Republicans are concerned Laura Loomer had ‘something to do with’ Trump’s poor debate performance

Some Republicans are concerned that far-right activist Laura Loomer is influencing former President Donald Trump and worry she may have hadsomething to do with his poor debate performance against Vice President Kamala Harris.

Loomer traveled on Trump’s plane on debate day, as well as the next morning, and one person close to the president’s campaign said they’re now afraid that she may be making Trump’s “weaknesses” worse, Semafor reports.

The far-right activist’s possible influence over the former president is getting more scrutiny after Trump repeatedly lost his focus in the face of Harris’s provocations, at one point shouting about rumors that Haitian migrants in Ohio are stealing and eating household pets, without any evidence to back it up.

“Regardless of any guardrails the Trump campaign has put on her, I don’t think it’s working,” the Trump insider told the outlet.

The New York Times reported last year that Trump told his staff to give Loomer a position on the campaign but backtracked when Republicans shared their concerns.

Loomer has become well known for her incendiary behavior, once protesting her Twitter ban by handcuffing herself to the New York offices of the social media company while wearing a yellow Jewish star as she compared her treatment to the Holocaust. The divisive far-right activist has also said that she’s supportive of white nationalism and insisted the US is a “white Judeo-Christian ethnostate” that is being ruined by diversity.

Republican consultant Dennis Lennox told Semafor, “Trump lost the debate because of his performance or lack thereof.”

“That’s what happens when you wing it, live in the Fox News, X bubble, and rely upon Matt Gaetz, let alone Laura Loomer,” he added.

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