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Trump kicks off his revenge tour by waving the specter of immigration

2021-06-27T23:49:22.028Z


The former president held the first rally of this tour before hundreds of his supporters in Wellington, Ohio, in an act that is seen as his return to political activity and in which he criticized immigration policies and the situation on the border with Mexico.


Former President Donald Trump started this Saturday in Wellington, Ohio, the so-called revenge tour, with a massive rally in which he targeted the state of Georgia and resumed his attacks on the immigration policies of the current Administration and the crisis migratory to the southern border.

During the rally, Trump's first since leaving the White House, the former Republican president raised an issue that he knows gives him support among conservative voters: immigration and the situation on the border with Mexico.

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As is customary for the former president, he launched a series of accusations in an unfounded manner and without offering evidence to criminalize the undocumented who arrive in the US



"Only five months of the Biden Administration have been a complete and total catastrophe, the crimes are on the rise, murders are increasing, police departments are dismantled, illegal aliens are entering our borders, no one has ever seen this, "he listed.

Trump assured that drug cartels and human traffickers have returned to operate on the border with Mexico, unlike when he was ruling.

"There is no more serious threat today than the crisis on our southern border, except maybe our elections,"

lamented the former president, who accused Biden of having dismantled "the US defenses on the border" and of having instigated "a flood of migrants. illegal ".

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Democrats have made Georgia, once reliably conservative, a competitive state.

President Joe Biden's narrow victory there, Senate victories in January, and Stacey Abrams' close run with Kemp in 2018 play into their battlefield status.

Trump recalled that next Wednesday he will travel to the border with Mexico and assured that the country's vice president, Kamala Harris, visited the border on Friday only because he had announced that he was going to go.

The former president also defended his policies, such as the US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement and the nuclear pact with Iran, as well as the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel or the renegotiation of a new trade agreement with Mexico and Canada, the T-MEC, replacing NAFTA.

The Republican mogul also took a moment to complain about Georgia and its governor, Brian Kemp, and inspired a primary challenge against him, after top Republicans refused to rig the state's vote in the November 2020 presidential election. in his favor.

Wounded by two electoral losses that cost the Republican Party control of the Senate, he is also trying to convince Herschel Walker, a soccer legend in Georgia, to run for the seat that will be available again in 2022.

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Trump's anger is reflected in the emailed statements he issues to circumvent social media bans.

Since March, it has at least mentioned Georgia at least two dozen times, representing about 12% of the messages Trump's Save America PAC sent.

No other state has been more singled out.

On Friday, Trump suggested that "THE PEOPLE of Georgia should SUE the state and its elected officials for conducting a CORRUPT AND PROPER 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION," in response to news that the Justice Department is suing the state over the voting restrictions Kemp signed in after Trump's defeat.

Supporters applaud former President Donald Trump after his rally at the Lorain County Fairgrounds in Wellington, Ohio on Saturday, June 26, 2021.AP Photo / Tony Dejak

At the same time, some prominent Georgia Republicans are fully aligned with the former president.

The state congressional delegation includes some of its staunchest advocates.

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who also spoke at the rally, is known for supporting dangerous and racist conspiracy theories.

Representatives Andrew Clyde and Jody Hice are among those who have offered a bogus revisionist story of the January 6 riot that Trump supporters led on Capitol Hill.

In March, when Hice launched his primary candidacy against Brad Raffensperger, Georgia's secretary of state, the former president backed him without delay.

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"Georgia is a small microcosm of what is happening across the country with Republicans,"

Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan, a Republican critical of Trump, told NBC News, the sister network of Noticias Telemundo.

“Unfortunately, we were on the front page of the newspapers for 10 weeks.

Certainly, the winds and chaos will appear across the country. "

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Trump vainly lobbied Kemp to help overturn the 2020 presidential results in the state, and at one point begged the secretary of state to "find" enough votes for him.

Echoing Trump's lie that his election was stolen has since become a litmus test for Republican candidates seeking to win the support of their conservative supporters.

In 2018, Kemp catapulted a system-friendly Republican thanks to the backing of the then president.

Even now, under Trump's explicit threat to campaign against his re-election, Kemp has been careful not to antagonize him and exacerbate the situation.

Yet exactly how far Trump will go to exact revenge remains to be seen.

He is expected to hold a rally in Georgia soon.

"Depending on how much he wants to get involved, and seems very involved, Trump could be a defining voice in more than one race in Georgia," opined a Republican close to Trump's political operation.

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Vernon Jones, a former state legislator and former Democrat, believes he would still be president if it weren't for Kemp.

His campaign manager, CJ Pearson, said Trump's discontent with Kemp was the "catalyst" for his candidacy.

Former President Donald Trump greets supporters after a rally at the Lorain County Fairgrounds in Wellington, Ohio on Saturday, June 26, 2021.AP Photo / Tony Dejak

But Trump has not endorsed Jones.

And Corey Lewandowski, a Trump adviser who runs one of the former president's super PACs, hinted last week about a potentially strong new contender.

"I've talked to what I think will be a phenomenal candidate

," Lewandowski said Tuesday on conservative commentator John Fredericks' syndicated radio show.

Lewandowski did not identify the candidate, but called him a "known product" who "has been elected in an area where Republicans are not traditionally elected."

Kemp entered 2021 with $ 6.3 million available for a reelection campaign that he officially launched last month.

Allies say he has focused on activating a large team of grassroots supporters across the state.

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When pressured by people at Republican events about his refusal to reverse Trump's loss, Kemp responds by "telling the truth," reminding them that he followed the law and emphasizing his conservative achievements, according to a Republican close to the governor's team who requested anonymity. to discuss a politically tense issue.

Pearson questioned Kemp's viability without Trump behind him.

"We have seen that Brian Kemp can function well with the support of the president," Pearson said, referring to the endorsement of Trump in 2018. "What we have not seen him do to run without his support," he recalled.

Raffensperger started the year with about $ 87,000 in his campaign account, and Republicans aware of his stance on the negative vote and Trump's enthusiastic endorsement of Hice see him as more vulnerable than Kemp.

A spokesman for Raffensperger declined to comment.

The Hice campaign did not respond to requests for comment about the primary.

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As for the Senate race, several Republicans have expressed interest in challenging Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock, including former Senator Kelly Loeffler, who lost to him in the January special election.

Gary Black, the state agriculture commissioner-elect, is the only advertised candidate with statewide recognition.

Walker, a Heisman winner at the University of Georgia who played for Trump's former United States Soccer League franchise and later in the NFL, raised expectations that he will run for the seat in a recent tweet.

The politician close to Trump, who requested anonymity to speak frankly, predicted that Walker would clear the Republican field and force the former president and his family to invest even more in Georgia.

A Walker campaign would also give the party a well-known black candidate to rival Warnock, and possibly Abrams, at the top of the 2022 list.

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Given her near failure in 2018 and her continued national profile as a voting rights activist, Abrams would once again be a formidable Democratic opponent if she runs for governor, as many hope.

In a state where fewer than 12,000 votes separated Biden and Trump, his potential strength is a factor that Republican primary candidates and voters might weigh.

With information from EFE and NBC News.

Source: telemundo

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