Are you ready? Who will pay for that wall? I said, “Yay, oh, that’s so good.”, Trump said.
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Trump received a cheerful welcome at the Selling Arena in Fresno, California Friday morning from roughly 5,000 supporters.
Numerous anti-Trump protesters in San Diego carried signs in support of Bernie Sanders, while others chanted, “Whose streets?” “In here, we all think alike”.
Anti-Trump protesters clashed with police outside a rally in San Diego for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
In its fifth year, California’s drought has ravaged farm lands and forced hundreds of farmers to sell their land or clear their trees.
Speaking at a rally in Fresno, Calif., Trump accused state officials of denying water to Central Valley farmers so they can send it out to sea “to protect a certain kind of three-inch fish”.
But he insisted he’d win it anyway: “If we have a trial we’ll go all the way, watch how we win it”.
“I’ve heard this from other friends of mine in California, where they have farms up here, and they don’t get water”, Trump said at a campaign rally.
Water authorities say they can’t do it because of the water rights of those upstream of the farmers, and because of the minimum-water allowances needed by endangered species in the bay and by wildlife in general. “There is no drought”.
He said his plan would remove bureaucracy from energy innovation and wean the country off energy imports. “She could care less”, Trump said. “And then they go over to the environmental side, and they want them”. The candidate called the protesters “thugs” in a tweet late Friday night. He said this election has peaked his interest in politics. CNN said that the Thursday delegate estimate for Trump was 1,237, while according to ABC America it was 1,239.
Fresno is in the heart of the state’s rich agricultural area.
“You can’t make all these promises without facts”. “The last thing we want is a mob mentality. The only way he can keep his promise is by making it rain”. In just one sweep of the event, at least 30 anti-Trump protesters were removed.
The suggested debate would have sidelined likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton but given Sanders a huge platform ahead of California’s June 7 primary. So far, however, they’re not getting much help from Trump’s campaign, which has yet to launch an outreach effort to improve his standing with the growing voting bloc.
For most of the afternoon, the protests outside were peaceful.
Hours after Donald Trump’s rally at the San Diego Convention Center on Friday, police were still forced to deal with protestors miles away in Barrio Logan. A large amount of people were still in line trying to get inside the facility as Trump delivered his speech.
Punches were thrown as Trump supporters and protestors squared off.
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His rhetoric about building a border wall and mass deportations doesn’t necessarily spell political doom in a state were more than 45 percent of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino, outnumbering non-Hispanic whites, Albuquerque pollster Brian Sanderoff said.
