Donald Trump Jr.
fires up local GOP
Reggie Reid
Photos by Todd Lock
Donald Trump
Jr. speaks at the
Forsyth County
Republican Party
office as Mark
Geist looks on
last week.
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
Donald Trump Jr. ral
lied the faithful at the
Forsyth County
Republican Party office
last week.
Trump Jr.- who
appeared with Benghazi
survivor Mark Geist -
stopped by the office on
Thursday, Oct. 13, to thank
volunteers who were mak
ing calls in a phone bank
for his father, Republican
presidential candidate
Donald Trump. He said
Trump's business expertise
and lack of political experi
ence are what Washington
needs. He said it was patri
otism that drove his father
to run.
"If there's one person
who doesn't need this job,
it's him," said Trump Jr.
"But he's doing it because
he loves this country."
Trump Jr. did not
specifically mention the
recently released 2005 tape
of his father bragging
about groping women.
Trump Sr. has denied hav
ing actually done the things
he talked about, though
several women have come
out and accused him of
sexual assault.
Trump Jr. did say the
media "picked sides a long
time ago" and is against
Trump Sr.
"It's not a fair fight, it
never will be because
we're not just campaigning
against a candidate. It
would be over by now if
we were campaigning
against that candidate
[Hillary Clinton], especial
ly with her record," said
Trump Jr.
Studies have shown
that Trump got as much
coverage in the primary as
all 16 of his opponents
combined. Trump relied on
that coverage, instead of
buying ads and other forms
of traditional campaigning,
to soundly win the nomina
tion.
The intensive coverage
of Trump hasn't yielded the
same results in the General
Election, as he's tended to
trail Democrat Hillary
Clinton in most national
polls. The Trump campaign
started major fundraising
initiatives and ad cam
paigns in recent months.
Trump Jr. still described it
as a "lean campaign" ver
sus Clinton's "big
machine."
Trump Jr. criticized the
media for not giving
enough coverage to the
revelations about Clinton
in the emails recently
released by WikiLeaks.
The Clinton campaign is
not authenticating the
emails, and keeps asking if
there's a connection
between Trump and
Russia, who U.S. intelli
gence officials believe is
responsible for the email
hacks. Trump Jr. denied
ahy connection between
his father and Russia.
Trump Jr. said the
enthusiasm for his father is
being underreported. He
said that it's not a cam
paign, but a "movement,"
He called the election a
"referendum for change."
The standing room only
crowd at the office was
very receptive to Tramp Jr.
as he talked about eliminat
ing "insane and disgusting"
regulation on businesses.
He also said if Clinton
was elected, she would
appoint liberal justices that
would turn the country
toward socialism.
Geist, a member of the
security team that fought at
the Benghazi diplomatic
annex, bldmed Clinton for
the attack, which happened
when she was secretary of
state. He accused her of
putting people in harm's
way for personal gain.
"She did it so she could
have a foreign policy win,
come 2016 to become the
next president, and she lost
lives doing it because she
didn't care," he said.
Numerous congres
sional investigations into
Benghazi determined there
were failures on the part of
the State Department, but
didn't find Clinton culpa
ble.
Attendee Reggie Reid
said Trump Jr. was a great
surrogate for this father. He
said the phone banking for
Trump has been going
well.
*" "I think he's getting a
lot of local support even
with the so-called allega
tions," said Reid.
Local GOP Vice Chair
Linda Petrou said that
though they've had no
shortage of volunteers for
their phone banks, she was
glad to see Trump Jr. fire
up the local base.
"When people get an
opportunity tb meet some
one like that, they get much
more enthusiastic," said
Petrou.
Linda Petrou
Public invited for renaming ceremony
for section of Business 40 highway
SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE
Transportation officials and local dignitaries will
announce the new name of a 20-mile portion of the his
toric Business 40 highway between 1-40 east of
Kernersville and 1-40 west during a ground-breaking cer
emony for the Business 40 Improvement Project in
Winston-Salem.
The public is invited to join elected officials and the
NCDOT to celebrate at 9 ajn. on Friday, Oct. 21 at the
Green Street Bridge parking lot at BB&T Ballpark.
In November 2015, a name nomination period began
and by January 2016, we received 1,889 nominations.
In March 2016, a selection committee chose four
final names from the long list:
?Golden Leaf Parkway
?Innovation Parkway
?Piedmont Corridor
?Salem Parkway
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