Posted on 08/13/2015 3:20:48 PM PDT by Hojczyk
For five days, the royal-blue bus rumbled through miles of cornfields alongside a popular annual bicycle trek across Iowa. It showed up at a country music concert in Cherokee and at a bacon festival in Ottumwa.
And when the hulking vehicle with thick white block letters that spell T-R-U-M-P pulled into a Wal-Mart parking lot in Fort Dodge this week, people flocked to it. It didn’t matter that Donald Trump wasn’t inside. The bus alone — with the “Make America Great Again” slogan extending across its sides — created an irresistible oasis of celebrity politics amid a desert of minivans and shopping carts.
“One hundred people showing up for a staffer? I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Chuck Laudner, a veteran Iowa organizer who oversees Trump’s efforts here. “They kept saying the same thing: They want something different.”
For many Americans, the Trump presidential campaign amounts to a billionaire talking endlessly, and entertainingly, on television. But here in Iowa, it’s another story. Trump is trying to beat the politicians at their own game, building one of the most extensive field organizations in the Republican field.
The groundwork laid by Trump’s sizable Iowa staff, with 10 paid operatives and growing, is the clearest sign yet that the unconventional candidate is looking beyond his summer media surge and attempting to win February’s first-in-the-nation caucuses.
“You cannot swing a dead cat in Iowa and not hit a Trump person,” Clovis continued. “It’s unlike anything I’ve ever seen. . . . Every event we go to — the Boone County Eisenhower Social, the Black Hawk County Lincoln Dinner, the Boots and Barbecue down in Denison — the Trump people are everywhere with literature and T-shirts and signing people up.
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Watch out Iowa, here come the Stormtrumpers!
/JUST kidding
I hope Trump wins Iowa in such a landslide that Mexico starts building the wall.
Dang, missed it by one week.
I would assume he is. He hired a staff here.
I’m not supporting Trump; but admire the fact that he put his own money into trying to bring change.
This immigration thing as way bigger than I even imagined… 41 million
How many immigrants to the US are there each year?
1,250,000.
According to the 2009 National Population Projection, produced by the US Census Bureau, the immigrant population in the US is increased approximately by 1,250,000 per year. The immigrants come mainly from Latin America (over 50%), followed by those from Asia (around 20%). The vast majority of this population (over 80%) lives under illegality.
The country only gained 2,000,000 per year if you believe the numbers
How many retire each year ??
Reflected on a couple comments here and agree. How can we take any candidate seriously that doesn’t speak as strongly as Trump and Cruz on immigration? I expect more out of Walker too, come on Scott we have a problem. There is no country without a border. Madness.
Trump is not going to run a half azz campaign anymore than he runs a half azz business. Why is anybody surprised he’s got a good ground team in the early primary states?
That’s funny !
Dr Ben is doing an awesome job in the inner cities.
Carson and Trump are Friends
Cruz and trump are friends
Combine the three the Hispanic , African American and Trumpster and we have a conservative -republican landslide
You heard it here first
If they came here following the immigration rules they are legal and immigrants.
If the didn't they aren't immigrants...
That my Friend is hilarious. I have no other words.
Ignore The Donald at your own peril.
Tee Hee!
Trump hired Iowa’s Chuck Laudner months ago. For those who don’t know, Laudner is a for-real conservative, pal of Steve King, and engineer of Rick Santorum’s surprisingly successful person-to-person 2011/2012 Iowa campaign, which was carried out with a very minimum budget.
Its an invasion. The politicians want to elect a new people. A people who have no familiarity with the Constitution or personal liberties. And most importantly, a people who are USED to being broke. See, we Americans over 30 still have memories of how it used to be.
Its now or never. Go Trump!
I forgot the other person that I was chatting with about this the other day, but we were all discussing things that “traditional” campaigns had-—staffers, organization-—and the other person said there was no evidence of that with Trump. Well, this article contradicts that, and 150 people coming out for a STAFFER? Hell, Cankles can’t get 150 people out for herself!
How mu have money? Not m7ch. Socialists use other people’s money.
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