government-dependent" and that black people have been brainwashed to vote for Democrats.

Candace Owens has argued that police violence against black people is not about racism, and referred to police killings of black people as a trivial matter to African Americans.

Candace Owens has characterized abortion as a tool for the "extermination" of black babies.

In June 2019, Candace Owens said that African Americans had it better in the first 100 years after the abolition of slavery than they have since and that socialism was at fault.

In June 2020, Candace Owens claimed that George Soros paid people to protest the murder of George Floyd.

On October 3,2022, during Yeezy SZN 9 fashion show in Paris, Candace Owens posed for a photo with Kanye West wearing a matching shirt with the "WHITE LIVES MATTER" slogan.

Candace Owens further accused the Anti-Defamation League of instigating antisemitism following the organization's criticism of West and Kyrie Irving.

Candace Owens' comments were made before West praised Adolf Hitler in an Infowars interview.

Candace Owens has called abortion a tool for the "extermination of black babies".

In May 2018, Candace Owens suggested that "something bio-chemically happens" to women who do not marry or have children, and she linked to the Twitter handles of Sarah Silverman, Chelsea Handler, and Kathy Griffin, saying that they were "evidentiary support" of this theory.

In December 2022, Candace Owens argued that society would benefit by discriminating more against transgender and non-binary individuals.

Candace Owens opposes welfare programs, saying that they are a Democratic Party tool to keep black Americans dependent upon the government.

Candace Owens has claimed that global warming is not "real", while in 2021 promoted paid ads on Facebook, calling the US government "modern doomsayers" who have been wrongly predicting climate crises for decades.

Candace Owens said that Klacik is a "madame" who recruits strippers for a strip club owned by her husband.

Candace Owens said she found out about this after talking with a woman who claimed to have worked as a stripper at Klacik's strip club.

Klacik denied the allegations and repeatedly asked for Candace Owens to take down the video, which she refused to do.

Tibbetts's cousin said that Candace Owens had exploited Tibbetts's death for "political propaganda".

Candace Owens responded by describing Lucas's criticism as a "strange" attack on Trump supporters.

In October 2018, during the mail bombing attempts targeting prominent Democrats, Candace Owens took to Twitter to promote the conspiracy theory that the mailings were sent by leftists.

At the launch of the British offshoot Turning Point UK in December 2018, Candace Owens made comments about Adolf Hitler.

Candace Owens wanted everybody to be German, everybody to be speaking German.

Candace Owens said that "[Hitler] was a homicidal, psychopathic, maniac that killed his own people" and "[Hitler] was not a nationalist, [he] murdered his own people; a nationalist would not kill their own people".

Candace Owens said that her comments were about Hitler's crimes against Jews.

Lieu said that he did not know Candace Owens and was just going to let her own words characterize her, before playing the audio clip.

Candace Owens responded that Lieu had deliberately omitted an interviewer's question that provided critical context to her words, with the intent of misrepresenting them as an endorsement of Hitler, to smear her reputation.

Brenton Harrison Tarrant, the terrorist who committed the Christchurch mosque shootings, produced a manifesto prior to committing the shootings in which he wrote that Candace Owens had "influenced [him] above all".

Hours after the shootings, Candace Owens posted a tweet in reaction to allegations that she inspired the mass murder, saying that she never created any content espousing her views on the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution or Islam.

Candace Owens later made formal statements rejecting any connection to the terrorist.

In 2021, Candace Owens attracted media attention when she stated that the United States should "invade Australia", saying that Australia had turned into a tyrannical Nazi-style "police state" due to its public health precautions against COVID-19, even though Australia's COVID-19 measures had overwhelming support among the Australian public.

Candace Owens said that the comments were made "in jest" and that they had been misinterpreted by the media.

Candace Owens has been involved in a high-profile feud with rapper Cardi B since August 2020.

The feud began when Candace Owens retweeted a clip of herself on The Ben Shapiro Show in which she criticized Cardi B's interview with then presidential candidate Joe Biden.

The feud resurfaced in March 2021 when Candace Owens appeared on Fox News to critique Cardi B's performance of "WAP" at the Grammy Awards.

Cardi B threatened to countersue for defamation, due to Candace Owens claiming the accusations were false.

Candace Owens has promoted Russian propaganda, including the false claim that Russia created Ukraine.

Candace Owens's views have been promoted by the Russian embassy, after she tweeted that "Russian lives matter" while disparaging the Black Lives Matter movement.

In March 2022, Candace Owens claimed that Ukraine "wasn't a thing until 1989" and that it is "stupid" to suggest that Russian president Vladimir Putin is carrying out a genocide in Ukraine.

In early 2019, three weeks after they met, Candace Owens became engaged to George Farmer, an Englishman and former chairman of Turning Point UK.

Candace Owens gave birth to their second child, a daughter, in July 2022.