Donald Trump brought the fight to Bernie Sanders' hometown. The town fought back.
The first protest comes early as a man wearing a "Dump Trump" sandwich board is escorted away from the event. The second comes less than ten minutes later, from the balcony.
"Fuck you, Trump," a protester yells as he is escorted away.
"Throw them out," Trump shouts, before telling the crowd "Isn't it exciting?"
"Oh I would love to run against Bernie," Trump declares far into his speech. "That would be a dream come true."
He tests the crowd, asking them, "do we like Bernie?" Apparently sensing a satisfactory climate, he reminds his audience of the August event where Sanders was shut down by Black Lives Matters protesters.
"When they took over that microphone that night screaming at him, he was petrified," Trump says. "I lost so much respect for Bernie. We can't let anybody take over our mic. We can't let it happen."
The home stretch of the speech goes off without a hitch. The protests thinned, and Trump drew applause from the crowd for his tough talk on guns. Vermont, as Sanders himself has noted, has a high level of gun ownership compared with other states in the Northeast. Guns here are mainly used for recreation.
"I will get rid of gun free zones in schools. And on military bases, my first day it gets signed. There's no more gun free zones," Trump says.
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