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Reed Sorenson's car will support Donald Trump at Texas
Premium Motorsports is getting political at Texas Motor Speedway on Sunday.
The team, which fields backmarker cars in the Sprint Cup Series, will support Donald Trump’s presidential campaign on Reed Sorenson’s No. 55. Premium posted images of the car to its Facebook page Wednesday.
We’ve reached out to Premium asking if the team is self-funding the wrap for the car and if it had been in contact with Trump’s campaign.
It’s not the first time a team in NASCAR has supported Trump’s candidacy, though it’s the first time the support has been shown in the Cup Series. Two weeks ago at Talladega, a Camping World Truck Series team ran a Trump/Pence paint scheme.
The paint scheme for the car, which has been largely unsponsored in 2016, will be very well received at Texas over the weekend. Earlier this year, the track hosted the Duck Commander 500. Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson gave the prayer before the race and prayed for a “Jesus man” to occupy the White House.
Robertson was supporting Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R), at the time. He’s since switched his support to Trump.
Unsurprisingly, Trump’s campaign has been advertising more than rival Hillary Clinton’s during Cup Series races. Over the past four Cup races (according to CawsNJaws.com), there have been seven ads from the Trump campaign or supporting his candidacy vs. one for Clinton.
People who aren’t voting for Trump are going to hope Sorenson’s chances of winning Sunday are a metaphor for Trump’s chances in Tuesday’s presidential election. Sorenson has finished in the top 30 three times in 25 races for Premium Motorsports and his best finish was a 22nd at Daytona in July.
In 2004, Kirk Shelmerdine put his support for George W. Bush’s re-election campaign on the side of his car. A complaint was filed with the Federal Election Commission about Shelmerdine’s use of the campaign logo on his car, saying that he failed to report the independent expenditure. The FEC ruled there was reason to believe there might have been a violation but didn’t punish Shelmerdine outside of an admonishment letter.
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