Christine O’Donnell Biography
Christine O’Donnell is an American Tea Party activist best known for her 2010 candidacy for the United States Senate seat vacated by Joseph Biden in Delaware.
How old is Christine O’Donnell? – Age
She is 53 years old as of 27 August 2022. She was born in 1969 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Her real name is Christine Therese O’Donnell.
Christine O’Donnell Family – Education
He is the fifth of Carole (Chillano) and Daniel O’Donnell’s six children. Her mother is of Italian ancestry, while her father is of Irish ancestry. O’Donnell has stated that her father had to work three jobs at times to make ends meet. In the 1960s, he performed a brief spell as Bozo the Clown in community theater and on local television. O’Donnell attended Moorestown High School and was a member of the theatre club and a student announcer.
She enrolled at Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU) in 1987, first majoring in theater but subsequently switching to English literature with a communications specialization. Afterward, O’Donnell informed The New York Times that she had three senior years of college left. In September 2010, O’Donnell graduated from Fairleigh Dickinson University with a bachelor’s degree in English literature.
Is Christine O’Donnell Married? – Husband
O’Donnell is not married.
Christine O’Donnell Delaware
O’Donnell entered the Delaware Republican primary for the U.S. Senate election in 2006. She claimed that she had classified information to support her claim that China was planning to take over the United States during a primary debate. She came in third with 17% of the vote, behind winner Jan C. Ting and Michael D. Protack, who came in second. She then ran as a write-in candidate in the general election against Ting and the incumbent Senator Tom Carper, and she won with 11,127 votes.
After defeating businessman Tim Smith with more than 60% of the GOP delegate vote at the state party convention on May 3, 2008, she became the Republican Party’s candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2008. Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin, former Delaware Governor Pierre DuPont, conservative writer and policy advocate David Horowitz, and Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour supported O’Donnell’s candidacy. Joe Biden, the state’s longest-serving senator who was also running for vice president on the Obama-Biden ticket, was her general election opponent. According to opinion polls, O’Donnell was two points behind Biden. By a margin of 35% to 35%, Biden defeated O’Donnell in the general election on November 4, 2008.
The O’Donnell campaign was $19,656.29 in debt at the end of the 2008 fiscal year. Ted Kaufman, Biden’s chief of staff, was appointed by Governor Ruth Ann Minner to serve out the first two years of Biden’s six-year Senate term following the 2008 election. Following the election, Biden resigned from his seat in the Senate to become Vice President of the United States. O’Donnell declared her intention to run for U.S. Senate again in 2010 in December 2008, despite the entry of Republican Congressman and former Governor Mike Castle. When Beau Biden, a Democrat, and Joe Biden’s son, said in January 2010 that he would not run, Castle became the favorite to win the seat.
Christine O’Donnell Religious
O’Donnell was raised as a Catholic, but her interest in her family faith waned during her adolescence as she studied numerous views and sought spiritual truth. As previously indicated, in an interview for Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher on October 29, 1999, O’Donnell revealed that she had “dabbled in witchcraft.”
Once a political liberal who supported abortion rights, O’Donnell claims she had an epiphany at the age of 21 after seeing horrific explanations and photographs of abortion procedures in medical publications. “There is just truth and not truth,” O’Donnell recognized at the time. “You’re either extremely nice or really evil.”
She abandoned her performing ambitions, began pondering about moral questions, and became an evangelical Christian, drawn by the movement’s promise of moral certainty. She chose chastity, began advocating sexual abstinence, and joined the College Republicans. O’Donnell claimed in 2010 that she was willing to attend both Catholic and Protestant services. She declared that she was a fervent and practicing Catholic in an interview with Jeff Lytle for Florida Daily NewsMakers on September 4, 2011.
Christine O’Donnell Political position
O’Donnell has stated that she does not support the regulation of private sexual conduct. O’Donnell stated that if she were to be elected to the Senate, her political actions would be guided more by the Constitution than by her own personal convictions. She explicitly denied her anti-masturbation stance from 1996, stating, “I was a pundit.” I was extremely energetic in my 20s and needed to share my convictions.”
O’Donnell supports government restrictions on abortion care and has declared her membership in the “values movement.” She doesn’t like abortion, even in cases of rape and incest, but if the woman was going to die otherwise, she would let her family choose which life to save. O’Donnell opposes research on human embryonic stem cells, human cloning, and monkey embryo cloning. O’Donnell voiced her moral concerns regarding stem cell research in 2007 on The O’Reilly Factor, stating that “American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains.” Therefore, they are already engaged in this experiment.
O’Donnell has promised that she won’t ever cast a ballot to increment charges. She has advocated for a tax code simplification, opposed congressional earmarks, and a balanced budget amendment.
According to O’Donnell, Democrats have restricted oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, preventing the United States from becoming energy independent. She has advocated for the utilization of Delaware’s agricultural products in gasoline and the construction of additional refineries. She opposes legislation for a cap and trade.
O’Donnell stated that if she were to be elected to the U.S. Senate, her top priority would be to cast a vote to repeal the 2010 legislation that created Obamacare. She signed the “Contract from America” of Tea Party activists, promising to replace Obamacare with a “free-market” health insurance system that is “competitive, open, and transparent.”
O’Donnell has advocated for stiffer punishments for businesses that hire illegal immigrants. She has upheld raising the age for getting Federal retirement aide benefits. O’Donnell shrugged and replied, “I wouldn’t not support him,” when asked in 2010 whether she would support Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell as the Republican leader of the Senate.