Nigel Farage, ex-leader of the British UKIP party, arrives onstage to speak at Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Jackson, Miss., Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016. Farage said he would not do the same.
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Mr. Farage previously said that he would not personally endorse Donald Trump but his speech last night was closer than ever to that point.
Farage, who told local MS radio that the similarities between Brexit and the USA election were “uncanny”, leaned on the themes of freedom and taking back control that were so often used in his campaign.
Hillary Clinton has accused Nigel Farage of capitalising on a “rising tide of hardline, right-wing nationalism” to secure a Leave vote in the referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union.
Mr Farage said: “Anything is possible if enough decent people are prepared to stand up against the establishment”.
Like what you see? “What we did in the United Kingdom on the 23 of June, was to strike the first really big blow against the professional political class working hand in glove with the giant multinationals and the big Wall Street banks”, Farage told the FOX Business Network’s Stuart Varney.
Clinton suggested it was Trump, not Farage, who came off worse when the pair appeared on stage in MS on Wednesday evening. “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”.
Trump, who defeated 16 rivals for the Republican presidential nomination partly based on his opposition to illegal immigrants, said he would not allow for the granting of American citizenship to the undocumented population and that he would expel those who break the law.
Trump did support the leave moment, but only in the final days before the vote, after acknowledging earlier that he didn’t know much about the referendum.
Trump faces many challenges in his general election campaign against Hillary Clinton, but he has held an edge over the Democratic standard bearer as the candidate who can bring “change” to Washington.
But Mr Farage suggested Mrs Clinton’s comments showed she was “running scared”. One of them even went on to say that his knowledge of Farage was limited to the fact that he was British.
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“We reached those people who have never voted in their lives but believed by going and by voting for Brexit they cold take back control of their country, take back control of their borders and get back their pride and self-respect”.
