A protestor yells as she is escorted by security out of the audience during an address by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at a campaign stop at the Flynn Center of the Performing Arts in Burlington, Vt., Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016.
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Despite reports that attendees at the Burlington venue were pre-screened to ensure they were Trump supporters, some protesters were able to get in to the rally and interrupted the Republican front-runner several times.
Some who endured security told NBC News they were inquired as to whether they were Trump supporters. Those who said yes were allowed in, while those that weren’t were turned away as the campaign closely monitored protesters looking to disrupt the event taking place just blocks from Bernie Sanders’ campaign headquarters.
“Don’t give them their coats”, Trump added. “Are people standing? They took seats out so that we could get more people”, said Donald Trump, (R) Presidential Candidate. “You can keep his coat”. “Tell him we’ll send it to him in a couple of weeks”.
Naturally, some of Burlington’s citizens feel the Bern, and weren’t excited to see the Donald, which they communicated.
“The law is clear we can’t negotiate for 10 to 15 minutes with each person the Trump campaign is asking to leave”.
“I sold blueberries to raise money for his campaign once”, she said. But I think fundamentally, George, what we have to figure out with the phenomenon of Donald Trump and Bernie sanders is can they translate rallies into results? “I think the more people see, the less support he will have”.
The other day, Obama said: “I believe in the Second Amendment…it guarantees a right to bear arms”.
In a snow-covered park near the Flynn Center, hundreds of anti-Trump protesters camped out, waving signs and chanting slogans.
“We have more than 20,000 people that showed up for 1,400 spots”.
Does he want to show GOP voters that he is the candidate who can, finally, flip those three Electoral College votes Vermont has? With Ted Cruz looking like he will win in Iowa, where candidates favored by Republican evangelicals have repeatedly won the first-in-the-nation caucuses, Trump used the Vermont appearance to portray his GOP competitors as weak for not venturing into Sanders’ backyard.
Still, the rally in liberal Burlington was peppered with protests from anti-Trump critics – and loyalists for one of Trump’s Democratic rivals, Vermont Sen.
“I think if Donald Trump becomes the nominee, you’re nearly guaranteed a third-party challenge, perhaps from the Republican side and the Democratic side”, Kibbe tells NPR’s Scott Simon.
Rose Hamid, 56, who was sitting in the stands behind Trump in the rally held in Rock Hill, South Carolina, stood up when the billionaire businessman suggested that Syrian refugees were affiliated with the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group.
“Oh, I would love to run against Bernie”, Trump said.
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“She shoots him, doesn’t kill him, and he goes to the hospital, it’s such a lovely story”, Trump said. “He’s not a career congressman and I really like that about him”.
