Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law had been hotly tipped to run for elected office but after she was called up on stage by the former president she announced she would not run.

“It is no for now, not no forever,” she said as she explained she had a young family to look after instead of entering politics.

Instead, Mr Trump announced that he was endorsing congressman Ted Budd “as your next senator.”

“This is a complete, and total endorsement,” he added.

“We are going to win North Carolina’s all important US Senate race and lay the groundwork to make sure Republicans carry the great state of North Carolina in a year I look forward to, 2024,” said Mr Trump.

“We are going to do numbers you have never seen before. I stand before you today confident that the people of North Carolina will decisively reject Joe Biden and the radical Democrats.”

“If I had a face like him I would have been president 20 years earlier,” said Mr Trump as he called him out in the audience.

“Our country is being destroyed before our very own eyes, crime is exploding, police departments are being ripped apart and defunded,” said Mr Trump.

“They (Democrats) are vicious, they are violent, in many cases they hate our country and they have bad policy, but the bad newsroom out standpoint is they stick together, that is the one thing they have.

“We are going to have a tremendous 2022 like we did frankly in 2020, more votes than any sitting President in the history of the us . We had a great election, bad things happened but we had great election.”

“We are going to take back our country and take it back at a level that is very good for our country and our citizens, we cannot let bad things happen to our country and bad bad things are happening to us perhaps like never before,” said Mr Trump.

Lee Greenwood’s God Bless the USA is booming out from the speakers and the arrival of the 45th president of the United States is imminent.

We now have Frank Sinatra’s I Did It My Way as part of Mr Trump’s revamped musical warmup.

Apparently it is sung in the hit musical about a character’s “melancholic remembrance of her glamorous past and as a plea for acceptance.” Now we have My Heart Will Go On, the theme from Titanic. These are both new additions to the soundtrack I believe.

Sounds like the former president may be close to taking the stage, but we are still waiting for Lee Greenwood’s God Bless the USA to start playing…

Bobby Hanig, a representative in North Carolina’s legislature, arrived at the state GOP convention wearing a jacket covered with images of Donald Trump.