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Trump Campaign Bombs in Virginia, Again
Empty bleachers and a hostile student body greeted Trump vice presidential nominee Mike Pence in Virginia on Saturday at one of the most religiously conservative schools in the country.
PURCELLVILLE, Va. ā Mike Pence definitely chose the wrong place to give a stump speech.
Trumpās VP nominee railed against Hillary Clinton in Northern Virginia on Saturday afternoonābut he chose to do it at an evangelical Christian college with a history of anti-Trump sentiment. Students protested outside, while inside students stood in silent protest until they were ejected mid-speech.
The protests and poor attendance at the speech at Patrick Henry College illustrate the challenges that Trump has appealing to evangelical Christians, especially younger ones, who are turned off by his tone, his campaign ideas and his personal historyāand are not at all assauged by his choice of Pence for his running mate.
āThe PHC student body as a whole is very anti-Trump. A lot of them say, āI donāt like him but Iām going to turn up my nose and vote for him because I like Hillary even less.ā But overall there is a severe disgust with Trump,ā said Sebastian Lopez, a junior studying political theory at the school who was protesting the speech, holding a sign for hours outside in the blazing mid-day sun.
āI donāt think that Mike Pence is a bad person, but I think he has made an alliance with someone who is completely unacceptable from a libertarian, conservative or progressive standpoint,ā added Christian McGuire, a junior at Patrick Henry College studying American politics who was also demonstrating against Pence.
McGuire estimated 75 percent of the student body opposed Trump.
Penceās visit is not the first misstep by the Trump campaign in Virginia. Donald Trump flubbed his speech in Northern Virginia earlier this month when he lectured the affluent locals in the audience as if they were the Rust BeltāāYouāre doing lousy over here,ā he remarkedāand then listed factory closures in far-flung areas of the state that were hours away, as well as a plant that closed in North Carolina.
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More at the link.
Trump Campaign Bombs in Virginia, Again
Empty bleachers and a hostile student body greeted Trump vice presidential nominee Mike Pence in Virginia on Saturday at one of the most religiously conservative schools in the country.
PURCELLVILLE, Va. ā Mike Pence definitely chose the wrong place to give a stump speech.
Trumpās VP nominee railed against Hillary Clinton in Northern Virginia on Saturday afternoonābut he chose to do it at an evangelical Christian college with a history of anti-Trump sentiment. Students protested outside, while inside students stood in silent protest until they were ejected mid-speech.
The protests and poor attendance at the speech at Patrick Henry College illustrate the challenges that Trump has appealing to evangelical Christians, especially younger ones, who are turned off by his tone, his campaign ideas and his personal historyāand are not at all assauged by his choice of Pence for his running mate.
āThe PHC student body as a whole is very anti-Trump. A lot of them say, āI donāt like him but Iām going to turn up my nose and vote for him because I like Hillary even less.ā But overall there is a severe disgust with Trump,ā said Sebastian Lopez, a junior studying political theory at the school who was protesting the speech, holding a sign for hours outside in the blazing mid-day sun.
āI donāt think that Mike Pence is a bad person, but I think he has made an alliance with someone who is completely unacceptable from a libertarian, conservative or progressive standpoint,ā added Christian McGuire, a junior at Patrick Henry College studying American politics who was also demonstrating against Pence.
McGuire estimated 75 percent of the student body opposed Trump.
Penceās visit is not the first misstep by the Trump campaign in Virginia. Donald Trump flubbed his speech in Northern Virginia earlier this month when he lectured the affluent locals in the audience as if they were the Rust BeltāāYouāre doing lousy over here,ā he remarkedāand then listed factory closures in far-flung areas of the state that were hours away, as well as a plant that closed in North Carolina.
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More at the link.
