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SALT LAKE CITY — The National Republican Congressional Committee announced Thursday that Mia Love has reached "Young Gun" status within the party.
The status is the top tier of the committee's "Young Gun" recruitment program, which helps the party find strong candidates for Congressional races.
Love has "established a clear path to victory," according to the committee.
"Mia Love has met a series of rigorous goals that will put her in position to win on Election Day," NRCC chairman Pete Sessions, R-Texas, said in a statement. "(Love) is leading the pack as Republicans continue to send a loud and clear message that we will hold Democrats accountable for their unpopular partisan agenda."
Love is running in Utah's fourth Congressional district and will face Democratic Rep. Jim Matheson in the general election.
Bachmann becomes Swiss citizen
Former GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann was recently granted Swiss ciizenship.
Bachmann has been eligible for Swiss citizenship since 1978, when she married her husband, who is of Swiss descent.
The Minnesota Congresswoman's spokeswoman, Becky Rogness, told Minnesota Public Radio that Bachmann's children wanted to become dual citizens, so the family decided to undergo the process together, the Associated Press reports.
Bachmann downplayed the decision, saying in a statement that she technically has been a dual citizen since she married, and just recently updated her documents to reflect that.
The move caused a stir in Washington due to what some say was a lack of disclosure on Bachmann's part during her presidential campaign.
"It wasn't necessary to disclose, because she is an American citizen and always has been," Rogness told Politico.
Update:
Bachmann has renounced her Swiss citizenship.
"I took this action because I want to make it perfectly clear: I was born in America and I am a proud American citizen," she said in a statement.
Biden appears on Jeopardy!Vice President Joe Biden appeared Wednesday night on the game show Jeopardy!, delivering one of the categories during a special teen tournament.
In a pre-taped segment, Biden, a car enthusiast, delivered a clue for the "Cars in America category.
"As a car nut and the son of a man who managed an automobile dealership, I'm here to talk about the automobile industry's role in our country's past and present," Biden asked in the taped segment. "So here's 'Cars in America.'"
Biden was criticized on Fox News Channel's Fox and Friends for his appearance, with the show's hosts saying the vice president had used the category to push a pro-auto bailout agenda.
Obama loses West Virginia delegates to prisoner
A Texas inmate gave Pres. Obama a run for his money Tuesday in the West Virginia primary.
Keith Russell Judd, a self-described Harvard-educated musician and activist, is an inmate at the Texarkana Federal Correctional Institute in northeast Texas. Judd is serving 17 years for making threats, but that did not stop West Virginian Democrats from voting for the man, giving him 41 percent of the vote.
Many of the 41 percent seemed simply to be voting for anyone but Obama.
"I voted against Obama," Ronnie Brown, who called himself a conservative Democrat, told the Associated Press. "I don't like him. He didn't carry the state before and I'm not going to let him carry it again."
Because Judd won more than 15 percent of the vote, he qualifies for a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. Officials believe Judd may have failed to file the required paperwork, though.
