Democrat Marcus Jones unofficially kicks off campaign for Arkansas’ 2nd District seat

Marcus Jones thinks now is the time a Democrat can unseat five-term incumbent U.S. Rep. French Hill.

Jones, 51, a retired army colonel from Little Rock, is the latest Democrat to challenge Hill, 67, a Republican and former banker from Little Rock who was first elected to Congress in 2014. On Thursday, Jones unofficially kicked off his general election campaign, saying his status as a veteran is the key to flipping Arkansas' 2nd Congressional District.

The candidate held a news conference at the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History to announce Terri Hollingsworth -- the circuit and county clerk of Pulaski County -- as his first campaign chairperson and to unveil an endorsement from Rich Fierro, an Army veteran who tackled the gunman who shot and killed five people at Club Q in Colorado Springs.

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