are hard-working Americans young and old who
love choppers,” Mondo tells us. “I still build a lot of
Springer front ends that go all over the world.”
As far as retirement goes, Mondo says although he’s
in his 70s now, he’s loving it more every day as the
bikes get better with every build. “That makes it all
worthwhile and exciting to come to work every day,”
he says. “I don't want to ever retire. I’m having too
much fun building bikes and hot rods. My running
joke is that if you ever find me in my shop bent over
my welding table with my hood on and the part
finished, I was working on, I died a happy man.”
When asked about his loyalty to Donald Trump,
Mondo lights up. He says he has a shrine to the
President at his shop. “I believe he really is going to
drain the swamp in Washington,” Mondo says. “We
need a businessman who can come into this mess
from the outside and make changes as no career
politician can. He has done so many amazing things
that you never hear about in the fake news media.”
Bikers are a very loyal and patriotic bunch and there
are millions of them all across America who share
Mondo’s sentiments. One such patriot is Chris Cox,
who started Bikers for Trump back in 2014. Bikers
for Trump originally stated that its goal was “to
bring together like-minded patriots for the sole
purpose of electing Donald Trump for President
of the United States.”
That message definitely served its purpose and
achieved its avowed goal, Donald J. Trump now
standing as the President after leaving the pollsters
and pundits with their jaws dropped down to their
knees. And if you listened closely, you could have
heard a deep rumbling as a background soundtrack,
the music of masses of motorcycles rallying to the
campaign. And the man who orchestrated that
symphony of nationwide biker support was indeed
Chris Cox. It took clocking 50,000 miles across the
country in a raggedy trailer and sleeping in Walmart
parking lots, all on his own nickel.
“First, I drove all around Virginia and North Carolina
sort of checking the political temperature, stopping
at biker bars with a few bumper stickers I had printed,
then started a dialogue over a cold beer, and always
within minutes, people were talking about Trump,”
Chris recalls. “Then I went to social media and it took
off from there.”
That’s a bit of an understatement of the time, sheer
grit and determination Chris put into his plan, to
not only elect a President he believed in but also
to champion and empower bikers and veterans all
across the country.
Chris threw his first rally in Virginia Beach at a bar
called Bone Shakers, and it turned out bone-shaking
cold and rainy plus the local team was playing a
Super Bowl playoff. Several hundred bikers still
showed up and it was spotlighted with TV coverage
that reached several hundred thousand people. The
ball was rolling. Chris got back on the road, setting up
rallies wherever he could.
That first rally would eventually grow into a
cavalcade of several thousand Bikers for Trump who
rumbled into Cleveland for the Republican National
Convention. “We were there to make sure that the
delegates were allowed to exercise their right to
peacefully assemble. We had bikers coming in groups
from all over the country, anywhere from a thousand
to 10,000. What we had in common was that we were
all citizen crusaders from all walks of life. We came
there to stand with law enforcement, with veterans,
with the working man to collectively get behind
Donald Trump elected as President.”
Chris had an amazing turnout at Daytona Bike Week
in Florida after several weeks on the road when
he secured a spot at the No Name Saloon, a biker
bar with serious history. “I knew this would be my
coming-out party so to speak because of the big
collection of bikers.”
While Chris was initially handling the speaker’s role,
later he was able to bring in heavy hitters such as
New Hampshire State House Representative and
Veterans for Trump spokesman Al Baldasaro as well
as Governor Henry McMaster who spoke at the last
South Carolina rally and also ex-New York Mayor
Giuliani who would speak to the 3,000 bikers that
attended the last rally staged in Homosassa.
After the rally successes in Florida, and Fox News
giving Bikers for Trump major national coverage,
Chris set his sights on the national primaries, starting
up in New York. “It’s one of the most liberal areas in
the world, and we were going to show them what we
got,” Chris said. “I was going there because all the
other candidates were there, but I was also going
there because Trump was not. In fact, I deliberately
put on the rallies when he wasn’t around, because
anybody could build a rally if Trump was there. I
wanted to build a crowd without Trump to highlight
how popular he really was and also how enthusiastic
bikers were about the election.”
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