The whole disturbance took about three minutes to settle down.
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Asked why he supports Trump, Justo Lopez said he wanted “to get rid of the establishment and elect a real Republican”.
The scene at the Fruitville Road arena included homemade “Obama, you’re fired” t-shirts, a elephant with “Make America Great Again” painted on his side, and at leass one pick-up bedecked with a “Trump=Competence” placard”.
And Trump found ways to tailor his message to the room. Marco Rubio and former Gov. Jeb Bush at a campaign stop in their home state of Florida.
His abrasive, bombastic style worries plenty of Republican political leaders who think it would hurt him as a general election nominee, but there was no sign of worry from his many fans in Sarasota. Chairman Cook said the commission saw no reasons to challenge the declarations of candidacy for the presidential hopefuls in question.
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“Rubio didn’t go, he went to a fundraiser”, Trump said as the crowd booed.
Carson’s campaign reported strong fundraising and more than 100,000 new Facebook friends in the 24 hours after he told NBC’s “Meet the Press” in September, “I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation”.
“Over the last 10 years, the political and civic organizations for U.S. Muslims have become much better organized, but I think their voice is still fairly muted”, Green said.
“I had never heard him speak in public before and wanted to hear what he had to say”, said Lenny Fike, of Bradenton, who says he’s undecided but leaning toward Trump.
Trump surmised he will hold his lead in the Sunshine State.
The Saturday interruption from a protestor came as Trump also touted his opposition to gun control, the day after a shooting rampage outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado killed three people. They are one of two groups that will be gathered outside of the Trump event Saturday.
This is because Mr Trump’s slide has been matched by a drop in support for Ben Carson, his closest challenger in the packed Republican field.
He drew a far larger crowd than most candidates can muster, and it included considerably more younger people than typical Sarasota rallies, but few elected officials were present.
He instructed his pilot to take children for helicopter rides.
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Trump denied having any knowledge of who Kovalski is and any knowledge of his physical handicaps. In interviews, Trump supporters often say they like the mogul’s blunt approach, that he “tells it like it is”, without always detailing what “it is” that Trump is explaining so clearly. “I wish he’d be a little more sensitive – especially to people with disabilities”, Ms. Dickson said. “I would never mock a person that has difficulties”. He cited what he called the news organization’s business woes.
