In Mississippi, Nigel Farage giving hand to Donald Trump and calls for unity to Republicans – Express

Nigel Farage may have abandoned the party leadership for the UK Independence Party (UKIP) but by no means disappeared from the spotlight. At least not in the United States where, as the Express was determined, was on Wednesday (dawn Thursday in Portugal) to give their support to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

in front of 15,000 supporters of the populist tycoon concentrated in Jackson, Mississippi, the former leader of the xenophobic party and anti-immigrant, who left the movement’s leadership in early July, urged Republicans to “calcem the combat boots “and unite around its controversial candidate for the November 8th elections.

under loud applause, Farage took the stage to emphasize that the Republican Party can” dethrone the polls “in the presidential race clearly ignoring the fact that every new survey, reinforcing expectations for a loss not only of the opposition candidate as the party itself in the Senate, under their control from the interim 2014.

in a tweet last week, Trump had already lifted the veil on his guest of honor this evening to write that “soon they will call me sir Brexit” – a veiled reference to the fact that, against all predictions, Farage and other UK output supporters of the European Union have managed to win the referendum last June by an anti-immigration campaign that raised numerous criticisms at all similar to that Trump has conducted in the uS.

presenting Farage to the audience in Jackson, Trump said a man who led a “brilliantly” campaign to secure the victory in the referendum, at least in theory, has put an end to 40 years of accession to the European bloc. When took the stage, the outgoing leader of UKIP began by saying that brought a “message of hope and optimism” for the Republican Party, which remains deeply divided over its own candidate.

His speech It focused, with no major surprises, the parallels between the application Trump the White House and the campaign “popular army of ordinary citizens” who managed to establish the victory of Brexit in the UK, much thanks to the “successful commitment” UKIP with voters before the June 23 vote, he said. Vote for Trump in the US is the same as “vote for independence from America,” he said to the delight of those present, before to ensure that would not vote for the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton “not to pay you.”

“If want to change this country, it is better calçarem combat boots and go out to the streets to campaign, “said Farage. “And remember:. Everything is possible if enough decent people are prepared to rise up against the system”