Donald Trump seeks winning tactics of Brexiteers

When Donald Trump tweeted last week: "They will soon be calling me MR. BREXIT!", he may have already known that the Real Mr Brexit was heading his way.

On Wednesday, Nigel Farage will appear at a Trump rally in America to talk about how the "anti-establishment beat the establishment" to bring about Brexit.

Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Nigel Farage's referendum campaign have things in common:

  • Both rely on anti-establishment sentiment

  • Both are outsiders

  • Both use the issue of limiting immigration prominently in their campaigns

What Trump will want to find out is how the UK's Brexit team - consistently behind in the polls in the run up to the vote - went on to win.

It's something Farage told me he was ready and willing to share. "I won't endorse him," he told me from Jackson, Mississippi. "How can I when I condemned Obama for interfering in UK politics?"

With Donald Trump way behind his rival Hilary Clinton in the polls, there is no doubt that he will be hoping for the some lessons on how Nigel Farage and Co swept the Leave campaign out in front.

Namely, motivating new voters to get out to the booths, and exploiting the complacency of the Remain team and their voters who expected to win.

Donald Trump was a vocal supporter of Brexit Credit: PA

Trump had been vocally supportive of the UK to leave the European Union, deeming it a "great thing" and a successful attempt by citizens to take "the country back."

At the time he said: "People are angry all over the world."

He repeatedly refers to his rise and his growing anti-establishment support as a "movement."

This will be an attempt by both men to hammer home their outsider advantage.

In the face of an establishment who underestimated Farage, they may well make the same mistake with Trump.