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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's Favorite Pastor Wants to Run for Congress to Help Purge 'Backstabbing' Republicans
Darrell C. Scott has been taking more and more meetings lately, including with Corey Lewandowski and Donald Trump Jr., on his dream of going to Washington as a Trump guy.
LACHLAN MARKAY
ASAWIN SUEBSAENG
11.13.17 5:00 AM ET
One of Donald Trumps favorite pastors is laying the groundwork for a potential congressional run in Ohioand he wants to do it on an exclusively pro-Trump platform.
For months, Darrell Scott, a 58-year-old, Cleveland-area pastor and alumnus of Trumps presidential transition team, has been mulling a primary challenge to Rep. David Joyce (R-OH) in the upcoming midterms. Recently, however, he has made more serious strides, rather than merely toying with the idea.
Scott says he still texts with Steve Bannon, Trumps former top strategist, about a potential run, and that Fox News host Sean Hannity, whom he calls his good buddy, has shown an interest in him running. The pastor said he had a private, two-hour meeting with Corey Lewandowski, Trumps one-time campaign manager, last week to discuss his political ambitions. Hes talked to members of the RNC and the Ohio GOP to take their temperature on his possible candidacy. Scott has also been attempting to line up potential donors and high-profile endorsers should he decide to challenge Joyce, whom he calls anti-Trump and Do Nothin Dave.
Scott told The Daily Beast that he already has the support of several members of President Trumps family, and that his main motivation to run would be that the president needs more support in Congress. In fact, if he were to win election, he said he would stop serving in Congress once Trump left his office too.
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Trump's Favorite Pastor Wants to Run for Congress to Help Purge 'Backstabbing' Republicans (Original Post)
DonViejo
Nov 2017
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CurtEastPoint
(18,656 posts)1. how fucking sad. Another POC duped into kissing that fuckstick's ass.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)2. Go for it, Darrell
Hey, DNCC, I'm sensing there may be another flippable seat in Ohio. Let's get a good, credible candidate recruited in OH-14.