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Crowd starting to line up in NW Omaha (might actually be just outside city limits) for @DonaldJTrumpJr, @GovRicketts, @DonJBacon event.

Quick look inside the @charliekirk11 event for @TPUSA. Doors open soon.

Organizers say they have room for up to 500 people. Event is supposed to start around 5:30 p.m.

Crowd gives law enforcement a standing ovation. Students for Trump rep gets a USA chant.

Ryan Fournier, co-founder Students for Trump is that speaker.

Fournier: Over 200 conservative judges nominated and confirmed. Gonna have a third Supreme Court justice, Amy Coney Barrett. (Crowd stands and cheers.) Says the president is going to be re-elected.

Charlie Kirk gets introduced.

Kirk: 2020 has been an unpredictable year. Talks about coronavirus. Talks about gift of ninth seat on Supreme Court. Calls President Trump the most pro-life president in American history. This is the closest we've come in my lifetime to reversing the disaster of Roe v. Wade.

Kirk: The biggest form of censorship in our country right now, it's not the tech elites, it's not the college professors, it's self-censorship, when you won't wear your MAGA hat or Trump T-shirt to the store. Be silent no longer.

Kirk: People are rising up all over the country. The polls they put on television are suppression polls. They want you to knock on one less door. They want you to think you're down nine. I know Trump supporters. They say they're not talking to you. Keep talking to your friends.

Kirk: The left will bully us decent Americans no longer.

Introduces @DonaldJTrumpJr: (Crowd gives standing O): @kimguilfoyle joining. Trump says Hunter Biden has done worse than the left accused him of and few are writing about it. (The media has covered it, though there are arguments about the play.)

Trump Jr. is joking about how hard it is to enter passwords wrong on their iPhones.

Kim G: Abracadabra.

Trump Jr.: They talk about the peaceful transition of power. It was Obama and Biden's folks that had the first non-peaceful transition of power in our history.

(They're arguing about what Republicans call Russian collusion. Several members of the Trump campaign and people close to the campaign have been convicted of crimes in those investigations.)

Trump Jr.: They say you can't talk about these things.

Trump Jr.: "I don't want to hear the Democrats talking about a non-peaceful transition of power, because it's bullshit."

Trump Jr. is saying it's harder to open and run a business in Democratic cities right now than to burn them down. (Biden has called out looting as criminal behavior. He cut an ad calling it out.) The crowd is booing the delay in calling out looters.

Trump Jr.: I want to see the tax returns of the guy who's been a lifetime politician.

Kirk: I still want to know the person who broke the law and gave that information to the @nytimes. It is not right when private tax info is leaked to a news organization.

Trump Jr.: It's also the reason you elected Donald Trump. How many Republicans have waxed about things and not done it. Donald Trump actually does what he says he's going to do. He executes.

Trump Jr. is talking about his book again and why it didn't go higher on the NYT bestseller list. (He self-published.)

Kirk: Kim, you're a former prosecutor, can you lay out the case on Hunter Biden?

Kim: Nobody had the honesty or guts to tell the truth about this. He did the work and put the information and facts out there so people can make an informed decision. (Calling media shameful.)

(Folks this is going faster than I can fact check in real time. Any help you can provide is welcome.)

Kim G. is arguing Biden is still "hiding in the basement." (He's campaigned in person and virtually, but his team has said they're preparing for the debate tomorrow.)

Trump Jr.: If Joe Biden could've fixed anything, he would've done it by now. (He's repeating his statements in SW Iowa about Biden growing jobs in China.)

Trump: You think he'll fix trade issues with China? He's not going to start now.

Kirk: Joe Biden is not traveling the country, because he takes this race as if it's his.

Trump Jr. getting nods from the crowd by saying his dad is running against the media, against big tech, against everybody protecting Joe Biden.

Kim G.: Don't think they won't cheat. (Democrats accuse Republicans of being interested in doing the same thing.)

Trump Jr.: I'd say no one has spent more time preparing for a debate and no presidential candidate has spent less time on the campaign trail.

Trump Jr.: Kids running for class president have done more.

Kirk: Also huge differences in policy. He's been on every single side of every issue. (He's arguing Biden authored the Clinton crime bill; says Trump improved it.)

Trump Jr.: If he could've brought this country together, why hasn't he in 47 years?

Trump Jr.: Prison reform wasn't part of Republican dogma or the platform. Donald Trump did it because it's the right thing to do.

Kirk is now arguing the GOP line that Biden is beholden to AOC and the progressive wing of the party that his campaign defeated.

Trump Jr. is saying Biden is no more than camouflage for the far left, including Bernie Sanders. (Biden has discussed where he differs with the progressive wing of his party.)

Trump Jr.: The media will tell you how moderate he is. But just look at the policies. Just look at the people leading these things. Blue-collar Democrat voters, this party doesn't represent you anymore. (Unions are more split these days, but most still line up behind Biden.)

Trump Jr. and Kim G. are saying the media want Biden to win.

Kirk is arguing President Trump has been more transparent about who he wants on the Supreme Court. Kirk: Why aren't the media demanding whom Biden will appoint?

Trump Jr.: This is not that hard without bullet points and a teleprompter. (Crowd gives standing O.)

Trump Jr. on Biden: You're going to give this guy the nuclear codes? I think you give this guy a bottle of Ensure, a pack of Depends and send him on his way.

Kirk: Trump has higher energy. (This has been an argument, including the president, about Biden's stamina.)

Trump Jr.: It's always like that. In the old days, he'd call at 5 a.m. and ask why I'm not in the office. He was there. So he knew I wasn't.

Trump Jr.: These politicians don't understand the real world implications of their actions. Donald Trump does.

Trump Jr.: You've been doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result. (This has been a common refrain, running as an outsider as the incumbent.)

Trump Jr. is telling them the story about criticisms of Ivanka Trump's kid building the LEGO White House with help. He's joking, saying who wouldn't help a 3-year old.

Trump Jr. is arguing Trump doesn't get enough credit for the peace deals in the Middle East. Trump Jr.: That's why your willingness to knock on doors, and talk to neighbors.

Kirk: The list of accomplishments in long. Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett. Middle East peac

Kim G. gets loud applause for a line about working to reduce child sex trafficking, human trafficking, a real issue that has become a common refrain of the Qanon movement. Trump Jr. just said Trump was the first politician to fight this issue. (He was not.)

Trump Jr.: We don't need a lecture on decency in the Oval Office from Bill Clinton.

Trump Jr.: "That is their moral authority. They have none."

Trump Jr. is joking about Bill Clinton wanting to take his own life.

Trump Jr. made an Epstein reference.

Trump Jr.: I tried to do this with humor, but this stuff is really going on.

Kirk: It might come down to this, where we are right now could decide the future of our republic. You have to be in this district knocking on doors every single weekend. This entire election is about who is in charge. Nebraska believes in we the people.

I'm told @GovRicketts canceled at the last minute, but @DonJBacon is coming on stage now with Kirk. Junior and Kim G. are headed to another event. Crowd gives him standing O.

Bacon: Last week we had some visitors from the other campaign. They said they were going to take Sarpy County. They had eight people in the crowd. It was the silliest thing I've ever seen. (The Biden people held an event in Papillion that they said they capped to be responsible.)

Bacon: The middle-wage income earners saw the highest income growth under President Trump in the history of our country. We did this through cutting taxes, regulatory reform. Small businesses had predictability. He made sure we had a fair fight at the trade table.

Bacon: We also had a military the weakest it had been since Jimmy Carter. In four years it's the strongest it's been since Ronald Reagan. And we have someone who lived up to their promises. Moved the embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.

Bacon: On energy policy, we're the largest producer in the world. We need to use our energy in this race. We cannot take anything for granted. One of the 50 districts that drive the majority in the House. We need this district and others so we can fire Speaker Pelosi (applause).

Kirk: This district is full of young families. (He's asking Bacon to explain how the Democratic Party has change.)

Bacon: Nancy Pelosi, six years ago, used to be considered the left of the party. Folks have moved to her left.

Bacon: We're not from Brooklyn. We're not from San Francisco. We don't need AOC from Nebraska.

He's talking about abortion politics, calling the party's position extreme.

Kirk: This is one of the districts the DCCC thinks they can win. If you feel like you're losing your country ... you're living in a place that could be the tie-breaker.

He's saying the WaPo had a story that this is the electoral vote Biden is likely to flip.

Kirk: You now live where the future of our country will be decided.

They’ve wrapped up. Thanks for following along. Story to come, as soon as I can write it, for @OWHnews.

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