“In fact, I wouldn’t vote for Hillary Clinton if she paid me”.
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Bearing that in mind Mr Farage said he could “not possibly tell you how to vote in this election”, prompting shouts of “Trump!”
And he enthusiastically compared the groundswell of support for Mr Trump to the strength of popular opinion that carried Brexit to victory.
When Varney pointed out claims that the British people resented President Obama traveling to Britain in April and telling voters to support the United Kingdom remaining in the European Union and that Americans might view Farage’s comments on the USA election in a similar way, Farage responded, “I didn’t tell anyone how to vote, I wouldn’t dare do such a thing, I did suggest though that if I was an American citizen, I wouldn’t vote for Hillary because nothing is going to change if that woman wins”.
When most pundits were still predicting that Trump’s presidential run would crash and burn, Farage said that his comments had “gone too far” adding that “I think Mr Trump’s somewhat knee-jerk reaction to this, saying that all Muslims should be banned from coming into America was perhaps for him a political mistake too far”.
The architect of the withdrawal campaign, known as Brexit, joined the GOP presidential nominee on stage during a rally late Wednesday in Jackson, Mississippi.
Thousands of miles away from home, in a solidly Republican state, a British populist politician came here on Wednesday to deliver “a message of hope and a message of optimism”.
At the rally, Farage gave the crowd advice about running a successful, anti-establishment campaign.
Mr Farage repeatedly mentioned that the Leave campaign had beaten the odds.
Mr Trump introduced Mr Farage as the man who “brilliantly” led the UK Independence Party’s campaign to secure a vote on the future of the UK’s 40-year membership of the European Union. “He treated us as if we were nothing”.
“We saw the commentariat and the polling industry doing everything they could do demoralise our campaign”.
The pollsters and pundits were wrong, Farage argued, because Brexit campaigners reached non voters.
“If you want change in this country, you better get your walking boots on”. He emphasized his “Make America Great Again”, and “America First”, slogan and stated that the November election was an opportunity for voters to “re-declare American independence”.
Trump joined the bandwagon before a crowd of nearly all white people, calling Hillary Clinton a bigot who sees coloured people only as votes, not human beings.
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“The alternative is we have career politicians who don’t say anything”.
