Farage due in Mississippi to attend Trump event
Former UK Independence Party (Ukip) leader Nigel Farage says he is slated to join US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump during a campaign rally in the state of Mississippi on Wednesday.
Farage told Sky News that his appearance before thousands of Trump’s supporters would not qualify as an endorsement.
Rather, he said, his speech before the expected 10,000-strong crowd would be about “the Brexit story.”
On June 23, nearly 52 percent of British voters participating in a referendum opted to end Britain’s membership in the European Union (EU).
Farage was one of the main leaders of the so-called Leave campaign, but resigned from the Ukip leadership in the aftermath of the vote.
The announcement has seemingly confused Trump’s campaign, with spokeswoman Hope Hicks telling Sky News that she is unaware of the arrangement and that the men “don’t know each other.”
This is while a Fox News correspondent has confirmed that Farage would attend the event upon an invitation of Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant. The two had met at the Republican National Convention last month.
The most concrete confirmation, however, seems to have come from Trump himself in the form of a cryptic Twitter message.
“They will soon be calling me MR. BREXIT!” he said last Thursday.
The announcement, if true, is not a big surprise, considering Trump’s stance on the Brexit, which he once referred to as a “great victory.”
In the aftermath of the referendum, Trump visited his golf resort in Scotland, and enthusiastically welcomed the decision, saying it was a “great thing” that Britons had “taken back their country”.
He has even drawn parallels between the decision and what he calls a similar movement in the US.
"I think you are going to have this more and more. I really believe that. And it is happening in the United States," he said shortly after the referendum.
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