Time magazine has revealed its “100 Most Influential People” for 2016, and Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors, an alumnus of Davidson College, is one of them. South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is another.
And, of course, there’s Donald Trump — whose profile in the Time feature was written by Republican U.S. Rep. Renee Ellmers of North Carolina’s 2nd Congressional District.
Ellmers revealed on March 15, the day of North Carolina’s primary, that she had voted for Trump in the GOP presidential race. Six days later, she met with Trump and became the first woman in Congress to endorse his candidacy.
“Frankly, the U.S. is in desperate need of a leader like Trump who isn’t afraid to challenge the status quo and ruffle the appropriate feathers in order to get our country back on the right track,” Ellmers writes in the Time piece.
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Time reached out to Ellmers about doing the writeup last week, said Patrick Sebastian, Ellmers’ campaign spokesman.
“I think in a lot of ways they have similarities,” Sebastian said Thursday in an interview. “They both got into politics as outsiders. Both are not afraid to take on the establishment in Washington, and not afraid to shake things up.”
The list is chosen each year as a way to “step back and measure the forces that move us,” Time managing editor Nancy Gibbs says on the site revealing the 100 selections. Of the choices, she said, “One way or another they each embody a breakthrough: they broke the rules, broke the record, broke the silence, broke the boundaries to reveal what we’re capable of.”
Read the Trump profile at nando.com/trumptime.
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