“But, they’re so rude”, he added.
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But perhaps more so, Trump was digging in on Sanders’ turf in hopes of demonstrating some crossover appeal. “Get him out”, Trump directed to his event’s security team.
Moments later, the GOP front-runner yelled, “Alright, get him out!” “It’s sort of fun, isn’t this more exciting?” “You know, you go to a Hillary thing. Go to a Jeb Bush event, you fall asleep”, he said.
Rally attendees said they were surprised to be confronted with a loyalty test at the theater’s entrance.
Trump played up to the Vermont crowd that rarely sees a presidential candidate visit. “I would love, love, love to run against Donald Trump”. Do we like Bernie?
“I would suggest that Secretary Clinton look at the last Quinnipiac poll, which has me leading Trump by a significantly higher margin than she does, and that’s true of other polls as well.”
“Don’t give them their coats. Get Trump Out!” from their seats in the audience.
Outside the event, police were deployed for crowd control after Trump overbooked the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts.
“Mexico!” the crowd replied enthusiastically.
Sanders has been going on the offensive against Trump for the past several weeks. “Mexico!” the crowd responded again.
The repeated interruptions and chiming in from supporters disrupted the flow of Trump’s speech. I’m here because you people are great.
Trump: Who’s going to pay for the wall? It was a 1,400 seat venue (packed beyond capacity as with most of Trump’s appearances) and they handed out 20,000 tickets in advance.
Cheers and jeers alike greeted Donald Trump at his Thursday night rally at the Flynn Center in Burlington, Vt.
Local police weren’t so friendly with their outgoing message. “I am the only one”. “We can’t let anybody take over our mic. We can’t let it happen”. “We’re in Vermont, the air is so nice and clean”, he said.
“We have more than 20,000 individuals that appeared for 1,400 spots. They’re afraid to come up here because it has a tendency to be a little bit liberal”, Trump observed as he kicked off the rally.
“It was so embarrassing to watch”, Trump said.
Would-be patrons were asked by campaign staffers whether they supported Trump before being allowed in – and if they said “no”, they were turned away. President Obama, he said, “doesn’t have a clue”. Still, there is some overlap in interest when it comes to policy positions, including opposition to free trade agreements and super PAC spending. This is the largest factor of overbooking that most people have heard of, he said before the rally. Theyre chopping off heads and she doesnt like my tone, Trump said. In June, he held a sign in New Hampshire that said, “He held a sign in New Hampshire that said “Mexican People Are Not Criminals”. You know it’s about 10 degrees below zero outside”, he called from the stage. Howie Carr’s a great guy. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), a Democratic presidential candidate.
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“This woman, these are the people I love, she has a permit to carry a gun”. It’s such a attractive story. We need our guns, whether we like it or not. He decried the carnage at recent terror attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif., saying if others were armed the attacks would not have been so deadly. Others swore at Trump as they were led outside.
