We're told that a "farmers for Donald Trump" rally is being planned for Thursday in Sasser, Ga., a small community not far from Albany in southwest Georgia.
Trump will not be there. Jon Jackson, a disabled vet featured in the Youtube video above, is being advertised as one of the speakers.
Beyond that, we’re short of detail, but it appears to be happening on the edge of the 33rd annual Georgia Farmers Conference, which is meeting Thursday and Friday in Albany, sponsored by a group that supports black farmers. How it’s being sold to us: “Should be biggest political event that part of the state has seen in a long while.”
It's possible that a post from December will be a topic of conversation. It started like this:
Trump has been a man of last resort before. Right here in Georgia, in fact. And if his Republican presidential machine doesn't seize upon the tale in the next few weeks, as he and U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas battle for Southern votes, then someone in the Trump campaign will be guilty of gross incompetence.
It happened in 1986, in the midst of the worst farm crisis since the Great Depression. In Burke County, on Georgia's eastern border, farm after farm was folding.
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