Posted on 05/05/2016 2:33:41 AM PDT by nikos1121
Thursday, May 5, 2016: Live Stream of the Donald Trump for President rally in Charleston, WV at the Charleston Civic Center beginning at 7:00 PM EDT
Charleston, WV
Charleston is the capital and largest city of the State of West Virginia. It is located at the confluence of the Elk and Kanawha Rivers in Kanawha County. As of the 2013 Census Estimate, it had a population of 50,821, while its metropolitan area had 224,743. It is a center of government, commerce, and industry.
Early industries important to Charleston included salt and the first natural gas well. Later, coal became central to economic prosperity in the city and the surrounding area. Today, trade, utilities, government, medicine, and education play central roles in the city's economy.
Storm over Downtown
Coal Barge on the Kanawha River
Capitol Street Downtown Charleston
Civic Center
This rally tonight should give us an idea of how Trump oompares to Hillary Clinton as she was in the state a few days ago.
Morning in America. Again.
Good morning, Nikos!
That is an impressive civic center.
Trump will pack the house and then some.
The coal mining situation in WV is dire, and the folks know the Dems have shafted them.
I believe WV will be big for Trump.
Like he said the other night—he will get those coal miners back to work.
In a prior lifetime, I spent a year driving from Dayton, OH every week to Charleston for business consulting. I knew every bump in the road.
At that time, many chemical companies were based there and their manufacturing exhausts caused paint to peel from the bridges.
That said, the people were absolutely wonderful and the hills & mountain scenery were splendid.
IIRC, the Charleston airport is tricky to land due to being located in the hills/mountains - like hitting a small spot in a forest without much room outside the landing strip.
Looks like the seating capacity is 13,500 when configured as shown in your picture, Nikos.
That’s yuuuuge for WV!
http://www.charlestonwvciviccenter.com/p/about
“The coal mining situation in WV is dire, and the folks know the Dems have shafted them.”
And that meeting PIAPS had with a few miners didn’t help her at all. She sat there and lied to them. And she’s not even good at it. They know she was lying.
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And tonite he walks onto the stage without the baggage of Cruz & Kasich to deal with.
The cheering should be epic.
Have a great dinner and rest well,WVK!
We will catch you as you have breakfast, as we finish dinner tonight in time for the 7:00 pm rally.
Life is about to become absolutely miserable for Hillary AND Bill Clinton, courtesy of one Donald J. Trump, Sr. and the FBI.
I’ve been waiting 24 years for this.
What a great family—we pray for their protection.
Hillary dug herself an entire mine with those lies.
The coal miners are going to love Trump.
Same with those in PA,OH and IN.
They no longer care what their union bosses say.
They will vote Trump.
Good morning nikos and all!. Thanks for the thread.
I’m really looking forward to seeing Trump tonight. It does feel different this morning nikos. Like a new phase, which it actually is.
I pray for Trump, as many of us do.
Go TRUMP!!
I need some advice. I went to my lunch group, conservative ladies, yesterday and they were all Cruz supporters. I understand they need to go through some grieving process, but their views on Cruz were 180 degrees away from mine. It was really surreal. How can people view things so differently? I did not say anything and left early. I may not go back for a few weeks.
“They no longer care what their union bosses say.”
Maybe this is the year union members will realize they’ve been played for chumps so that their pimp union leaders can line their own pockets and live the high life.
Ok, I’ve seen PIAPS before, but my foggy brain can’t reason out what it means. Help? LOL
Pig In A Pants Suit.
Give them time to grieve.
You were right, and they were all wrong.
Next time, steer the conversation to where we go from here: Trump or Hillary?
It cannot be Hillary, and they will soon realize that.
If they persist, point out how Cruz was the cause of his own failure—the lies, the delegate manipulation, the Glenn Back alliance, the Kasich alliance, the Carly VP appointment, his public meltdown on the day of the Indiana primary—all showed he is not the man for the job.
If they reject all of that—then it is time for a new lunch group.
Otherwise your IQ will be lowered.
That WV venue looks huge. I'm sure Trump fills every seat. From this point on, Trump should be filling stadiums and arenas.
I read some MSM rag refer to WV as a swing state.
Are they having a laugh? Stuck in 1996? Wishful thinking?
Coal gets the headlines but guns will always be the deciding issue and the voters correctly noted that Gore and the Dems were and are gun grabbers.
WV is red no matter how badly the milquetoast writers deceive themselves.
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