Stand back, New Hampshire—Donald Trump is bringing in the big guns.
Former Massachusetts senator Scott P. Brown, a moderate Republican who two years ago ran for Senate in New Hampshire, will endorse Donald Trump at rally here Tuesday night, one week before the state’s presidential primary.
Smooth move, that. When appealing to New Hampshire voters, who better to vouch for Donald Trump than an out-of-state carpetbagger who himself ran for office in the state and lost?
[Brown's] profile and personality, however, are blue collar and populist. He drove a pickup truck during his Senate bids and is a habitué of Cheap Trick concerts.
To give you an idea of Scott Brown's impact on the political landscape, note that to this day he is known primarily as the guy who owns a pickup truck. Not for legislation, or for policy pronouncements, or deep thoughts on which state he might or might not consider home at any particular time, but for being The Guy Who Drives A Truck. We ask very little of our leaders here in America. We simply want to imagine what it would be like to have a beer with them, or know that if we ran into them on the street they would have a vehicle capable of delivering a couch.
On the endorsement front, Brown is the first U.S. senator, current or former, to formally back Trump.
We kid, but if you're either Sen. Marco Rubio or Sen. Ted Cruz this has to sting a little. Even you, Scott Brown?
At a January event in Portsmouth, N.H., Trump said Brown was cut out of “central casting” and could be his vice-presidential pick.
There you go. And in other news, Scott Brown still exists. Go figure.