Trump is set to hold yet another of his MAGA-turned Save America rallies tonight, this time in the tiny town of Deleware, Ohio.
The disgraced former president’s rallies, while still popular and drawing significant attention, have been on a downhill slide in recent months, as he randomly and abruptly cancels some, while others draw pretty humiliatingly dismal crowd sizes. However, according to a new report from POLITICO, thanks to some really bad endorsements decisions here lately, tonight’s pro-Trump event may go even worse than we thought, as one Ohio Conservative group is going out of their way to actually encourage some disruption to the former president’s ego-stroking party.
Recently, the one-term, twice-impeached former guy has been on the receiving end of a hell of a lot of backlash over his endorsement of “Hillbilly Elegy” author J.D. Vance in Ohio’s Senate race.
Politico Playbook reports, “There’s been intense blowback to Trump’s endorsement of Vance, who previously criticized the president and is viewed by some as a ‘Never Trumper’ who’s now pandering to the ex-president. As the Columbus Dispatch notes, ‘thirty-three 2016 Trump delegates penned a letter calling on the former president to reconsider.'”
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The aforementioned letter states, “This endorsement of J.D. Vance is a betrayal to not only your Ohio supporters but Trump supporters across our great nation!” POLITICO goes on to note that a group dubbed Ohio Value Voters, first organized back in 2007, has urged Conservative Ohioans to boycott Trump’s event tonight entirely. But, for those of them who still want to attend the ex-president’s rally, the Right-wing group is calling on them to cause a disruption for the former guy and make their disapproval of his Vance endorsement well known.
“Ohio Value Voters urges Ohioans to boycott the Trump Rally in Delaware County this Saturday, April 23rd,” the group’s website reads. “However, if you decide to attend, when President Trump introduces JD Vance, make your voices heard by letting Trump know, JD Vance is Wrong for Ohio. Booing is entirely appropriate!”
They go on to add, “On April 15, 2022, President Trump made a terrible decision and endorsed JD Vance for Senate. This can only be attributed to very poor advice from people around the former President.”
According to the memo, the Conservative group is furious over Vance’s public criticism of Donald Trump in the not-so-distant past, that the former guy seems to have somehow forgiven and forgotten in the wake of his endorsement. Ohio Value Voters President John Stover cited the Bible in his criticism of Vance, pointing his followers to the verse James 1:8 which reads, “A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.”
The memo from the group goes on to add that they have thrown their support behind the Trump-endorsed candidate’s opposition, Josh Mandel — who previously boasted a massive lead over Vance in the Ohio Senate race, before Donald Trump’s endorsement.
To be frank, I’m just hoping we get to see some boos tonight.
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