DERRY, N.H. – “Vote for Trump, solve your problems.”
That’s the message former President Donald Trump wrote on a commemorative poster Monday as he filed to appear on New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation Republican primary ballot, joining six other GOP candidates who’ve signed up.
For Trump supporters waiting 29 miles away at the New England Sports Center in Derry, New Hampshire, where the businessman was slated to speak hours later, it was more than just a quip. It served as a rallying cry and a key reason they planned to back the businessman-turned-presidential candidate in the primary later this year.
Many voters USA TODAY spoke with in line for the event said they favored Trump in the 2024 race both despite and because of indictments in four ongoing criminal trials against him.
“He’s the only man to do the job that’s in front of us,” said Chris Wood, a 65-year-old child support officer from Concord, New Hampshire.
Wood was standing near the front of a line that stretched the length of the indoor sports complex.
“I won’t stand for anybody being persecuted the way he’s been persecuted. He doesn’t deserve it. The least I can do is give him my vote, but damn, he’s getting it,” she said.
Trump’s filing and rally came just days after he received grim news in his Fulton County, Georgia case related to an alleged conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Two of his former attorneys, Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro, cut plea deals in the…
