FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP IS SET TO MAKE AN APPEARANCE IN NEBRASKA THIS FRIDAY. THE STRAIGHT ARROW NEWS TEAM AND I ARE GETTING READY TO PROVIDE LIVE AND ON THE GROUND COVERAGE OF THE RALLY. BUT FIRST, HERE’S A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND ON WHAT BRINGS TRUMP TO THE MIDWEST.

SINCE LEAVING OFFICE, TRUMP HAS HELD MAJOR INFLUENCE IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. TAKE HIS ENDORSEMENT OF J.D. VANCE’S SENATE CAMPAIGN IN OHIO EARLIER THIS MONTH, VANCE SAW HIS SUPPORT JUMP BY OVER 10 PERCENTAGE POINTS IN A FOX POLL.

AND BACK IN OCTOBER OF 2021, TRUMP HAD ENDORSED REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE CHARLES HERBSTER IN THE NEBRASKA GUBERNATORIAL RACE.

HERBSTER MADE MILLIONS AS CEO OF THE CATTLE BREEDING COMPANY HERBSTER ANGUS FARMS, SETTING A NEW WORLD RECORD BY SPENDING OVER ONE AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS ON THE HIGHEST-SELLING BEEF BULL IN HISTORY.

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HE WENT ON TO CHAIR TRUMP’S AGRICULTURE AND RURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND SERVED AS A CLOSE ADVISOR TO THE FORMER PRESIDENT.

HOWEVER MORE RECENTLY, HERBSTER’S CAMPAIGN HAS BEEN MARRED BY SEXUAL MISCONDUCT ALLEGATIONS AGAINST HIM BY EIGHT DIFFERENT WOMEN, INCLUDING NEBRASKA STATE SENATOR JULIE SLAMA.

HERBSTER HAS DENIED ANY WRONGDOING AND FILED A LAWSUIT AGAINST SLAMA.

Herbster SOT: “I have never and never will act in the way that these accusations last week were leveled at me.”

TRUMP ANNOUNCED HIS RALLY IN NEBRASKA JUST DAYS AFTER THOSE ALLEGATIONS WERE MADE PUBLIC.

BILLED AS A “SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER,” HERBSTER IS SET TO APPEAR WITH TRUMP AT FRIDAY’S RALLY, AS THE FORMER COMMANDER IN CHIEF ATTEMPTS TO FURTHER SOLIDIFY HIS POSITION AS A GOP TASTEMAKER.

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