Although Farage refused to endorse either Trump or Hilary, he stated, “I will say this: If I was an American citizen, I wouldn’t vote for Hillary Clinton if you paid me”.
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“Just yesterday, one of Britain’s most prominent right-wing leaders, a man named Nigel Farage, who stoked anti-immigrant sentiment to win the referendum to have Britain leave the European Union, campaigned with Donald Trump”, she said.
“She added: “[Farage] supports scrapping laws that prevent employers from discriminating based on race.
The billionaire businessman noted the leave side trailed in opinion polls heading into the referendum, and Farage suggested that USA voters who might be keeping their personal views silent on the White House race will flock to Trump and propel him to victory.
He told Trump’s supporters that he “wouldn’t vote for Hillary Clinton if she paid me”.
Ms Clinton also used her speech to declare that Mr Farage was part of a wider movement, adding:”The grand godfather of this global brand of extreme nationalism is Russian President Vladmir Putin. They voted to reclaim control over immigration, over their economy, over their government”, Trump said at a Jackson, Mississippi, rally Wednesday evening.
Farage, who told local MS radio that the similarities between Brexit and the United States election were “uncanny”, leaned on the themes of freedom and taking back control that were so often used in his campaign. But persuading such voters to turn out will be crucial to her success.
The Republican candidate, whose stop in deep red MS at this point in the general election raised eyebrows and stirred confusion, surprised the crowd when he brought on stage with him a physical embodiment of his Brexit message: Britain’s Nigel Farage.
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”. 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.
Britain’s vote in June to leave the EU – by 52 to 48 percent – left many observers, who had forecast a vote to remain in the union, astonished. As monikers go, this is an odd choice: the Republican presidential candidate has never made clear that he understands what Brexit even is. “In fact, I wouldn’t vote for Hillary Clinton if she paid me!”
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And earlier in August he declared ‘They will soon be calling me Mr. Brexit!’
