Crowd now booing "Nancy Pelosi and the Socialist Squad" who, to be fair, never lived up to the promise of their early singles.
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Pence is definitely the Yoko track on a Lennon album. He can't even hold this audience, the largest and most sympathetic he'll see in his career
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Now Sweet Child of Mine blasts and a pit crew runs out to reconfigure the podium, adding teleprompter and presidential seal
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Trump walks out, taking his time, to "god bless the USA". He looks a little–dare I say it?–low energy
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Trump opens bragging about crowd size, claiming (probably correctly) he has more than the democratic candidates put together. He lies about never having empty seats in front of a crowd that can see it's not true
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More chants of LOCK HER UP when Trump talks about hearing angry mumbling behind him during the State of the Union
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Trump's goal is not to win re-election, he says. He sees it as a given. He wants to take back the House of Representatives. Gives shout out to "warrior Senator" Lindsey Graham
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Huge cheers to Google financed representatives Kevin McCarthy and Steve Scalise, reprising his bizarre comedy routine about Scalise getting shot
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Another recipient of Google donations, homophobe Tom Emmer, gets called out for applause
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Don Jr. and the "very beautiful even though I'm not allowed to say that because she's my daughter" Ivanka called to stage. First time I've seen an Internet Freedom Award winner
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Trump again stressing how good his job numbers are for African Americans, in particular youth. Calls Republican Party the party of equal opportunity
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Now attacking wind energy, extremely popular among republicans in Iowa. "Want to see a graveyard for birds? Go look under a windmill"
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"The virus–rough stuff! President Xi is doing an excellent job. It will work itself out." Ties drug problem in New Hampshire to illegal immigrants. It's true I really wish I had drugs right now
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Trump boasts that the Democrats will give him anything except the wall. This is true–the Democratic House voted through a huge military bill mid-impeachment
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Trump on his bit about two timeless technologies–"a wheel and a wall". He reads the lyrics to a song called "The Snake" about a woman who takes in a refugee serpent and is bitten for her trouble
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Surprisingly, a bunch of people are leaving early. Maybe to beat traffic, maybe because they just wanted to see Trump
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"The Democratic Party wants to run your health care, when they can't even run an election in Iowa." Says they're trying to take it away from Bernie again. "They're doing it to you again, Bernie!"
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Trump muses about how the swamp was far dirtier and deeper than he ever dreamed. That's why it will take four more years to clean it out. Crowd seems pro-swamp-drainage
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Trump is funny in a way the cameras at these rallies don't capture well. He's also not senile. The hair situation remains unclear
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And with that, the rally is over. Trump played the hits! The only rival candidates name checked were Biden, Pelosi, Bernie and Warren. People seemed to have fun. I called for Death to take me, but Death would not come
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We can win narrowly in November with many candidates. But to carry the Senate, we'll need to elect people who can reach the kind of person who would come to this rally. It's not going to be easy
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Whoever you support, please join me in helping four rural Democrats who are doing this hard work in *their* districts, with no stadium events or national spotlight, and very little moneyhttps://secure.actblue.com/donate/great_slate …
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