Nigel Farage, the leader of the British pro-Brexit campaign, stumped for Donald Trump in MS yesterday, calling on voters to back the Republican presidential nominee as a way to defy the political establishment.
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Mr Farage stopped of a formal endorsement of Mr Trump, saying that he could not tell voters who to back in the November 8th election having condemned President Barack Obama for urging the British people to vote to stay in the European Union in the June referendum.
Speaking in Scotland in the aftermath of the British vote to leave the EU, Trump said “people are angry” and “this will not be the last” .
Mr Farage spoke at a rally for outspoken Republican nominee Donald Trump in MS on Wednesday, drawing parallels between the European Union referendum campaign and the property billionaire’s White House bid. Trump is now trailing Clinton in the polls, but Farage told the crowd of 15,000 activists that the Republican candidate could “beat the pollsters”.
“If you want change in this country, you better get your walking boots on, you better get out there campaigning”.
Farage, the outgoing head of the United Kingdom Independence Party, said “anything is possible” if enough people band together, and predicted that Trump’s presidential campaign would “smash the establishment”. One of them even went on to say that his knowledge of Farage was limited to the fact that he was British.
Though Farage stopped short of endorsing Trump for president, he said that if he were an American voter, he would go another way.
“I could not possibly tell you how to vote in this election”, he told the crowd of around 15,000.
“Frankly, what we were sold was a complete pack of scaremongering lies, it was called “project fear” and I said to the audience last night [at Trump’s rally in Jackson, Mississippi] that you will hear the same thing”.
Now, the obvious concern about a rally such as this one in MS are the divisive overtones: For those unfamiliar with his work, Farage is one of Britain’s most notorious xenophobes.
It is unusual for a candidate for America’s highest office to wheel out a foreign politician, but Trump’s campaign has made a virtue of breaking with convention.
Trump, who is trailing his rival Hillary Clinton in the opinion polls, backed the UK’s exit from the EU.
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The architect of the withdrawal campaign, known as Brexit, took up Trump’s invitation to join the GOP presidential nominee on stage during a rally late Wednesday in Jackson, Mississippi.
