Meet the Republican running for the open House seat in Mass.

Really great to meet you in person, and I really appreciate all the work that you do.

Well, it's great to meet you as well, and I'm sure there are many people out there that would like to learn a little bit more.

So just give us your quick 10,000-foot resume.

Thank you, Matt.

So my name is Micah Jones, and I am a U.S. Army veteran, an attorney, a father of two little kids.

My wife is a saint for supporting this run for office, and a husband.

And most of all, running for Congress because I deeply love the United States of America, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the greater communities of the North Shore and Merrimack Valley that make up the Massachusetts 6th Congressional District.

Above all, I really want the Mass 6 to be the best place to raise a family, start a business, and build a life.

If I was reading through your resume correctly, I also saw that you were a former Democrat at one point.

Absolutely.

And that's been something that I really feel strongly about and highlighting.

So, that's exactly correct, Matt, in that I used to be a registered Democrat.

I really viewed myself as a JFK Democrat, a Kennedy Democrat.

And what I mean by that is that like so many Americans, I think I always admired President Kennedy's policies, particularly that famous quote, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

That's something that really stayed with me my entire life.

And in growing up, and I want to highlight that, My parents are exact opposites when it comes to their political ideology, their background.

My mom was and is a registered Democrat.

My dad was and is a registered Republican.

I highlight that in that I grew up in kind of a foot in both worlds, an understanding of different perspectives.

And even though my parents canceled each other out when it came to voting— They really encouraged my younger brother and me to form our own political opinion, create our own political consciousness, and most of all, to vote.

And so, in doing that, again, the words and kind of foundation of President Kennedy always really resonated with me, particularly when it came to his view on public service, civil rights, free market economics, and most of all, his belief that America is a force for good in the world.

Something I like to highlight and kind of a fun historical fact is that President Kennedy's administration created both the Green Berets and the Peace Corps in the same term, which to me really distills an understanding of both American hard power and soft power to advance American interests.

So, yes, I was a JFK Democrat for eight years.

And as I'm sure we'll highlight momentarily, I left the Democratic Party when I was in law school at Northeastern, like, the 63% of the district of the Mass 6.

I became an independent.