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7 governors sign letter backing Trump for Nobel Peace Prize
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster and a group of fellow governors are backing President Donald Trump’s nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.
The wrote to Norwegian Nobel Committee chairman Berit Reiss-Andersen, citing what they called Trump’s “transformative efforts to bring peace to the Korean peninsula.”
Earlier this month, 18 U.S. House Republicans formally nominated Trump, who’s preparing for a historic summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.
McMaster was an early Trump supporter in the 2016 election.
Trump has backed him in next month’s five-way South Carolina GOP primary.
Other signatories include:
• Guam Gov. Eddie Baza Calvo
• Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant
• Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer
• Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey
• West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice
• Maine Gov. Paul LePage.
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