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Far-right influencers turn against Trump campaign, threatening a digital “war” against the Republican candidate’s aides and allies
Hard-right provocateurs take aim at how the former president’s aides are positioning him for the November vote - though not at the Republican candidate himself.
Some of the internet’s most influential far-right figures are turning against former president Donald Trump’s campaign, threatening a digital “war” against the Republican candidate’s aides and allies that could complicate the party’s calls for unity in the final weeks of the presidential race. Colin Henry, a researcher at George Washington University who has studied political extremism online, said influencers on the far right have grown visibly frustrated in recent weeks by Trump’s fading performance in the polls and the campaign’s disavowal of hard-line policy proposals, such as Project 2025. On live streams and social media, Fuentes has marshaled his followers to launch what he is calling “Groyper War 2” — a sequel to a series of chaotic spectacles in 2019, during which they appeared en masse at speaking events of people they deemed “fake conservatives” to heckle and pepper them with provocative questions over issues such as race and LGBTQ+ rights.
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