NC House Speaker Moore, who may run for Congress, endorses Trump
North Carolina Republican House Speaker Tim Moore, who is considering a run for Congress, endorsed former President Donald Trump on Wednesday.
Trump is running again for president in 2024 in a crowded GOP primary field that includes his former vice president, Mike Pence, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Trump is the current frontrunner, even as he faces criminal charges.
“Unequivocally, I’m supporting President Trump,” Moore told The News & Observer on Wednesday at the Legislative Building, before a House session.
Moore said that he thinks things were better nationally and in the world when Trump was president, saying there are more conflicts worldwide under President Joe Biden.
The 2024 election is shaping up to be a rematch between Biden and Trump.
“Nationally, the economy was so much stronger when he was president. Internationally, we had peace. Now we have conflict everywhere. It all started with President Biden, with how he withdrew our troops from Afghanistan.
“Some folks didn’t like President Trump, didn’t like his style. But it’s really hard to argue with the results, the fact that the economy was stronger, even having gone through COVID,” Moore said.
“The fact that we were on an international stage, it was some of the greatest time of peace we’ve had. The border wall was being constructed, that we actually had a border that was truly being secure in a significant way,” he said. Moore is going to the United States-Mexico border on Saturday and said he is concerned about drugs being brought across the border with people entering the country illegally.
“All of these things together, and I just look and I say, the job that President Trump did, and compare that with the awful job that President Biden is doing right now, and it was a no-brainer,” Moore said.
Trump is currently on trial for fraud in a civil case accusing him of exaggerating his real estate holdings. Trump is also facing four upcoming criminal prosecutions in New York, Florida, Georgia and Washington, according to the Associated Press.
The N&O asked Moore what he thought about Trump’s role in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and attempt to overturn the election of Biden, as well as Trump’s denial of the 2020 election results after Biden won.
Trump and 18 other people are charged in an illegal scheme in Georgia trying to overturn the election, the Associated Press reported.
“Jan. 6 was was very unfortunate. And those who committed a breach, committed the breach of the trust and breach of the Capitol grounds, you know, they’re having to pay the price for that. And that’s just the way it is,” Moore said.
Moore said people that destroyed property in the George Floyd protests and rioting in 2020 should be prosecuted as well.
“I think there’s a lot of political hyperbole that’s floating around out there (about Jan. 6). I think any individuals who go in and stormed the Capitol building are responsible for their actions, period. And that’s all unfortunate, and they have to be held accountable for what they do,” he said.
Moore said that he’s “looking at the qualities of what he did as the president of the United States and what I know he would do if he came back in office again.”
Moore said he’ll make a decision in the coming weeks about running for Congress. Under the new congressional maps expected to be passed by the General Assembly Wednesday, Democratic U.S. Rep. Jeff Jackson’s district was redrawn to favor a Republican. The district includes Moore’s Cleveland County home.
Republican House Majority Leader John Bell, of Wayne County, and other state lawmakers have endorsed DeSantis in the primary.
This story was originally published October 25, 2023 at 3:46 PM.
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