One of crypto's finest may be headed to Capitol Hill even as he tells FOX Business that digital-asset advocacy won’t be central to his long-shot bid to unseat Elizabeth Warren, the powerful progressive lawmaker who has served as the senior senator from Massachusetts for more than a decade. John Deaton, a Marine veteran, attorney and well-known crypto advocate, clinched the GOP nomination Tuesday evening, snapping up 65% of the party vote to challenge Warren on Nov. 5.
But it would be a mistake for Warren to believe that Deaton is a single-issue candidate focused solely on crypto. Instead, Deaton tells FOX Business he's focusing on Massachusetts' weak immigration laws that have led to an influx of migrants into the state, as well as tax policy that he says has decimated the working class as jobs leave the Northeast for tax-friendly locales and ending inflation through fiscal restraint.