30,000 turn out for Trump's Alabama pep rally

http://www.cnn.com ^ | August 21, 2015 | Theodore Schleifer and Noah Gray, CNN

[Twinkie]

“. . . split into 2 nations”

Uh. Tennessee here. We tried that in the 1800’s. Feds fixed our wagon. Won’t try that again.

[mothball]

Agreed. He’s been a breath of fresh air, in sticking it to the PC schmucks. I love that it drives them nuts! and that he doesn’t fall lock step in with the DC slap d*cks,

[Catsrus]

I heard that security carted some protesters out. Also, I saw one video where there is space between the podium and the audience, and there were security walking up and down it- no way the BLM crowd is going to get near him.

[Balding_Eagle]

chrissy matthews asking if there were any black people there?

The answer back from his reporter was great "No Black people, just normal people".

[NKP_Vet]

Mobile has around 200,000 people. To get 30,000 people to show up on an overcase Friday night is much more impressive than getting 28,000 liberal Starbucks drinkers to show up in Seattle, with a population of 700,000 people; 2,000,000 if you include all the liberals in King County.

[txrefugee]

Chris Matthews must think that Trump had a sign out front of the stadium saying ,”NO BLACKS ALLOWED!!!” There is no reason for Blacks and Latinos not to participate in his events, other than that they’ve been brain-washed by Democrats into thinking that they are incapable of fending for themselves and that their welfare servitude is better than the freedom of achievement.

[laplata]

“Bye, bye political correctness”.

And good riddance. People are fed up with the PC-Political Crap.

[Vaquero]

Sorry, Twinkie, if you fight for freedom you will win if enough people want freedom. If you don’t? Sit quietly and wait for your masters to tell you what to do.

[odawg]

Trump also drew 30,000 in the heat and threatening rain. Some people probably stayed home who would have attended otherwise.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

The 30,000 number of people attnding the Donald Trump, Mobile, Alabama rally is truly stunning & awesome....but the real telling numbers will come forward defining the number of Americans that watched the rally & speech on Cable TV News!!! I suspect the number will fall between 10-15 million viewers, if so, unbeilveable numbers!!!

[RetSignman]

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Much of this country has gone to Marx. We will someday have to split into 2 nations

Yes...the cities, vs. all the rest of the United States.

It's like that.

[jmacusa]

I am enjoying to the hilt the way Trump has shaken everyone, Left, Right and Center. It's exposed in the harshest light the whole rotten, stinking façade of phony conservatives, the liberal media and even the supposed ‘’conservative’’ media. Its nothing short of amazing, and even frightening how entrenched the rot is. Any candidate with less money but saying what Trump is saying would have been buried long ago by both sides, conservative media and liberal media and that's scary. All of the GOP front runners have been scrambling to sound like Trump and it's pathetic, even embarrassing. Before Americas problems are even addressed, let alone resolved, Trump has to knock down all the walls of the entrenched orthodoxy he's has been skewering. And the way he has been going after Jeb Bush shows me the ‘’establishment’’ really wants Jeb Bush for president. That's scary too. It shows to me that all the other GOP candidates were meant just to be a distraction, something to give the appearance of a choice. They think we're chumps to be distracted by shiny baubles. I pray Trump continues on his fight to The White House. I hope to God he isn't just playing us all for fools. We're in serious trouble as a nation and a people. Another Democrat or even one of the GOP front runners in office and we're done, over. America is finished. Go Donny Trump!

[Karl Spooner]

C-Span panned the crowd at the 19:40 mark.

http://www.c-span.org/video/?327751-1/donald-trump-campaign-rally-mobile-alabama

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Bernie Sanders 8/21/2015 rally comparison.

http://www.c-span.org/search/?searchtype=All&query=bernie+sanders

[jacob allen]

Hillary draws 300 to her orange jumpsuit pep rally.

[Rebelbase]

If it ever happens that Trump is able to fill a 100,000 seat stadium CNN will say that the last political figure to do that was Adolph Hitler.

[Rebelbase]

I loved the guillotine beside the stage. Very appropriate for current state of the country.

[SamAdams76]

Even more telling will be the number of people who watch the rally on YouTube after the fact.

I was one of them. The rally happened on a Friday night and I went to Frank Pepe's pizza parlor to have a white clam pizza and a pitcher of Peroni.

I got home later last night and viewed on the YouTube.

I think more and more people are viewing political events this way. We should be counting those numbers in with those who tune in on live TV.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Yes, the numbers that really do count are the Cable TV viewers and the “You Tube” viewers!!! We should have them within the next few days!!

As for your pizza venture......I only have one word!!! “YUMMY”!!!

[Company Man]

If CNN put the crowd at 30K, you can be very sure Trump's people had the hard turnstile count to back it up. Good point upthread about the relative population counts between Southern Alabama / Florida panhandle metro area vs. Land of the Pony-tailed Wunderkind.

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