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TomCADem

(17,390 posts)
Sat May 28, 2016, 05:59 PM May 2016

Trump's San Diego rally draws more than 1,000 chanting protesters

Source: Reuters

Donald Trump brought his message of walls and deportations to the doorstep of America's busiest border crossing on Friday as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee greeted supporters in San Diego, amid one of the largest counter-protests organized against him.

The scene inside the San Diego Convention Center during Trump's speech was relatively placid, while outside demonstrators opposed to his controversy-ridden White House bid marched and chanted, carrying signs criticizing his rhetoric against illegal immigration.

Waving U.S. and Mexican flags, more than 1,000 people turned out for anti-trump rallies in San Diego, a city on the U.S.-Mexico border whose San Ysidro port of entry sees nearly 300,000 people a day cross legally between the countries.

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"Fantastic job on handling the thugs who tried to disrupt our very peaceful and well attended rally," Trump tweeted to police afterwards.

Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trumps-san-diego-rally-draws-more-than-1000-chanting-protesters/ar-BBtAdpN?ocid=iehp



Way to go San Diego!
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Trump's San Diego rally draws more than 1,000 chanting protesters (Original Post) TomCADem May 2016 OP
Any estimate on the size of the "Chumps for Trumpf" group? roamer65 May 2016 #1
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