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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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David Smith in Washington

Trump campaign announcement deepens Republicans’ civil war

Donald Trump gestures after announcing he is running for president at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida.
Donald Trump gestures after announcing he is running for president at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. Photograph: Andrew Harnik/AP

Mike Lindell was full of passionate intensity. Wandering the white and gold ballroom of the Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, the mustachioed pillow-maker predicted that Donald Trump’s candidacy for the White House would clear the Republican field.

“After he announces today, I think [Florida governor] Ron DeSantis will end up just endorsing him,” Lindell, a rabid Trump cheerleader and conspiracy theorist, told the Guardian early on Tuesday evening. “I can’t imagine anybody wasting the time, effort and money of the people. We need to unite our country and there’s only man who can do that and he’ll be up on that stage. Period.”

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