Morgan Ortagus, a former State Department spokesman, and two other people were removed from the August primary ballot by the Tennessee Republican Party. The vote marked the culmination of months of effort by both GOP legislators and activists to boot Ortagus because she had only recently moved to the state. Donald Trump endorsed her. Ortagus said in a statement that he was a "bonfire Republican by their standards." I am disappointed that the Tennessee Republican Party do not seem to share my commitment to President Trump's America First policies. She said that voters in Middle Tennessee should pick their representative not the establishment party. The state GOP's executive committee has the power to disqualify candidates from the primary ballot if they fail to vote in three of the last four GOP primaries. State GOP Chairman Scott Golden said that the committee voted to remove Ortagus and others from the race. A number of candidates have been thrown out by the party for failing to meet qualifications. Golden said last month that party leaders in the district could help keep challenged candidates from being disqualified by vouching for them before the committee. According to the Ortagus campaign, she met all of the state party's rules, including voting in the recent GOP primaries. In a statement ahead of the vote, Ortagus said she spent several weeks speaking with members of the State Executive Committee about her core conservative beliefs, her background serving in the Trump Administration and the U.S. Navy Reserves, and her conservative vision for our state and our country. President Donald Trump believes I'm the best person to fight for his America First agenda and Middle Tennessee in Congress, and I'm working hard to ensure that my fellow Tennesseans understand why. The primary is one of many where the influence of Trump is being put to the test. Although Ortagus entered the competitive primary for the newly drawn 5th District in February with the former president's complete and total endorsement, her candidacy irked some state and local Republicans because she had moved to Tennessee only last. Her critics have highlighted her years of criticism of Trump and her support for Bush in the 2016 GOP primaries, as well as the fact that her wedding was presided over by a liberal Supreme Court Justice. The bill that would have disqualified her from the primary ballot was passed in recent weeks. The legislation, which requires congressional candidates to live in the state for three years to qualify for primary ballots, passed the GOP-controlled Legislature before Republican Gov. Bill Lee allowed it to become law without signing it. The legislation would not apply retroactively to candidates who qualified by the deadline, according to a spokesman for the Tennessee secretary of state. I voted for Trump. Frank Niceley, the Republican who spearheaded the legislation, said in an interview that he would vote for Trump as long as he lived. I don't want him telling me who to vote for. Rumors swirled in local GOP circles that Trump would not care if Ortagus was defeated before voters had a chance to vote. In the earlier interview, Niceley, who is supporting former state House Speaker Beth Harwell in the primary and recently came under fire after he invoked Adolf Hitler in a state Senate floor speech about homelessness, suggested that only Jewish members of Trump's family cared about Ortagus. He said that he doesn't think Trump cares one way or the other. She will be upset. I don't think Trump cares. The Tennessean reported this week that Beth Campbell, a member of the Republican National Committee, said in an April 10 email that the state GOP had removed Ortagus from the ballot. Taylor Budowich denied Campbell's claim in a statement to The Tennessean. He didn't reply to NBC News' request. He told The Tennessean that it was a dirty lie and that there were RINOs in Tennessee trying to remove President Trump from the ballot. Starbuck, a right-wing personality who moved to the 5th District and is backed by pro- Trump lawmakers, pushed back against the state party process, saying that he had not met the primary voting requirement because of a simple mix up. He said in a statement last month that not allowing him on the ballot would be a big problem. Starbuck, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment, posted a video Tuesday evening of the late Breitbart News founder saying "war" There are about a dozen candidates in the primary. The 5th District is held by Jim Cooper, a Democrat who announced his retirement after the Republican-held Legislature released new voting maps. Morgan Ortagus, Baxter Lee, and Robby Starbuck were kicked off the ballot by Tennessee Republicans. Eric Bolling told his former Fox News colleague that he had gone too far. 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