Posted on 01/14/2016 5:22:33 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Donald Trump took his front-running campaign for the Republican presidential nomination to Pensacola, Fla., on Wednesday night. And, holy cow, did people come out in droves to see him.
Here's a photo of the crowd taken by WaPo's own Jenna Johnson.
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Trump's campaign claimed it gave out 20,000 tickets; the arena holds 11,500 people. According to Jenna's reporting, there were "at least 11,000" in attendance and "several thousand more were turned away."
Large crowds are the rule, not the exception, at this point for Trump. He had 8,000 people in Lowell, Mass., earlier this month; more than 2,000 showed up in Burlington, Vt., -- not exactly a conservative enclave -- to hear Trump speak last week.
I've written a lot about crowd sizes this election and how they remain an uncertain indicator of actual support. But, Trump's ability to draw thousands and thousands of people to hear him speak this close to actual voting -- we are 19 days from the Iowa caucuses -- suggests to me that the enthusiasm and passion he has sparked among a certain segment of the GOP base isn't going anywhere any time soon.
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No one’s zotproof, except maybe JimRob.
At least mongrel is a good-natured troll. They last longer than the nasty ones.
Nope, not made up. Plenty of stuff out there saying Donald is mentally ill. Not saying it’s true. Just saying I saw it. Still more silly threats. Silly threats don’t really help you. Sounds desparate.
“I haven’t encountered any Dems who are anything but left wing nuts, and I live in a conservative county.”
Pauline Kael, please pick up the white courtesy phone.
You are a very concerned troll.
Report this guy.
Now that's funny right there.
“I’m just hearing it from others.”
Could it be coming from voices inside your head?
But seriously, if I hitched my wagon to a Goldman Sachs crony loser, I’d be angry too. There will always be a spot for you on the Trump bandwagon! Best of luck!
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He has hijacked the thread and made it about himself and is attacking Trump and controlling the narrative quite successfully so the thread may as well be close unless it’s just for amusement
No wagon hitched up. No dog in the fight. Yup, I sound like I’m crazy. That’s probably why Donald struggles with this perception that he’s mentally ill. He taught me to talk like this.
The liberals,RINOs and MSM are the ones going crazy!!!
It’s funny what gets people zotted from FR and what doesn’t.
Legitimate philosophical disputes often end with the lesser orthodox party being banned while obvious passive-aggressive malice is as welcome as mother’s milk.
I haven’t encountered a Reagan Democrat in a generation, and I live in a conservative county.
Ronald Wilson Reagan was a Democrat before he was a Republican. I don’t think Mr Trump is a Socialist.
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Look at Reagan’s conversion to conservatism, starting with his rabid anti-communism stance in the late 1940’s, voting for and supporting Republican candidates and policies in the 1950’s to becoming the voice of conservatism in the 1960’s, becoming a conservative president in the 1980’s. There was quite a bit of conservative history with Reagan, spanning decades. Compare to Trump’s constant changing of party affiliation and positions on the issues in just the past decade. They are not comparable.
At least Trump has never been a socialist like Sanders supporting the nationalizing of healthcare or the banking system... oh, that’s right. He did. Does he still? He praised the single payer healthcare system THIS election cycle. The difference between Sanders and Trump is that one is a big government liberal while the other one is a big government liberal.
I see what you’re doing there...everyone is saying Cruz is not an NBC, and he should get it checked out, to get it off the campaign, so its not hanging over his head, I’m not saying its true, just that everyone keeps bringing it up...
“Afraid to say ‘Reagan democrats’ aren’t you. Afraid to admit folks want an ‘America first’ candidate.”
I’m fine with America first, if it is truly America first, as in Constitutional republic, and not American federal government first, Constitutional rights last.
Not everyone. Just Donald. He’s the one that kept bringing it up. Over and over. For a month. Now people talk about it.
I am pretty sure this shot is photoshopped.
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