1. He was not my top choice by any stretch (I wasn't even convinced he would stay in the race if he lost some early primaries).
2. I really started to warm up to him with some of his zany antics during the primary campaign (the infamous "John Miller" story from 1991 that made national headlines in May 2016 was a real turning point for me).
3. By the time he was nominated I was 100% behind him.
4. I had several business trips around the heartland of the U.S. from August to late October of 2016. I attended a couple of Trump rallies in that time. For the first time in my life I was watching a presidential candidate who was riding a political and cultural tsunami that was sweeping across this nation's interior.
5. By the end of October 2016 he became the first political candidate -- at any level -- that I've ever financially supported in my life.
6. I'm a stronger Trump supporter today than I was on Election Day in 2016 ... and statements like this one about the U.S. Supreme Court are perfect illustrations of why this is so.
What John Miller story?
I thank all of you who did.
My wife and I donated hundreds of dollars to Ted Cruz; who was the first (as I recall) to announce. I told my wife that Ted would be our likely best last chance. We donated within two weeks or so of his announcement.
When Donald Trump announced, we were both encouraged and humored with his entry. His words were right on target and he was enough of an outsider to really complicate life for Hillary and RINOs. Within a couple of weeks, we sent in the same amount to Trump as we had with Cruz.
We received opportunities to meet Cruz and his wife and separate occasions, but turned them down. We had settled on Donald, and we weren’t going to help the well-intensioned Cruz, again.
MAGA. It’s a movement but it needed the warrior to enunciate it & to lead the change, and the mastermind to pull it off. I am grateful to have been and to still part of the saving of America. Thanks for your post.