86 Facts About Candace Owens

Candace Amber Owens Farmer is an American political commentator.

Candace Owens served as communications director for the conservative advocacy group Turning Point USA from 2017 and 2019.

In 2018, Candace Owens co-founded Blexit along with former Tucson police officer Brandon Tatum.

Candace Owens was dismissed in March 2024 following a series of comments widely regarded as antisemitic and months of tensions with co-host Ben Shapiro and other Daily Wire staff.

Candace Owens has expressed skepticism about the extent of white supremacy's impact on society and has voiced opposition to both COVID-19 lockdowns and COVID-19 vaccines.

Candace Amber Owens was born in White Plains, New York, in 1989, and grew up in Stamford, Connecticut.

Candace Owens was raised mostly by her mother and grandparents from around the age of 11 or 12, after her parents divorced.

Candace Owens's paternal grandfather was Robert Owens, a black American who was born in North Carolina.

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

Candace Owens is a graduate of Stamford High School in Connecticut.

In 2007, while a 17-year-old senior at Stamford High School, Candace Owens received three racist death threat voicemail messages, totaling two minutes, from a group of white male classmates which included the son of then-mayor and future Democratic governor Dannel Malloy.

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 that included a blog on a variety of topics written by Candace Owens and other commentators.

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.

In May 2019, Owens hosted The Candace Owens Show on PragerU's YouTube channel.

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.

Jeremy Boreing announced Candace Owens would be leaving The Daily Wire in March 2024, a move believed to be related to a string of comments considered to be antisemitic culminating in Candace Owens liking a tweet referencing blood libel.

In late 2018, Candace Owens launched a different BLEXIT foundation, which featured a social media campaign to encourage ethnic minorities, including African Americans and Latinos, to leave the Democratic Party and register as Republicans.

In July 2021, Candace Owens announced the launch of a device named the Freedom Phone, which sold for $500, was marketed toward Trump supporters and which she claimed was "not controlled by Apple or Google".

In December 2021, Candace Owens promoted the use of colloidal silver as a daily supplement, claiming to take "a teaspoon a day".

Candace Owens said she had been in contact with him by phone since his second conviction.

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

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 characterized abortion as a tool for the extermination of black babies.

On several occasions, Candace Owens has claimed that the effects of white supremacy and white nationalism are exaggerated and would not reach her own personal top 100 list of modern issues facing black America, especially when compared to other issues facing black Americans, such as black-on-black crime and illiteracy rates.

In June 2019, Candace Owens said that African Americans had it better in the first 100 years after the abolition of slavery in the United States 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.

Candace Owens is critical of feminism and embraces the "trad wife" phenomenon of traditional gender roles.

Candace Owens opposes abortion, which she has called 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 May 2022, Candace Owens falsely claimed on Twitter that the gunman involved in the Robb Elementary School shooting could be transgender and said that he was "cross-dressing".

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 has described science as a "pagan faith" and expressed interest in pseudoscientific conspiracy theories such as flat Earth.

In July 2018, Candace Owens claimed that global warming is not real, calling it a lie used to "extract dollars from Americans".

Candace Owens has expressed a critical stance on welfare programs, arguing that they can create dependency and discourage self-reliance among recipients.

Candace Owens believes that welfare reform is necessary to promote individual responsibility and empower individuals to break free from government assistance.

Candace Owens has said that welfare is a Democratic Party tool to keep black Americans dependent upon the government.

At the launch of Turning Point's 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.

On October 3,2022, during Adidas 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's comments were made before West praised Adolf Hitler in an InfoWars interview.

Candace Owens claimed that Freud studied Kabbalah and promoted pedophilia through psychoanalysis.

In July 2024, Candace Owens suggested that Ashkenazi Jews trace their origin to Khazars and are not related to "biblical Jews".

Candace Owens suggested that "their religious teachings tell them to infiltrate everywhere" and "[their] elites are disgusting, despicable people".

Candace Owens implied that the war in Ukraine is linked to the Khazars' desire to seek revenge on Russia and Iran.

Candace Owens was disinvited from a Trump campaign fundraiser in the summer of 2024 following criticism from Jewish groups.

In September 2024, Candace Owens was temporarily suspended from YouTube for violating YouTube's hate speech policies.

Candace Owens is a critic of Israel and increasingly voiced her negative views of the country during the Gaza war.

In 2025, Candace Owens expressed no regrets with her previous comments about Israel and was disappointed with President Trump's announcement of building a resort on the ruins of Gaza.

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.

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

In 2022, after Russia's full invasion of Ukraine, Candace Owens promoted a quote by Russian President Vladimir Putin which included the false assertion that the USSR created the modern country of Ukraine.

Candace Owens's views have received support and amplification from the Embassy of Russia, Washington, DC, particularly following her tweet stating "Russian lives matter".

In March 2022, Candace Owens faced criticism from historian Anne Applebaum for claiming that Ukraine "wasn't a thing until 1989" and dismissing the notion of a Russian-led genocide in the country, prompting Applebaum to label Candace Owens as ignorant of history.

In December 2022, Candace Owens faced backlash and fact-checking on social media after making unfounded claims about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's wife Olena Zelenska, with Twitter users debunking her allegations and highlighting the lack of evidence.

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.

In October 2020, Candace Owens sued Lead Stories and USA Today after they fact-checked Facebook posts she had made downplaying the COVID-19 pandemic, alleging their articles had led to her being unable to obtain advertising revenue from her Facebook page and the termination of a deal with Facebook to advertise her book Blackout.

Candace Owens created a website to solicit donations for the lawsuit.

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.

Candace Owens has been criticized for promoting conspiracy theories, including claims that the Moon landings were faked, mostly through her social media profiles and television and media appearances.

In March 2024, Candace Owens endorsed the conspiracy theory that Brigitte Macron, wife of French President Emmanuel Macron, was secretly transgender.

Candace Owens promoted the book by investigative journalist Xavier Poussard, Devenir Brigitte, which became a bestseller on Amazon.

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's tweet was criticized as "glib" when it was reported that she actually had posted tweets about the Second Amendment and Islam.

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

In late August 2024, Candace Owens announced that plans for a speaking tour of five Australian cities and the New Zealand city of Auckland in November 2024.

Candace Owens met her British husband, George Farmer, the son of Lord Farmer, in 2018 at the launch event for Turning Point UK, a conservative student organization.

Since her marriage, Candace Owens is known as The Hon.

Candace Owens gave birth to a boy in January 2021, a daughter in July 2022 and another boy in late 2023.