Scalping tickets for a political rally! Has anybody ever heard of such a thing before?
Posted on 09/14/2015 6:36:38 PM PDT by markomalley
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump told a sold-out crowd of 20,000 people Monday evening that he's running for the country, not for his brand.
"You know, there's a group of pundits out there — they wear heavy glasses and they look — and they say 'Well, he's just doing this for fun. He's just doing this for his brand," the outspoken billionaire told the sea of supporters at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas.
"Like I need this for my brand," he quipped.
Trump blasted conservative pundits, naming Karl Rove and George Will, who've criticized his brash campaign style, calling them "a group of losers."
"You know, I haven't heard the word 'clown' anymore," he said, referring to one of the more popular words used to describe him in the first few weeks of his campaign.
"They're saying the 'silent majority" is back," Trump said. "But maybe we should call it the noisy, the aggressive, the wanting-to-win majority."
"We want to win. We're tired of being pushed around by incompetent people," he added. "We're sick and tired of what's happening and it's going to change."
Minutes before Trump took the stage, a woman introducing the GOP hopeful described his surge of support as "not a phenomenon, but a revolution."
"I do believe that 2016 may be more historic than the election of Barack Obama," the woman said to rousing applause.
According to earlier reports, Latino activist groups were planning to bus hundreds of counter-protesters to the event from as far away as Houston, located more than 200 miles outside of Dallas, to engage in a "march against hate."
Meanwhile, Trump supporters were reportedly paying scalpers upwards of $200 for tickets to his campaign rally over the weekend.
The real estate mogul's arrival in Dallas comes less than two months after his visit to the Texas-Mexico border in July. He has climbed more than 12 points in national polls of Republican voters since then, according to polling data from RealClearPolitics.
Trump will take center stage at the second Republican primary debate Wednesday in Simi Valley, Calif. where pundits predict he is likely to be challenged by fellow GOP hopefuls Carly Fiorina and Jeb Bush — both of whom he has sparred with in recent weeks.
Scalping tickets for a political rally! Has anybody ever heard of such a thing before?
scalping isn’t happeing with jeb or hillary pressers, no doubt.
Noisy, they ain’t seen nothing yet.
We have just begun the march to rebellion.
Ah, contemplating a good ouster is exhilarating.
Yes it is. I've heard of people offering to pay good money to take the Jeb and Hillary tickets off their hands... lolz
20,000 vs empty rooms
Jeb scaplers pay you to take Jeb tickets off their hands.
Side comment: Trump keeps using the word “bigly”. Finally found it - middle English. Perhaps his mother used it in Scotland.
RINOs want to win without appealing to the base. They think they can win without the conservatives and learned nothing from 3008 and 2012.
RINOs want to win without appealing to the base. They think they can win without the conservatives and learned nothing from 2008 and 2012.
“..Trump blasted conservative pundits, naming Karl Rove and George Will, who’ve criticized his brash campaign style, calling them “a group of losers...”
This is what happens to GOPe arrogance when it is directed to someone who is not owned. Choke on it guys. Now, what are you going to call him next??
You don't have to deal with nasty, criminal scalpers at Jeb! events! Plenty of good seats still available!
Oh, man. Did he get kicked in the head by a horse?
And they learned nothing from the midterms.
Will, Kraut, Goldberg, Rove and Hume still think Trump is going to implode any second now.
I’ll stick my neck out and say Trump will not win the debate Wed night because he isn’t a slick talker like the practiced politicians who have been telling us what they will do for 25 years now and never delivering. I also predicit it wont’ make any difference in his poll numbers. I could care less about his debating skills I care what Trump will do if we give him a chance.
does every scalped ticket...come complete with its own Combover??
“According to earlier reports, Latino activist groups were planning to bus hundreds of counter-protesters to the event from as far away as Houston, located more than 200 miles outside of Dallas, to engage in a “march against hate.””
This is what I mean when I say the big issue is overcoming the PC speech codes. If you oppose the left you are exhibiting hate. The GOP-E tries to soft soap this but that is impossible. By ignoring them and ridiculing them Trump exposes them.
Notice none of them tried to storm the rally stage like they do with Mr Green Jeans (Bernie Sanders) or Satan’s Prom Queen
Trump hit three grand slams tonight ! I have more thrills going up my leg ( lol ) than when Reagan ran in 1980 !
I don’t think he needs to “win” the debate, whatever that means. (With 11 people getting their “fair” turn, how do you win?) Between tonight’s rally and tomorrow’s battleship rally, the perception is that he’s a winner/leader and the debate itself is minimized.
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