basquebromance
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C’mon Bo bro you’re 100% unemployed & always have been. Let alone your 2 conservative marriages by age 25. North Carolina & NC13 are so much better than this.
www.politico.com
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Donald Trump stunned North Carolina Republicans last month when he announced his support for Bo Hines, a 26-year-old candidate who doesn’t live anywhere near the congressional district he’s running in.
Now, with Hines set to join the former president on stage at a rally in Johnston County Saturday, a local effort is afoot to sink his candidacy before it takes off.
The revolt against Trump by conservatives who adore him, while rare, isn’t the first of its kind this year. Trump has issued scores of midterm endorsements, in some cases for candidates who are all but unknown to local GOP officials and activists.
“It feels like it’s incumbent on us to make sure everybody understands that Bo Hines may be a fine fellow — I don’t know him — but the truth of it is he’s not a resident of the district,” said Linwood Parker, chair of the Johnston County Republican Men’s Organization and former mayor of Four Oaks. “He’s coming in, just trying to cherry pick a district he can win.”
Earlier in the election cycle, Hines campaigned for other congressional seats elsewhere in the state. He filed to run in the newly redrawn 13th district on March 2; less than two weeks later, Trump issued his endorsement, describing the 26-year-old as an “unwavering America First patriot.”
A Charlotte native who most recently resided two hours away in Winston-Salem, Hines is in the process of moving to Fuquay-Varina, located in southern Wake County, according to his campaign spokesperson. He intends to update his voter registration in time to vote in the upcoming primary.
Asked why Hines decided to run in a district where he has no obvious connections, spokesperson Rob Burgess provided a statement calling Hines “the only true America First, social conservative endorsed by President Donald Trump in this race.” He noted that Hines lived nearby while attending North Carolina State University, where Hines played football for the 2014 season before transferring to Yale.
“We’re all America First people, but we don’t need Mr. Trump or anybody else bringing candidates in who don’t know nothing about farming, don’t know anything about agriculture and the roads here and the needs we have,” Lands said.
Lands plans to attend the Trump rally on Saturday to hand out literature promoting Barbour and cautioning against Hines
“Bo-flex” ads, a term some local GOP operatives have jokingly used to describe B-roll of the former athlete pumping iron and jumping rope, have already begun airing in the district, paid for by Hines’ campaign and the House Freedom Caucus’ super PAC.
Local conservatives revolt against Trump House favorite
The former president endorsed a 26-year-old who lives hours away from the congressional district he's running in.
www.politico.com
excerpts:
Donald Trump stunned North Carolina Republicans last month when he announced his support for Bo Hines, a 26-year-old candidate who doesn’t live anywhere near the congressional district he’s running in.
Now, with Hines set to join the former president on stage at a rally in Johnston County Saturday, a local effort is afoot to sink his candidacy before it takes off.
The revolt against Trump by conservatives who adore him, while rare, isn’t the first of its kind this year. Trump has issued scores of midterm endorsements, in some cases for candidates who are all but unknown to local GOP officials and activists.
“It feels like it’s incumbent on us to make sure everybody understands that Bo Hines may be a fine fellow — I don’t know him — but the truth of it is he’s not a resident of the district,” said Linwood Parker, chair of the Johnston County Republican Men’s Organization and former mayor of Four Oaks. “He’s coming in, just trying to cherry pick a district he can win.”
Earlier in the election cycle, Hines campaigned for other congressional seats elsewhere in the state. He filed to run in the newly redrawn 13th district on March 2; less than two weeks later, Trump issued his endorsement, describing the 26-year-old as an “unwavering America First patriot.”
A Charlotte native who most recently resided two hours away in Winston-Salem, Hines is in the process of moving to Fuquay-Varina, located in southern Wake County, according to his campaign spokesperson. He intends to update his voter registration in time to vote in the upcoming primary.
Asked why Hines decided to run in a district where he has no obvious connections, spokesperson Rob Burgess provided a statement calling Hines “the only true America First, social conservative endorsed by President Donald Trump in this race.” He noted that Hines lived nearby while attending North Carolina State University, where Hines played football for the 2014 season before transferring to Yale.
“We’re all America First people, but we don’t need Mr. Trump or anybody else bringing candidates in who don’t know nothing about farming, don’t know anything about agriculture and the roads here and the needs we have,” Lands said.
Lands plans to attend the Trump rally on Saturday to hand out literature promoting Barbour and cautioning against Hines
“Bo-flex” ads, a term some local GOP operatives have jokingly used to describe B-roll of the former athlete pumping iron and jumping rope, have already begun airing in the district, paid for by Hines’ campaign and the House Freedom Caucus’ super PAC.
