Posted on 01/28/2016 7:57:20 PM PST by Engraved-on-His-hands
Frontrunner Donald Trump invited fellow GOP presidential candidates Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum to attend his fundraiser for veterans, after the two expressed interest in attending to support a good cause. Trump even brought them on stage with him to discuss issues involving veterans.
Trump said he had got to know both Huckabee and Santorum "on the trail, as they say."
"We have Mike Huckabee sitting right here." Trump said to the crowd asking Huckabee to stand, adding he's a "great guy."
"Where's Rick?" Trump then questioned. "Come up here for a second."
Trump then pointed to Mrs. Huckabee and Santorum's daughter for recognition.
The crowd started chanting, "U-S-A, U-S-A."
Trump asked Santorum and Huckabee say a few words.
Santorum took to the podium first, which was marked with a Trump campaign sign, and said even though they are competing against each other, "that doesn't mean we can't work together when it comes to our veterans and that's what Mike and I are doing here tonight."
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Whole lotta ass kissin’ goin’ on.
You obviously did not watch the event or you’d know how ridiculous that statement is
Amazing rally for our Veterans and wounded warriors.
That was a bit funny, actually.
No. It was Class.
Go Trump
I cannot recommend watching even the first 5 minutes of the debate after watching Trump. It was sickening.
Now back to the Trump rally.....
I think both Huck and Santorum
will be very high on Trumps hiring list after the elections.
I like Huckabee.
So, I saw a tweet from Trump saying two candidates had contacted him, asking to attend his event.
Santorum says he was asked to attend.
Who is telling the truth?
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump 13 minutes ago
An unbelievable night in Iowa with our great Veterans! We raised $6,000,000.00 while the politicians talked! #GOPDebate”
Retweeted 2.7K times.
Someone pointed out that both Huckabee and Santorum are past contributors of Fox News and also are making their own statements about Fox by standing with Trump.
NO kidding.
It was so cool to have Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum there and for them to speak.
Over six million raised - in one day - amazing. Puts Ted’s 1 million debate challenge it’s place.
Trump is levels above everyone else in this race.
Trump is amazing to watch. He’s so far above what we are used to many people don’t get it.
I’m glad CSPAN did a really good job, they even panned the cameras to the protesters.
I’m keeping this recording, its worth it.
Big loser tonight, Fox.
It was historic in terms of politics and optics.
Not to mention Sarah's statement tonite....
Agreed.
Channel surfing after the Trump Rally I found the usual suspects attackin Trump for using the Veterans as props. My opnion is that there real fear is that a lot of people see Real Heroes, and how there are treated, and some are “broken”. It puts a spotlight on the issue, and the people.
Huck, and Rick showed class also. All Good men, in the company of Americas Greatest. Our Soilders.
Go Trump
He can whip this up in 24 hours, but supposedly he’s got no ground game in Iowa.
I’ll bet they were amazed to see a Trump rally from the inside. Put together in 24 hours, big screens set up for the thousands outside. I think they were in awe.
I think Trump was a little late - he said he’d been talking to Fox and they had invited him to the debate at the last minute.
Sheer brilliance.
I tried watching the rest of the debate afterwards, but just couldn’t do it. It was like hearing a Hillary screechfest vs. Reagan’s speech on the Challenger disaster 30 years ago this night. Two historic events vs a nothingburger of a debate.
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