Donald Trump scored the biggest crowd of any presidential candidate so far this election year Friday, drawing 30,000 raucous, cheering fans to his rally at a college football stadium in Mobile, Alabama
Mobile, Ala., doesn’t usually host presidential primary rallies. But this weekend it’s expected to host a doozy. Donald Trump will take over Ladd-Peebles Stadium, usually home to high school football games on Friday nights, not presidential pep rallies. Trump’s campaign shifted from a smaller venue to the stadium after seeing big demand for tickets; it expects 35,000 to attend.
He has grand showmanship but a very clear message. Roaring overhead in his personal Boeing 757, Donald Trump circled the Alabama stadium packed with fans waiting for an evening campaign pep rally — not once but twice on Friday night.
Republican Donald Trump is pulling away from the pack in the race for the party’s U.S. presidential nomination, widening his lead over his closest rivals in the past week, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Friday.
A battery of new poll numbers from Quinnipiac University paints an interesting portrait of the state of the election. (A portrait that will change dramatically over time, growing steadily older and less appealing, like that one Dorian owned, so we may all stay young at heart by ignoring it.)
Donald Trump is now the frontrunner in Texas, according to the latest survey. Trump now polls at 24 percent there, roughly what he gets nationally. Cruz drops to second in his home state with 16 percent.
