At least 13,000 people are already here at President Trump’s rally in Hickory, North Carolina, per a Secret Service agent on the scene. The line to get in snakes at least a mile around the airport.
Well ok then.
Sometimes when the helicopter takes too long, they just start “Fortunate Son” over again until Trump has landed at his rally. I’m not mad bc CCR rules.
Sometimes I wonder if Donald Trump would be president if there were more free concerts available to Americans. Would the MAGA rally be such a thing if seniors regularly gathered to dance to the greatest hits of the last half century together in the moonlight?
Just something I’m thinking about as I can’t form more sophisticated thoughts with “Macho Man” blasting from the speakers and Marine One loudly humming nearby
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As I was interviewing two QAnon supporters in New Mexico at a pro-Trump demonstration, a volunteer who said she was with the Trump campaign — and wore a Trump credential — came up and told me she was instructed by the campaign to stand next to me and monitor my interview.
At political events, this has occasionally happened to me. During the Dem primary this year, for instance, a staffer working for Michael Bloomberg tried to follow me around as I conducted interviews with people who showed up to a debate watch party at a Bloomberg campaign office.
President Trump opened his rally in Des Moines tonight with a rant about Hunter Biden and the NY Post story. 20 days before Election Day, in the middle of a pandemic and an economic crisis, this is his message to voters.
Besides being an issue that probably won’t motivate any voters who aren’t already a part of his base, another issue with this message is that President Trump cannot pronounce “Burisma.”
Trump‘s Hunter Biden Hail Mary is an attempt to replicate their argument against Hillary Clinton (that she embodied “the swamp” he would drain). But they didn’t make that case on their own. Republicans spent over two decades calling the Clintons corrupt before Trump ran.
The fucking geniuses at the Trump campaign changed the venue from where they’d initially scheduled it but it still says the wrong address on the invitation for supporters.
Ran into a Trump supporter outside the arena, a flag waving from his truck, who was trying to figure out where they’d moved it. He raised his fist as he drove off.
No official reason for the venue change, but it seems like this is a way smaller room than Rudy Giuliani was initialed booked to speak in.
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