'Campaign event' in Florida Saturday

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By KATHERINE FAULDERS, ADAM KELSEY, RYAN STRUYK
Feb 15, 2017, 7:12 PM ET

President Donald Trump took office just weeks ago, but now he is set to travel to Orlando Saturday for what the White House has termed “a campaign event.”

The event, which is listed on Trump’s campaign website, will take place at a hangar at the Orlando-Melbourne International Airport, the site of a previous Trump campaign rally in September.

Trump repeatedly took aim at former President Barack Obama for his campaign efforts while in office.

Asked about the event Wednesday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer called the rally “a campaign event” and said it is “being run by the campaign” ...

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-trump-holding-campaign-event-florida-saturday/story?id=45521140

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1. Trump Kicks Off 2020 Reelection Campaign

DAVID A. GRAHAM 6:23 PM ET

... Trump’s choice to hold a campaign rally less than a month into his presidency breaks new ground ... Trump .. filed papers to run for reelection on Inauguration Day ... It’s hard for Trump to find many friends ... Republicans in Congress are increasingly frustrated with the White House’s stumbles ... More importantly, Trump can say he doesn’t believe the polls until he’s blue in the face, but he is obsessively attentive to them, as he frequently reveals, and his approval rating is miserable — and not just inside the Beltway ...

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/trump-kicks-off-his-2020-reelection-campaign-on-saturday/516909/

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2. Donald Trump to rally in Melbourne

Dave Berman , FLORIDA TODAY
Published 2:21 p.m. ET Feb. 15, 2017 | Updated 2 hours ago

... On Sept. 27, Trump made a campaign speech at the same AeroMod International hangar. Melbourne Police Chief Steve Mimbs estimated the audience was about 8,500 inside the hangar. Thousands more people who wanted to attend could not get inside because of building capacity limits ...

As in many events of this type in hangars and similar venues, people will be standing during the event, as there will be no seating, Ledbetter said. Attendees will not be allowed to bring their own chairs into the hangar ...

http://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/local/2017/02/15/trump-visit-melbourne-confirmed-saturday/97954242/

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4. Could be.

Welcome to DU, Stark85james.

[Lucinda]

5. Hope it is met with much resistance.

[Hekate]

6. I think he's addicted to the roar of the crowd and needs his fix. Hope nobody shows up. nt

[democratisphere]

7. drumpf needs his massive ego massaged by a bunch of deplorables

wearing red hates and waving signs while cheering his name. Wonder how much this crazy sh't trip will cost?

[2naSalit]

8. There ought to be a rule that

only allows one to start a campaign to run for office no more than 12 months out from the election date. This is preposterous, and indicates that he plans to stay in a perpetual campaign mode until he's six feet under... which can't come soon enough for the whole planet.

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9. Wonder if he will have to play crowd noise to make it seam like more people