>Former UKip leader Nigel Farage and Leave backer Arron Banks have just returned from California, where they helped raise $1million (£800,000) for a 'Calexit' campaign, which would split the state in two
>If broken apart, the eastern part of California would more likely vote Republican, giving the party two more senators and electoral college votes for a 2020 presidential election.
>Farage and Banks' goal is to hold a referendum during the US midterm elections in 2018
>It would be portrayed as the Hollywood elites versus the people, breaking up the bad government. Seventy-eight per cent of people in California are unhappy with their government. It's the world's sixth largest economy and it's very badly run.'
>The pair were recruited for the campaign by polling expert Gerry Gunster and Republican Scott Baugh, a former member of the state assembly.
>'This has been done before with West Virginia and Virginia and North and South Dakota, so it can work,' he said.
>“Calexit” as it’s being dubbed, was first drummed up by liberals and the Hollywood elite in Los Angeles who became disgusted with US President Donald Trump and suggested they break away from the rest of America.
>However after the everyday man and woman in the state got wind of it, they got angry at the liberals, and now want the state to be divided to get away from them.
>He said: “They feel they’ve been left out since Reagan…They believe now Trump has won this is their chance.”
>And as they plot Calexit it is said to have the private support of at least two Republican governors.
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