Greetings from Toledo where Pres Trump will hold his first official #KAG rally of 2020. A confident @parscale kicks things off by saying he'd like to "write the state off" & not spend much here
Reminder: Trump won OH by 8 pts in 16 (tho lost this county). Obama won OH in 08 & 12
VP Pence takes the stage in Toledo. Big cheers from crowd when he mentions Soleimani strike and the fact there were no American casualties from the response and "Iran appears to be standing down."
Trump in Toledo. Arena is at capacity, per local officials, with 8000+ but there’s a bit more standing room than usual in the front area
Major interruption and protests at Toledo Trump rally. Appears to be people with white banners that said "NO WAR," among other things. Being escorted out now.
Photos of protest during Trump rally in Toledo. Looks like: “NO WAR” and “RUSSIAN ASS(ET)” and maybe “BONE SPURS”
Trump repeats Soleimani was "actively planning new attacks" and "he was looking seriously at our embassies" and "not just the embassy in Baghdad" but we "stopped him quickly and we stopped him cold"
Trump now attacking "Crazy Bernie" and "Nervous Nancy" for criticizing the strikes in Iraq, then says he didn't "have time" to call up Pelosi ahead of time and accuses her of operating "without a full deck"
As for Schiff, he gets this simple retort: "You. Little. Pencil. Neck!"
This is different: though the crowd usually starts chanting "LOCK HER UP! LOCK HER UP!" at the mention of "Crooked Hillary," President Trump usually leaves it at that.
Tonight, he appeared to say in response: "You should lock her up."
On to the current Democrats running for president: "Pocahontas is slipping badly," "Bernie is crazy but he's surging" & "Biden doesn't know the difference between Iran and Iraq"
President Trump, while talking about immigration, starts mentioning countries like Honduras and Guatemala and someone in the crowd shouts back loudly: "SHITHOLE COUNTRIES! SHITHOLES."
Lot of crowd reaction tonight. When President Trump slams the so-called "Squad" and calls them the "leaders of the party," a man in crowd yells back: "Terrorists. They're all terrorists." Unclear whether the president heard him.
That's a wrap after about 90+ mins on stage. The president has (at least) three more rallies scheduled for January: Milwaukee next week; Wildwood, NJ on Jan 28; and Iowa before the Feb 3 caucuses there
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