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Former Pres. Trump To Speak At N.C. GOP Convention
Donald Trump gave a rare speech to the Republican Party of North Carolina’s annual convention on Saturday evening.
The former president appeared at the event in Greenville, North Carolina, as he has reportedly been telling friends to push the idea he will be back in the White House in August.
During the speech Mr Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, announced that she would not run for the state’s US Senate seat.
Ms Trump, who is married to Eric Trump, had been hotly tipped to run for elected office but after she was called up on stage by the former president she revealed she would not run.
Former President Donald Trump is pushing Republicans to support those candidates who share his values in next year’s midterm elections as he launches a new.
Some party leaders worry that a rise of pro-Trump candidates in the coming months could jeopardise the GOP’s fight for control of Congress in 2022. While Trump remains a dominant force within his party, he is deeply unpopular among key segments of the broader electorate. He lost the last election by 7 million votes after alienating Republican-leaning suburban voters across the country.
The former president joined wider Republican criticism of Fauci – the US’s leading infectious diseases official – for asking Americans to wear masks to guard against the virus and for at times being sceptical of a hotly contested theory that the virus escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan, China.