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Working the Story: Who goes to a Trump rally? We drove to Indiana to find out.
The Chicago Sun-Times ^ | May 27, 2018 | Tina Sfondeles

Posted on 05/27/2018 3:17:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Sun-Times political reporter discovers a (mostly) friendly space for Trump in Elkhart

On May 10, 2018, President Trump traveled to Elkhart, Indiana – about 100 miles east of Chicago.

Basking in the cheers of thousands of supporters wearing his red campaign hats, Trump hailed his decision to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports and his tough stance on trade deals, appealing to the region’s manufacturing base. He reissued his campaign pledge to build a border wall with Mexico, telling the crowd the work had started despite opposition from Democrats.

And he celebrated the return of three Americans who had been held captive in North Korea, saying: “We welcomed them back home the proper way.”

But for a onetime political novice who ran as an outsider, Trump played the role of party champion ahead of midterm elections that typically haunt the party that holds the White House....

(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...


TOPICS: Indiana; Campaign News; State and Local
KEYWORDS: indiana; trump
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1 posted on 05/27/2018 3:17:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Good gracious. The headline makes it sound like a visit to Lower Slobovia.


2 posted on 05/27/2018 3:20:10 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If those excerpts are the best he could do, why did he bother?


3 posted on 05/27/2018 3:26:02 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: BenLurkin

Well, Trump supporters. You know. Them dad gum nazis and kkk type haters. So some subversives plan to infiltrate. With press creds? NEVER talk to the press. NEVER EVER. About anything. Just slightly less devious than lawyers.


4 posted on 05/27/2018 3:26:37 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: BenLurkin

the leftard author was just bitching because there were no safe spaces available for a snowflake like her..


5 posted on 05/27/2018 3:27:05 PM PDT by max americana (Fired libtard employees 9 consecutive times at every election since 08'. I hope all liberals die.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

let my guess: racist, xenophobic, uneducated, redneck, gun-toting, blue-collar, Christian white people, right?


6 posted on 05/27/2018 3:27:28 PM PDT by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Slanting The Story: (as presented online)


7 posted on 05/27/2018 3:27:38 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Our destination? The inner bowels of the Trump Based, conservative movement in Indiana.
Our overall feeling as reporters? Frightened, disgusted and perplexed.”
Our work motto? Stay openminded!


8 posted on 05/27/2018 3:32:20 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Danger, Will Robinson!


9 posted on 05/27/2018 3:32:26 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Conservatives in the Mist


10 posted on 05/27/2018 3:34:08 PM PDT by TChad
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, that certainly wasn’t worth the click I gave it...


11 posted on 05/27/2018 3:34:24 PM PDT by be-baw (still seeking...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Among the savages of Indiana, I see.

Amazing she made it out without ending up as a shrunken head.
/sarc

12 posted on 05/27/2018 3:47:21 PM PDT by Salman (Don't say "gun control". Say "civilian disarmament".)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

wonder if he got paid for this?


13 posted on 05/27/2018 3:48:28 PM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: rktman

Oh, I will talk to them. Question to the reporter: who do you work for? They name the newspaper. I say wrong, you work for the Democrat Party.

At that point, I am sure the interview is over.


14 posted on 05/27/2018 3:49:07 PM PDT by joshua c (To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Who goes to a Trump rally?

My mom. She was there.

15 posted on 05/27/2018 3:52:07 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: be-baw

WUY? You actually cricked on it. That’s brave of you. The cst no less. And that ain’t Central Standard Time either.


16 posted on 05/27/2018 3:52:37 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bunch of liberal idiots went to a Trump rally thinking they’d find just a bunch of white boys drunk off their asses shooting their guns in the air while yelling, “Yee-haw! String a nigga!”

Typical liberal stereotypes of white people. Of course, liberals don’t stereotype, just ask ‘em.


17 posted on 05/27/2018 3:53:16 PM PDT by CodeToad
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“The cst no less. And that ain’t Central Standard Time either.”

Ok, I can’t help but ask. If CST isn’t central standard time, what is it? And what does that have to do with anything?


18 posted on 05/27/2018 3:59:40 PM PDT by be-baw (still seeking...)
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To: be-baw

LOL! Uh, Chicago Sun Times. Sorry.


19 posted on 05/27/2018 4:03:47 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

SMH. I should have known...


20 posted on 05/27/2018 4:06:17 PM PDT by be-baw (still seeking...)
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