Nigel Farage was on gregarious and ebullient form at our Americano US election event in Westminster last night.
He confidently assured the audience that Donald Trump is going to win. He repeatedly mocked the British Conservative and Labour parties. And he offered his services as a sort of unofficial transatlantic point man for the ‘special relationship’.
Having claimed in Politico yesterday that he was 90 per cent sure that Trump would take back the White House, Farage upped the ante for The Spectator audience. ‘I tell you what, folks,’ he said, ‘be in no doubt on 5 November, Donald Trump is going to win. And thank God for that.’
Farage called Trump’s McDonald’s stunt last weekend ‘absolute political genius.’
‘We’re seeing the humorous side of Trump,’ he said. ‘We’re seeing the fun side of Trump. And all the while, he’s smiling. He’s going to win.’
Farage conceded that he had experienced moments of doubt about a Trump comeback in the last four years.
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