Lara Trump confirms interest in Senate candidacy
Donald Trump's daughter-in-law Lara Trump has confirmed that she is very interested in a possible Senate nomination to represent her home state of North Carolina.
After a Trump in the White House, a Trump in the Senate? Tuesday, Lara Trump confirmed, during an interview on Fox News, her interest in a candidacy for the Senate to represent her native state, North Carolina: "I still think about it, absolutely", she simply said. The Conservative Channel's star host Sean Hannity replied. During Donald Trump's tenure and then the 2020 campaign, the daughter of his son Eric was involved in favor of the billionaire, multiplying meetings and fundraising. Well known to the Trumpist electorate, the 30-something would be an example of the importance the former president took over the Republican Party, as Ivanka Trump dismissed a similar candidacy in Florida, where she has settled.
Richard Burr, the outgoing Republican senator, has announced he will not stand for re-election. But he leaves on bad terms with his party: he was sanctioned for having voted in favor of the conviction of Donald Trump, tried in the Senate for "incitement to insurrection", for the role he played in the invasion du Capitole by some of its supporters on January 6. This position, adopted by only six other senators, leaves an avenue for a Trumpist candidacy in this state won by the former president in the election last November with 1.3 points ahead of Joe Biden - a considerably reduced lead against 3.6 points against Hillary Clinton in 2016.
"If Lara came forward, she would immediately receive great attention across the state," said Michael Whatley, head of the Republican Party of North Carolina earlier this month, polled by ABC11. To the local broadcaster, he confirmed his goal: "To make sure we keep all of the Trump voters who came in the last election and to make them lasting Republican voters." Any position of senator is of crucial importance since, since the special elections last January in Georgia, Republicans and Democrats are tied with 50 elected each.
Trump wants to create his own social network
Asked the same day on the Just The News media, Lara Trump confirmed that Donald Trump was working on a social network project, after having himself been banned from Twitter, Facebook and YouTube for having multiplied the baseless accusations of electoral fraud, in violation of the rules in force on these platforms. “They have been proven to erase the word of the Conservatives. (…) He takes (this project) very seriously, he wants a space where everyone is welcome, where people will not have fact-checkers on their back, "she said.
