WASHINGTON – “Can a Maga girl with a British accent become famous in America?” This week, a seasoned Washington observer ponders the prospects of Lizzie Truss and her book tour to the United States. This is an open question.
Her memoir goes on sale here Tuesday and she is preparing to promote it relentlessly, especially among staunch supporters of former President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” campaign, who increasingly see her as a fellow traveler .
But by portraying herself as a dyed-in-the-wool Trumper, she has alienated Republican moderates, who have no plans to help her sell books next week. I It is understood that a prominent moderate Republican think tank rejected Truss’ request to attend the meeting.
Nikki Haley, Trump’s former rival in the race for the party nomination, was also conspicuously absent from the hubbub over the book.Times have changed since June 2022, when the former US ambassador to the United Nations rushed to London to ensure Pictured with Trussfeeling that they were both poised to become leaders of their respective countries.
Might Trump warm to Truss and invite her to speak at the Republican nominating convention in Milwaukee in July?
Dr. Shea Bradley-Farrell, president of the Counterpoint Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to amplifying conservative voices in U.S. foreign policy debates, expressed skepticism, saying Truss was critical of Trump. The role of the campaign team will be limited.
“Nigel Farage is much more famous in the US,” she told us I.
John Gizzi, chief political columnist for right-leaning Newsmax TV and a veteran of the U.S. convention scene, believes Truss has learned more from America than from her.
“Liz Truss has smelled the MAGA movement in the US and will try to follow it, perhaps sensing it might come to the UK one day,” he told us I. “There will be some interest [in the book] Because of who she is, but as for what she has to say, I suspect many American readers, especially Magathite readers, have heard it said before, in different tones, by American writers. “
He acknowledged that there was a short-term opportunity for Truss to generate some financial returns in the United States. “We’ve seen Boris Johnson receive five-figure payments for speaking engagements and book signings,” he said. But he believes Truss received only 0.29% of the advance for Johnson’s memoir in the UK and that she would have struggled to secure a full-time speaking or television career in the US. “After all,” he said, “we’re talking about a man who is barely remembered at the moment.”
Truss has spent the past few months trying to convince Americans that she should be remembered for more than just her failure to outlast a lettuce political life. Sadly for Truss, many Americans remember Lettuce but not the former prime minister.
Her efforts to turn that around will begin next Monday in Washington. The “official launch” of her book in the U.S. market took place at the Heritage Foundation, long considered the intellectual foundation of the American conservative movement.
Kevin Roberts, president of the foundation, will introduce her and has been talking about the memoir in recent weeks. Roberts called her “a rare figure in today’s political arena” and said the former prime minister was “a truly principled and committed leader who is willing to stand up and fight for policies that truly advance freedom.” He said her message “should be heard on Capitol Hill and in the White House.”
In a Biden White House, the chances of that happening are slim. (“I think Joe Biden needs to be kicked out of the White House. I think that’s crucial for the future of the West,” Truss said recently on British news). But on Capitol Hill, Trump-backed Republicans are embracing her. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Mike Lee, R-Utah, released blurbs for Truss’ book (“The odds are against us, but Truss Know what’s worth fighting for”) (“Truss is a true conservative activist who has supported Truss”). at the highest level on the world stage” and “will be a leader in this fight for years to come”).
Truss’s U.S. media blitz will seek to leverage the presence of a range of conservative media outlets that have a loyal following of viewers, listeners and readers sympathetically listening to her newly defined worldview.
During an interview with Fox News at a London studio on Wednesday, she attracted Entertainment on social media Because she failed to hold up the book correctly in front of the camera. When she makes media appearances after arriving on U.S. shores, she is expected to double down on her assertion at the Conservative Political Action Conference (Cpac) in Washington in February that “unless conservatives become more vocal… Western civilization Doomed.”
“There are very few people from across the ocean who make an impression here,” Gizzi said. “There really hasn’t been much since Margaret Thatcher.
“Who could pull the heartstrings of the burgeoning MAGA movement? Well, it might as well be Liz Truss, who paid the ultimate price for wanting to lower taxes and deal with spending, at least here Think so.”
Truss, who has been at pains to encourage sympathy for her expulsion from No 10, insisted at CPAC that she had been “operating in a hostile environment” and “faced criticism from the media, the Bank of England and others” strong opposition.” Even Biden.
“I look at her and respect what she does,” Dr. Bradley-Farrell said. “Certainly she is well-respected in conservative circles who know her.”
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