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Poor widdle scooter---he had a rough day.
@realDonaldTrump vs. @ScottWalker: A tale of two tailgates http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/donald-trump-scott-walker-iowa-football-tailgate-2016-213578
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Trump vs. Walker: A tale of two tailgates
At Iowa's big annual college football showdown, Donald Trump was the winner.
By Katie Glueck
09/12/15, 11:07 PM EDT
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AMES, Iowa The stage, the heat and the drunk college kids they faced were the same. But the receptions Scott Walker and Donald Trump received when they stumped at the same Iowa event Saturday couldn't have been more different or revealing.
The tailgate party scene at the annual Iowa State-University of Iowa football game was tailor-made for the Wisconsin governor, a football fan who's at his retail politicking-best when playing the Midwestern everyman role. Desperate to regain his footing after plummeting from front-runner to near-cellar-dweller in Iowa in the span of just two months, there was no better place to connect with hordes of voters Saturday than at Jack Trice Stadium, where the annual battle for state bragging rights known as the Cy-Hawk showdown took place.
But Walker was nearly inaudible in his remarks, the fault of too-weak speakers in the tailgate tent. It didn't matter much anyway: it quickly became apparent that many of the hundreds of attendees who had packed into and around the tent, sponsored by the Iowa GOP, couldnt see the main stage, and thoughtand hopedthey were watching Trump instead.
We want Trump! We want Trump! chanted a pocket of students to Walkers left as he spoke.
On his right, as Walker wrapped up, a woman warned a group of people who were pushing toward the front to calm down. Trump, she said, wasnt here yet.
His day didn't get any better when he wended his way through the crowd after the speech -- he faced tough, skeptical questioning from several voters over teacher pay, ethanol and global poverty. One voter mistook him for Marco Rubio.
When Trump finally arrived at the event, an hour or so after he was expected, he was hard to hear too but it didnt matter, because he was drowned out by a shrieking mob that surged toward him when he arrived, causing attendees to fall into each other and setting off a car alarm in the frenzy. Anti-Trump protestors had been waiting to take him on for hours, but they couldnt break through the packed crowd............
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/donald-trump-scott-walker-iowa-football-tailgate-2016-213578#ixzz3lcru8fif
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)couldn't put poor Scottie back together again!
As a side note, I see Trump is now wearing the camouflage version of his $3 hat, apparently to reflect his "years of military training" in boarding school!
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(182,750 posts)That was told to me by a guy FROM Iowa when I was in the Army
Walk away
(9,494 posts)I can't wait to see the movie