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Retired South Carolina Army vet whose geologist son vanished without a trace running for Congress
David Robinson upended his life after terrorists attacked America on Sept. 11, 2001, selling his trucking business to join the Army, where he served two tours in Afghanistan before suffering injuries in an IED blast.
“I joined the military when duty called to fight for our country, defend our democracy, defend our way of life,” he told Fox News Digital.
Decades later, his life changed again when his geologist son vanished without a trace from a well site in Arizona. Now he’s running for Congress with a focus on missing persons across the country.
He served as a combat engineer until he retired from the Army and moved on to open a new business in his hometown of Columbia, South Carolina, he said. But his son’s disappearance sent him to another desert, this one on the other side of the country, in search of answers.
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Missing geologist Daniel Robinson, left, and his father, David Robinson II, are shown in this undated photo provided by the family. (David Robinson II)
“I’m sitting right here in this very seat, and I see that phone call from Arizona. My daughter called me, and I ended up in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona,” he told Fox News Digital.
“My journey from there came to a point of running [for Congress], when you get sick and tired,” he said.
He wasn’t making progress in the search for his son, he said, but he was meeting more and more families of missing Americans.
Daniel Robinson is shown in this undated photo provided by his father. (David Robinson II)
“I had families out there with missing loved ones of their own,” he said. “You learn a lot. … I went to meetings with the telecommunications [companies], talking to the senators, to you name it, law enforcement agencies. And I learned the ins and outs of things that are not being correct, the policies and the laws that are in place that actually hurt efforts to find missing Americans.”
One problem with the way cases are investigated is how phone records are approached, he said. Telecommunications companies usually ask to see a warrant before providing information such as cellphone pings, he said.
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David Robinson, right, is shown with Candice Cooley, whose son, Dylan Rounds, vanished from his own Utah farm and was later found to have been killed by a squatter next door. They are part of a community of parents of young Americans who went missing. (Michael Ruiz/Fox News Digital)
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“Sometimes when that happens, it’s too late,” he said. “The other problem is law enforcement cannot do it unless it’s a criminal case, or they fear that a person is in severe danger, or something’s out of order.”
In cases like his son’s, although the circumstances remain a mystery, there wasn’t a probable cause right away, he said. His wrecked Jeep wasn’t discovered until almost a month after he went missing. But his son’s phone account was under his daughter’s name, and she paid the bill.
“That’s problematic for a family,” he said.
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He would propose legislation that makes data on an account available to the person paying the bill immediately, he said. Or at least to law enforcement upon the account owner’s request – with exceptions built in for domestic violence cases.
David Robinson, center, takes part in a panel discussion with the parents of Gabby Petito and Dylan Rounds, two other young Americans who went missing under suspicious circumstances. (Michael Ruiz/Fox News Digital)
Data retention is another issue. If police don’t get a warrant in time, crucial information might be lost, he said.
There are other, traditional issues in his campaign platform as well, ranging from education in his district to the cost of prescription drugs, abortion and climate change.
Daniel Robinson, a geologist working for an energy company in Arizona, vanished from a remote job site in June 2021.
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These images show Daniel Robinson’s crashed 2017 Jeep Renegade and Daniel Robinson in an undated photo. (Buckeye Police Department)
Buckeye police last year published more than 120 pages of investigators’ records in the case, which remains unsolved.
“There was no indication of foul play,” a detective wrote in a supplemental report, but there was also “no indication that Daniel had packed and planned a trip.”
On July 19, 2021, a rancher located Robinson’s 2017 Jeep Renegade battered and rolled onto its passenger side in a ravine. The vehicle had front-end impact damage, a broken driver’s side window and a missing piece of its roof. It was still in drive. There was no blood inside.
Police found clothes, Robinson’s phone and work computer inside. His wallet had no cash inside. But there was no sign of the missing geologist.
Daniel Robinson is shown in this undated photo provided by his father. (David Robinson II)
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Robinson faces an uphill battle, however. He is running as a Democrat in a district that has consistently elected a Republican to Congress since 1965.
The seat is currently held by Rep. Joe Wilson, a fellow Army veteran who first won the office in 2001.
Both men are running in their respective parties’ primary elections, scheduled for June 11.
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GOP rep speaks out after being forced to evacuate offices over threats from pro-abortion activists
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Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., is speaking out about the death threats she’s received from pro-abortion activists after publicly sharing her experience with a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy — an ordeal that ultimately led to the evacuation of her offices.
Cammack told “Fox & Friends First” on Friday that she was targeted by pro-abortion activists after sharing her life-threatening ectopic pregnancy story with The Wall Street Journal.
Last May, the Florida congresswoman found herself in a frightening position when her doctors were hesitant to treat her possibly fatal pregnancy complication due to the state’s near-total abortion ban.
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“It took about 10 days to discover exactly what was going on. Doctors originally thought that I was just miscarrying, and then they discovered a very rare ectopic — actually one of the rarest and most dangerous types of ectopic pregnancies you can have,” she said.
Cammack detailed the death threats she received after sharing her experience with an ectopic pregnancy on “Fox & Friends First” on Friday.
Cammack noted that while Florida’s abortion laws have exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother, her doctors were still hesitant to provide her with life-saving care because they were scared they would face losing their license or even being sent to prison.
“I literally was lying on the table reading them the law, and it dawned on me as I was sitting there with my husband — this is what women are experiencing because of the fearmongering around women’s healthcare, and it has to stop,” she asserted, adding, “The left absolutely played a role in making sure that doctors and women were scared to seek out the help that they needed.”
Following the publication of her story in The Wall Street Journal on Sunday, Cammack began receiving death threats from pro-abortion activists, leading to the evacuation of her offices.
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One of the threats she received read: “We would be better off if you hadn’t survived. The only good Republican is a dead Republican.”
Cammack lamented the “fearmongering” that she felt was responsible for women being scared to seek out the life-saving help that they need. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Cammack said that she’s received “thousands of threatening phone calls” and more than three dozen “actionable, credible” death threats since sharing her story.
“Things that are so horrible, like ‘I’m going to come cut out your unborn child and roast it over a fire.’ Things that I can’t say on air,” the congresswoman recalled.
“What is really, really scary is the vitriol and the fact that people don’t even want to look into the details or take accountability for their actions,” she said.
According to Cammack, the most important lesson she’s taken away from her traumatic experience is that there’s not only a “literacy crisis” unfolding in the country, but also a basic lack of understanding of “what healthcare for women is,” adding that “ectopic pregnancies are not abortions.”
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FIRST ON FOX – Republican businessman and entrepreneur Nate Morris, the newly announced Senate candidate in the 2026 Kentucky race to succeed retiring former longtime GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell, will team up with a top ally of President Donald Trump.
Morris, who is showcasing his political outsider credentials and his support for Trump’s MAGA movement, will be joined at a campaign event just south of Louisville, Kentucky, on Monday morning by conservative leader Charlie Kirk.
The news was first shared with Fox News on Friday.
Kirk, a MAGA world rock star and ally of Trump and the president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., leads the influential Turning Point USA youth organization.
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Charlie Kirk addresses the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 15, 2024. (Reuters/Mike Segar)
It’s likely that Kirk, who has praised Morris, will endorse him when the two team up on the campaign trail.
Morris joins Rep. Andy Barr and former Kentucky Attorney General and 2023 GOP gubernatorial nominee Daniel Cameron in the race for the Republican Senate nomination in the red-leaning state.
The GOP nomination, which will be decided in next spring’s Kentucky primary, will likely turn into a referendum on McConnell and a battle for Trump’s support.
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A campaign release announcing Morris’ candidacy described him as “a staunch ally of President Trump” who would “be a warrior for the America First agenda” in the Senate.
And Morris declared his candidacy during an interview on “Triggered,” a popular podcast hosted by Donald Trump Jr., who has praised him.
He’s also a personal friend of Vice President JD Vance.
Morris has been a leading voice in Kentucky this year in his criticism of McConnell, who has long been a top GOP Trump antagonist.
He pilloried McConnell, who stepped down from his Senate GOP leadership position, for the senator’s votes against top Trump Cabinet nominees. And he blasted Barr and Cameron – who was once seen as a McConnell protege – for not aggressively criticizing the senator for his votes.
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McConnell announced on his 83rd birthday in February that he wouldn’t seek re-election next year. McConnell has held the seat since 1985 and is the longest-serving senator in Kentucky history.
Morris said the GOP Senate primary will be “a referendum on Mitch McConnell’s record, it’s a referendum on Mitch McConnell’s legacy.”
And he aimed to tie Barr and Cameron to the senator, claiming that “you have two McConnellites who owe everything to Mitch McConnell versus the outside business guy that’s running as the MAGA candidate. I think that contrast is gonna be very, very striking to Kentuckians all over the state because they’ve had enough of Mitch.”
Republican Rep. Andy Barr, seen during a Fox News Digital interview on Capitol Hill in 2023, is running for the Senate in the race to succeed Mitch McConnell. (Fox News Digital )
But Barr’s campaign quickly returned fire, arguing that “Nate Morris is pretending to be MAGA now, but he can’t run from all the liberal trash in his past.”
And Barr took to social media to highlight that “I’m the ONLY candidate in this race who has a RECORD of supporting President .@realDonaldTrump and advancing the MAGA agenda. President Trump and I will continue to Make America Great Again when I’m in the U.S. Senate.”
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Cameron, in a social media post, also criticized Morris, charging his new rival is “a globalist who dons a MAGA hat and pretends to be ‘America First’ now that we are on the rise.”
Former Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, seen during his 2023 Republican campaign for governor, is running for the Senate. (Fox News/Brandon Gillespie)
Morris, in announcing his bid, showcased his family’s blue-collar roots.
According to a bio released by his campaign, he’s a ninth-generation Kentuckian with family ties to Appalachia, was raised in a union household by a single mother, and attended public schools, his campaign bio said.
The campaign said 19 of Morris’ relatives worked at a local auto plant, where his grandfather served as the union leader.
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While Morris can’t compete with Cameron and Barr when it comes to name recognition in Kentucky, he’ll be able to launch ads highlighting his bio using the wealth he earned as an entrepreneur.
Morris founded Rubicon on a $10,000 line of credit and turned it into one of the country’s largest waste and recycling companies.
In a campaign launch video, Morris said: “I know a little bit about garbage. And Mitch McConnell? He’s trashed Trump and for over 40 years, he’s been dumping on us.”
“Let’s dump career politicians and take out the trash in Washington,” he added.
Sen. Mitch McConnell, the former longtime GOP Senate leader, is retiring after his term is over at the end of next year. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Morris currently serves as chairman and CEO of Morris Industries, which he founded in 2010.
“When I came into the world, my mother was on food stamps. We have been fighting and scrapping for everything we have like most Kentuckians,” Morris said.
“I have been able to live the American dream because of how great this country is.”
The Morris campaign is being led by veterans of the 2024 Trump-Vance campaign, including veteran pollster Tony Fabrizio, strategists Andy Surabian, Chris Grant and data consultant Tim Saler.
An outside group supporting the Morris campaign is being overseen by Trump-Vance 2024 veterans Arthur Schwartz, Luke Thompson and Cliff Sims.
With two-term Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear and Lt. Gov. Jacqueline Coleman both passing on a Senate run, state House minority floor leader Pamela Stevenson is making a bid.
But it’s been over three decades since a Democrat won a Senate race in Kentucky.
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A North Carolina community is mourning the loss of a firefighter who died while snorkeling on vacation in Turks and Caicos with his family.
Jaywon Lyons died earlier this month on a snorkeling excursion on the island shortly after taking a photo, his girlfriend, Sonya Moore, told The Greenville Daily Reflector.
“I rushed over and I literally couldn’t even stand while they were doing CPR,” Moore told the outlet. “I had my parents take my son and I just remained with him. We tried to get him stable. He was stable for a while.”
Authorities transported Lyons to a local hospital, and Moore tried to schedule an ICU flight back to the United States.
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A North Carolina firefighter died while snorkeling in Turks and Caicos. (iStock)
“At the hospital, it just took a turn for the worse,” Moore told the Reflector.
Lyons deployed with the Little River Volunteer Fire Department to assist with relief efforts after Hurricane Helene and served at several other North Carolina fire departments over the course of his career, according to the Red Oak Community Rural Fire Department.
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Jay Lyons deployed with the Little River Volunteer Fire Department to assist with relief efforts after Hurricane Helene and served at several other North Carolina fire departments over the course of his career. (Red Oak Rural Community Fire Dept.)
“We are sorry to report the loss of our brother Red Oak Firefighter Jay Lyons today in a tragic accident while he was on vacation outside of the country,” the Department said in a June 6 Facebook post. “Jay was well-liked here at Red Oak and he made a lasting impression on everyone.”
“He was an optimistic person who loved his family,” the Red Oak Community FD said.
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Edgecombe County remembered Lyons as one of the county’s first firefighters in a June 7 Facebook post.
Jay Lyons leaves behind two daughters, ages 3 and 1. (Edgecombe County)
“As one of Edgecombe County’s first firefighters, he served with courage, kindness, and a heart for others. His impact was felt far beyond our team, and all who knew him admired and loved him,” the county said.
A GoFundMe for the firefighter titled “Continued help for Jaywon’s Family” says Lyons’ body was returned to North Carolina on June 23.
Lyons leaves behind two daughters, ages 3 and 1.
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