India, Aug. 5 -- US President Donald Trump threw his support behind Missouri state Senator Rick Brattin on the eve of Tuesday's Republican primary, an eleventh-hour intervention in a newly redrawn Kansas City-area district that stood apart from most of his other endorsements this cycle, which had typically arrived weeks or months earlier.

Trump announced his decision on Truth Social a little over twelve hours before polls opened, according to the Associated Press via kdhnews.com, calling Brattin a "MAGA Warrior" and writing, "Rick Brattin has my Complete and Total Endorsement to be the next Representative from Missouri's 5th Congressional District - RICK WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!"

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