Married Republican Van Taylor rejected his candidacy for re-election on Wednesday after apologizing for a nine-month affair with the so-calledISIS the bride.
“I am announcing today that I will not continue my campaign for re-election in Congress,” Taylor emailed supporters. according to The Dallas Morning News. “About a year ago, I made a terrible mistake that caused deep pain and pain among those I love the most in this world. I had an affair, it was wrong and it was the biggest failure of my life.
Taylor was targeted for a run-off against former Colin County Judge Keith Self when he failed to reach the 50 percent threshold in Texas on Tuesday GOP primary after his nine-month affair with Tanya Joya was revealed by the conservative media.
Married Republican Van Taylor rejects his re-election on Wednesday after apologizing for having a nine-month affair with the so-called “ISIS bride”
Tanya Joya was born in London to a Muslim family in Bangladesh and became radicalized at the age of 17 after the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Joya, born in London to a Muslim family in Bangladesh, became radicalized at the age of 17 after the September 11 terrorist attacks.
In 2004, she married a newly converted American Muslim named John Georgelas, a Yahya al-Bahrumi.
Georges took her and their three children to Syria against her will in 2013.
She says he was “the highest-ranking American” in Islamic State.
Three weeks later, she reported it to US authorities and fled Syria to the United States.
She has since lived in Plano, Texas – her ex-husband’s home state – and has worked to reprogram those who have been radicalized.
This work, according to Morning News, is the way it was presented to Taylor.
“We were very close,” she told Morning News on Monday night.
Their affair lasted from October 2020 to June 2021.
Representative Van Taylor (right) and his wife Anne (left) on their wedding day. The Republican congressman publicly apologized to his wife and three daughters in a statement to supporters on Wednesday as he withdrew from the race
Tanya Joya said she met with a GOP congressman through work to rehabilitate jihadists in Plano, Texas
Tanya Joya’s ex-husband John Georges, who was from Texas but traveled to Syria with his wife and three children to fight for Islamic State. Joya went with him to Syria in 2013, but escaped
A 2018 tweet from spokesman Van Taylor says his wife, Anne, sent him a letter every day he served in Iraq.
Tanya Joya moves to Plano, Texas after fleeing Syria and her ex-husband, who joined ISIS
Joya turned to Susan Harp, who was running against Taylor and Self in the Republican primary, hoping the opponent would tell Taylor in private that she knew about the affair and make him drop out of the race and resign from Congress. .
The Dallas Morning News reported that Joya was annoyed to see the face of her ex-lover on billboards around town.
All I wanted was for Susan Harp to just say, “Hey, I know your little scandal with Tanya Joya. Do you want to resign before we embarrass you? ”Joya told the newspaper. “But it didn’t happen.”
Instead, Harp sent a supporter to interview Joya, and the story came out the National File website on Sunday, and Breitbart escapes “exclusively” by him on Monday – the day before the election.
Both stories say Taylor claims to have paid Joey $ 5,000 in secret money.
Harp called the affair “shocking … disturbing and indecent for an incumbent US official” on election day, adding that it would be “dangerous to have a compromised and corrupt representation in Washington.”
Taylor, the incumbent president, still received 48.7% of the vote, with 95% of the polls on Wednesday.
Self received 26.5 percent and Harp received 20.8 percent.
However, he was leading in the early voting, taking 51.8% of the vote in a five-party race – suggesting that the affair, which came out just before election day, did some damage.
Taylor also did not receive approval from former President Donald Trump, as he was one of four Republicans in Texas who voted in favor of certifying the 2020 presidential election for President Joe Biden.
“I want to apologize for the pain I caused by my indiscretion, especially to my wife Ann and our three daughters,” Taylor said in a note to supporters. Anne and I have been working for months to correct the scars left by my actions.
“I am unworthy, but I am eternally grateful for her love and forgiveness,” the congressman added.
“I want to apologize for the pain I caused by my indiscretion, especially to my wife Ann and our three daughters,” Taylor said Wednesday.
Like the congressman, Tanya Joya is also a mother of three. She told The Dallas Morning News that she hoped a political rival would persuade her ex-lover to drop out of the race and resign from Congress.