Nigel Farage’s newest stateside go to has everybody on social media asking the identical query: what’s he doing there, and never in his constituency?
The Reform social gathering chief and MP for Clacton is within the US, once more, supporting Donald Trump as Individuals head to the polls in the present day.
The neck and neck race between the Republican nominee and his Democrat rival, vice-president Kamala Harris, is sort of over after a protracted and turbulent marketing campaign from each side.
Nonetheless, Farage shouldn’t be a US citizen neither is he on Trump’s crew (though he briefly thought of supporting it in the summertime).
In the long run, he really determined to run because the Reform candidate in Clacton-on-Sea – and received.
That was a serious victory for each his social gathering, which solely had one Tory defector in parliament over the last time period, and for Farage personally, contemplating his seven earlier unsuccessful makes an attempt to get a seat within the Commons.
However the Clacton MP – who initially refused to carry face-to-face surgical procedures in his constituency, claiming he could be focused – has simply made his third journey to the States in 4 months.
So, naturally, his critics had been fast to name him out.
Actually so many individuals began to touch upon Farage’s journey, they quickly acquired the phrase “Clacton” trending on X…
However some accounts as a substitute recalled how Farage had been fast to dub Labour activists “very silly” for door-knocking for Kamala Harris….
Farage additionally attended the Republican Nationwide Conference in an effort to see Trump after the failed assassination try on the ex-president in July, and once more in August to talk at an occasion known as Maintain Arizona Free Summit.
This newest journey noticed Farage attend Trump’s final marketing campaign rally earlier than the polls closed.
He even acquired a shoutout from Trump because the “massive winner” of the UK normal election, regardless of his social gathering solely taking 5 MPs.
Not like in 2016 and 2020, Farage didn’t get to talk on the rally, although.
It’s not identified why he was relegated to simply waving from the crowds this time – and described merely as a “man from Europe” by Trump.
It got here hours after Farage advised the press that, if the Republican had been to lose this election, Trump ought to settle for the loss and “go and play golf”.
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