UKIP leader Nigel Farage has rallied with Republican Presidential hopeful Donald Trump.
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In response, Farage called the claims “completely baseless” and compared Clinton to Bob Geldof – with whom he had an altercation on the River Thames during the European Union referendum campaign. “I could not possibly tell you how you should vote in this election”, Farage said to chants of “Trump” from the crowd. To those I say the following: What do you have to lose by trying something new like Trump?
Trump – who has consistently trailed Clinton in the polls – is hoping that dynamic will also replicate on this side of the Atlantic.
In a tweet last week, the property mogul said: “They will soon be calling me Mr Brexit”.
He previously hinted at his preference for Mr Trump, saying: “If you put me up against a wall, it’s got to be him [Trump], not Hillary, but I have reservations”.
Donald Trump smiled as Nigel Farage blasted his political rival and lauded the Republican tycoon’s flailing presidential campaign.
“You can go out and beat the pollsters, you can beat the commentators, you can beat Washington and you’ll do it by doing what we did for Brexit in Britain”.
“And we did it, we made June the 23rd our independence day when we smashed the establishment”, Farage said. He spoke for ten minutes and drew a loud applause from the excited crowd after he stated that Trump represented a similar kind of anti-establishment movement that Farage himself had masterminded in the UK.
And, after the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, which he described as “one of the big votes in the history of Europe, and Scotland, and everywhere”, he still managed to enrage citizens there, tweeting in Scotland – where he was visiting one of his golf courses – the day after the referendum that the “place is going wild over the vote”, despite the fact that Scotland voted overwhelmingly to remain. “He [Obama] talked down to us”, said Farage, according to the BBC. “In fact, I wouldn’t vote for Hillary Clinton if she paid me”, Farage said.
Donald Trump hammered home his “America First” slogan on Wednesday by presenting the presidential election as a chance for voters to “re-declare American independence”.
For the rest of the rally, Trump ran through most of his standard stump speech, repeatedly harping on the immigration plan of Clinton and accusing her of playing identity politics and delivering his harshest criticism of the candidate’s relationship with minority voters.
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“Trump is the candidate with whom things will change”. “I get it”, he told them.
