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Former President Donald Trump has once again hit the campaign trail as he attempts to secure the 2024 GOP nomination, and is return began with a pair of lower-key events on Saturday in New Hampshire and South Carolina.
During a visit to the latter, Trump stopped by a small eatery to grab a bite to eat when an encounter with one of the establishment’s staff went viral on social media.
The 45th president is seen approaching the counter to order when the woman asks him if she can pray for him.
“Yes, go ahead, go ahead and do that,” the former president said, taking her hand in his right hand and placing his left hand on her shoulder.
“That’s so awesome! That’s what we need, someone to pray over us someone to tell us that things will get better if we put our trust and faith in God! Bless this young woman for praying for our President,” one user responded.
That's so awesome! That's what we need, someone to pray over us someone to tell us that things will get better if we put our trust and faith in God! Bless this young woman for praying for our President 🙏
— 🌹Wanda Miller🇺🇸🌹 (@wandalou58) January 29, 2023
“Beautiful,” another user wrote.
“One reason why America was and will always be good. Without a secure moral basis we are at great risk of being manipulated by powerful forces out for themselves. So that’s their first target,” wrote another user.
“South Carolina is now my favorite state!” said another.
“God’s blessings pursue this ice cream worker for she is an Ambassador for Jesus Christ!! She is in my prayers! Placing Psalm 91 over our President Trump & his family in Jesus Name Amen,” another remarked.
“God Bless this women [sic] and our FOREVER Favorite & Beloved President!!!!!” added another.
The former president is not only on the campaign trail again, but he is bringing with him the same vitality and can-do attitude he had during his 2016 run, according to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.).
“I spoke with President @realDonaldTrump today in between his two big events in New Hampshire and South Carolina. He sounds amazing!” she wrote on the former president’s Truth Social platform.
“He is fired up! He loves this country!! He is going to win!!! And the GREAT PEOPLE ARE WITH HIM! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN,” she added in a post with several U.S. flag emojis.
Meanwhile, according to CNN, Trump said he is “more committed” to winning back the White House than ever:
Appearing in New Hampshire before a second stop in South Carolina, Trump said he was “more angry” about the direction of the country and vowed to return to the first-in-the-nation primary state “many, many more times” as he looks to replicate his first-place finish in the Granite State in 2016.
“This is it,” Trump told members of the New Hampshire GOP at their annual meeting in Salem. “We’re starting right here as a candidate for president.”
On the way to South Carolina, Trump told reporters aboard his plane that Nikki Haley – the state’s former governor who served as his ambassador to the United Nations – called him in recent days to inform him that she is considering launching a 2024 presidential bid.
“I talked to her for a little while, I said, ‘Look, you know, go by your heart if you want to run,’” Trump said. “She’s publicly said that ‘I would never run against my president, he was a great president.’” CNN noted that Trump also told Haley she “should do it.”
As for Greene, her name continues to surface as a top choice to become Trump’s running mate.
“War Room” podcast host Steve Bannon said in an interview last week with NBC News: “This is no shrinking violet, she’s ambitious — she’s not shy about that, nor should she be. … She sees herself on the shortlist for Trump’s VP.”
When Greene “looks in the mirror, she sees a potential president smiling back,” Bannon noted further.
NBC News added:
A second source who has advised Greene said her “whole vision is to be vice president.” The source, who has ties to Trump but spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations, said he also believes Greene would be on Trump’s short list.
That goal is at the heart of Greene’s recent efforts to rebrand herself as a politician who can stand astride the divide between the party’s hard-liners and its establishment wing, the sources told NBC News.
