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Real estate agent Charlie Jenkins, 52, also agreed to send a message to Farage despite having never heard of him. 

“It’s so important for our overseas allies to support what’s going on as the Republican party is changing,” she said, wearing a black flat cap backwards and handing out Trump stickers.

The Republican presidential candidate drew tens of thousands of devotees this weekend for his comeback rally at the scene of his July 13 assassination attempt. | Scott Olson/Getty Images

As the darkness fell and Trump continued to speak from the stage, supporters started to leave in order to avoid the inevitable traffic gridlock. One woman in a sequined cowboy hat searched a stack of camping chairs for the set she left in the pile. “I’m voting for the felon,” her t-shirt read.

Before Trump disappeared and the homeward rush began, POLITICO at last found one person, hobbling along in the twilight, who had heard of Farage: Patrick Mangan. 

“His movement in getting out of the European Union was the same kind of populist movement we’re having here right now,” said the 66-year-old former political adviser.

Mangan’s “Keep America Great” polo shirt stretched around his stomach. “Jesus is my savior; Trump is my president,” his cap proclaimed. He leaned deep on his crutch and warned about the threat of civil war if the election is “stolen” from Trump.

But his message to Farage was one of reassurance: “The great populist movements of Trump, in South America, and in Europe, are alive and well.”

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