Former Congressman and Taxes GOP Chair, Lt. Colonel Allen West, speaks at the 45th National Conservative Student Conference at 7:45 p.m. ET on July 24. …

Former Congressman and Taxes GOP Chair, Lt. Colonel Allen West, speaks at the 45th National Conservative Student Conference at 7:45 p.m. ET on July 24. …

Former Congressman and Taxes GOP Chair, Lt. Colonel Allen West, speaks at the 45th National Conservative Student Conference at 7:45 p.m. ET on July 24. …

Texas Republican gubernatorial candidate Allen West announced he was released from the hospital on Monday following a battle with pneumonia related to an infection from COVID-19. West was admitted to Medical City Plano outside of Dallas, Texas, on Saturday. The Texas conservative reported he was not vaccinated. In a Monday Twitter post, West shared a…

Texas GOP gubernatorial candidate Allen West said he’s “doing great” after he was hospitalized with COVID-19 over the weekend. “No complaints. I’m just relaxing,” West told The Associated Press, saying he was hospitalized in Plano, a Dallas suburb. The Republican former lawmaker said he is awaiting the results of a chest X-ray. West and his…

Retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Allen West, a candidate for the Republican nomination for the governor of Texas, announced late Saturday that he had been diagnosed with COVID-19. He wrote on Twitter that he and his wife, Angela West, who had also been diagnosed with COVID-19, both completed monoclonal antibody infusion therapy and “are in the…

Retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Allen West, a Republican, said Sunday he’s throwing his hat in the ring in the Texas gubernatorial primary in 2022. West, who until recently served as chairman of the Texas GOP, made the announcement at Sojourn Church in Carrollton, where he played a video launching his campaign. “You have asked me…