CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ For many Fox TV viewers, former Matthews Mayor Shawn Lemmond will be the uninvited guest at Saturday' star-spangled Salute to America event with President Donald Trump.
Lemmond will be featured in an ad during the Fourth of July spectacular for "Republican Voters Against Trump," a group spending $1 million on cable and digital ads in the state this week.
"The Republican Party that I knew and loved was an honorable party," Lemmond says in the ad. "What's taken over our party is wrong. And as a Republican, as a Christian, we simply cannot allow this man to be reelected."