The Duce embraces a blatant racial grievance in Huntsville, Alabama, while there campaigning against the Bannon/Palin/Buchananist pick, Judge Roy Moore, and for the Mitch McConnell establishment pick, Luther Strange, in the GOP primary for Jeff Sessions vacant senate seat.
A move to get his "white nationalist" supporters on board for his guy rather than their guy.
Alabama Senate race: It's Trump vs. Trumpland
President Donald Trump's political muscles are getting a workout in a Republican runoff election in Alabama that has an awkward dynamic: He's campaigning for the establishment-backed incumbent over an upstart beloved by many of his own most ardent supporters, including his former chief strategist Steve Bannon.
Motivated by personal loyalty and a sense that the race is newly competitive, Trump heads to Huntsville, Alabama, on Friday to campaign for Sen. Luther Strange, appointed in February to temporarily fill the seat that opened up when Jeff Sessions became attorney general.
The winner of next Tuesday's runoff will be the GOP candidate in a December election to serve out the rest of Sessions' term, ending in January 2021.
Strange is locked in a tight race with former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, a jurist known for pushing unsuccessfully for the public display of the Ten Commandments and opposing gay marriage.
A super political action committee tied to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who favors Strange, has pumped millions of dollars into the race, as Senate Republicans worry that Moore would be a disruptive figure in the chamber, or might even lose to Democrat Doug Jones.
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Challenger Moore, running on an anti-Washington platform, has backing from former Trump chief strategist Bannon and his conservative website Breitbart News, and the Great America Alliance, an advocacy group that supports Trump.
A rally for Moore Thursday night at a historic train shed on the banks of the Alabama River featured Trump allies including former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and former White House official Sebastian Gorka.
Palin stressed her support for the president, while arguing that Moore was a better match for Trump's "movement."
"A vote for Judge Moore isn't a vote against the president. It is a vote for the people's agenda that elected the president," Palin told several hundred cheering supporters.
Trump Calls on NFL Owners to Fire Players Who Protest, and Mocks Efforts to Make the Game Safer
His language was as harsh and direct as you would expect from a man firing an apprentice.
The NFL not with him.
NFL head and players speak out on Trump's calling for kneeling players to be 'fired'
And still more on the racial grievance front.
President Trump withdraws Stephen Curry’s White House invitation, slammed by LeBron James as 'bum'
President Trump said Stephen Curry is no longer invited to Washington to celebrate the Warrior's NBA title hours after the athlete announced he did not want to attend.
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