Former President Donald Trump speaks during the 'Save America' rally at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds on January 29, 2022 in Conroe, Texas.
Trump's visit was his first Texas MAGA rally since 2019. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images) Donald Trump spent months persuading a longtime ally to challenge Georgia's sitting Republican governor.
This week, he gave David Perdue another boost, orchestrating a deal for a rival to drop his campaign and instead run for Congress with the former president's coveted endorsement."He said, ‘Listen, you have an opportunity. (What you could) do in the state level, you can do for this country,'" the candidate, Vernon Jones, said in an interview recalling his conversation with Trump. "And obviously he said I would have his support, because we share the same agenda."Trump is attempting a similar strategy in other states.
In North Carolina, for instance, he has pressed another Senate candidate to drop out and run for Congress. He is shopping for a Senate hopeful to back in New Hampshire.