‘Go Play Golf!’ Longtime Trump Ally Nigel Farage Urges Trump to Accept Defeat if Kamala Harris Wins
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Nigel Farage, British MP and long-time ally to former President Donald Trump, called on the former president to accept defeat if the election ends decisively in Vice President Kamala Harris’s favor and “go play golf at Turnberry.”
Farage, leader of the UK’s Reform Party, arrived in Florida to join Trump’s election night watch party at Mar-a-Lago where he sat down for an interview with The Telegraph when he urged Republicans to respect a clear outcome.
“If it was clear and decisive then maybe it’s time [for Trump] to go and play golf at Turnberry,” Farage said.
The British MP added that if Harris clinches victory, a strategic move would be for her to pardon Trump to prevent any post-election unrest.
“If she gets in on Tuesday, I hope she pardons him,” he said. “She could look magnanimous, and it would dampen down potential tensions.”
The election has heightened concerns across Washington and beyond about the possibility of civil unrest, a worry that has intensified since the Capitol riots in 2021. Farage stressed the importance of accepting election results for the sake of democracy, noting that he had “never gone along with the stolen election narrative.”
“The whole point of voting is we don’t need to fight,” he remarked. “It is what we fought two world wars for.”
He continued: “Do I have huge doubts about election integrity? Yes and so do about 70 percent of Americans. About half the Democrats question the way the election is conducted,” he said, “I have to say the way they conduct elections is abhorrent.
He added: “I just hope to God it’s a clear result. It is nearly a quarter of a century ago we had the hanging chads and dimpled chads and here we are 25 years on with huge questions about how Americans conduct elections. I find it incredible.”
Even as Farage remains publicly optimistic about Trump’s chances, he added: “It’s all hypothetical and I still think he is going to win.”
Farage said he hoped that a second Trump term would bring “exciting” changes. Elon Musk, he suggested, would help implement “sweeping cuts” in Washington, slashing federal departments in what Farage envisions as a blueprint for Reform UK’s goals.
“This is the sexy bit,” he said. “Elon comes in and takes a knife to the deep state.”
Farage lambasted Harris for being “scripted to hell” and shared how he believed Trump has been wrongly maligned by the US establishment: “They hate him in Washington. They’re snobs. They call him a lorry driver. They think he’s uncouth, vulgar. But they all forget he’s a New Yorker.”
He continued: “The snobbery against him is just incredible. But politics is aligning. We are seeing it in Britain, across Europe and America. Centre right values are much more attuned to working class people than they are to the upper middle classes and the trump campaign symbolizes that. It’s changing.”
He praised Trump’s work ethic and joked: “The British royal family could learn an awful lot from the Trumps.”
