Nigel Farage, the former UK Independence party leader and orchestrator of the Brexit on Thursday, appeared in a Donald Trump rally in Jackson, Mississippi. “And he talked down to us, he treated us as if we were nothing”, Farage insisted, “one of the oldest functioning democracies in the world, and here he was telling us to vote Remain”.
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Mr Trump also once again turned his fire on Mrs Clinton and called her a “bigot” who will do nothing for African Americans and Hispanic people should she win the election.
He compared the federal government in Washington DEC to the European Commission, saying many people felt it had become “its own country”, and claimed that the Democrat nominee, Hilalry Clinton, epitomized the status quo.
For Trump, who stood just to the side of the lectern as Farage spoke, repeatedly nodding, smiling and applauding, the Brexit vote presented a parallel for his campaign. “That’s all I know”. He told Trump’s supporters that he “wouldn’t vote for Hillary Clinton if she paid me”. “I wouldn’t vote for Hillary Clinton if she paid me”, Farage said, as Trump’s supporters roared with approval.
Brexit Leader Nigel Farage speaks during a Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump campaign rally in Jackson, Mississippi, US, August 24, 2016.
Trump has since lost popularity in national opinion polls and is fighting to remain competitive with Democratic rival Clinton, with a bit over two months to go until the November 8 election.
She said Trump’s reluctance to defend Eastern European countries against Russian Federation and willingness to recognise Russia’s annexation of Crimea “adds up to something we have never seen before”.
“I think everybody who comes into the country should obey the laws of the country”, Graciela Cuevas, Naturalized U.S. Citizen, said.
Having a foreign politician campaign for a US presidential candidate is unusual, but the move makes sense as part of Trump’s recent initiative to re-brand himself as Mr. Brexit, or as he put it in a tweet last week: “MR. BREXIT!” He said Trump is right to be focusing on immigration, which drove the vote for Brexit.
Trump said the issues the United States faced were similar to the issues faced in Britain during their referendum on membership in the European Union.
And earlier in August he declared ‘They will soon be calling me Mr. Brexit!’
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Referencing Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims entering the US, Farage said last month (paywall) that the “style” of his rhetoric “makes even me wince a little bit”.
