Posted on 12/08/2020 11:20:32 AM PST by Kaslin
I wish every American could attend a Trump rally. I attended a couple of them in Central Florida as a local media personality, but the Valdosta rally was the first time I got to hang around with with my people in the crowd. It was one of the most exciting and unique experiences you can imagine. Here’s what happened:
On Sunday afternoon a friend of mine joined my wife and I on a road trip to Valdosta, Georgia, for the Victory Rally, featuring President Trump and Republican Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue. Both senators are in runoff elections against their radical Democratic opponents, Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff. The races will be decided on January 5, 2021, unless Democrats magically find eleventh hour absentee ballots underneath a conveniently placed table. The outcome of these races will determine the direction of our country.
We decided to travel to Georgia because we wanted to show our support for President Trump’s effort to fight for fair elections as well as see if there was any enthusiasm for reelecting Sens. Loeffler and Perdue. There was, but it was conditional. I’ll get back to that shortly. What we didn’t expect was the immediate camaraderie we felt among fellow patriots. But even more impressive was how many people were willing to show up for a “post-election” rally that was literally located in the middle of nowhere – this point can’t be overstated! There must have been 25,000 or more people there.
The Valdosta airport is in an obscure location to say the least. We arrived approximately 90 minutes before the rally began and we parked 1.5 miles away in one of the many fields apparently designated for the event. They were huge fields blanketed by pickup trucks and tall dry grass that looked like hay. It was obvious the areas had been cleared with a brush cutter of sorts. It was frigid and cold. The temperature was 46 degrees. If this were a normal day, given the locale of the parking, I would’ve assumed we were right smack in the middle of a hunting excursion. The point is, both the geography of the rally, and the fact that this was a post-election rally made this particular event and the crowd size far more impressive than the rallies I attended in the past.
Thankfully, after walking nearly a mile we spotted large charter buses taxiing people back and forth to the airport. There must have been a couple dozen of these buses. The logistics it took to pull off this event and make it run as smoothly as it did was nothing short of impressive.
Furthermore, the left would’ve been so proud of the diversity of the crowd, wink-wink. On the bus, we were seated next to straight up hillbillies, directly behind us sat some Christian/Rastafarian type black guys with dreads that broke out in song singing “the Zion train is coming your way,” followed by “the Trump train is coming your way.” In front of us sat some Latino veterans and a black married couple that drove down from South Carolina to support Trump. Two white women that drove down together from Alabama were hilariously funny. It honestly felt like we were on a road trip with long lost friends. We had some great conversations. As a black man, one of the conversations I had that was most interesting to me was with a retired Georgia cop that happened to be white. As one of the ladies from Alabama said jokingly, we were “red-pilling” each other. We all shared a common bond. We love our country, we love freedom, and we love our president.
Admittedly, what was most surprising to me and somewhat alarming were the amount of Chinese people there sounding the alarm against communism. Not only were they in the crowd, but dozens of them were directly outside of the entrance passing out anti-communist and anti-CCP material. They were warning their fellow Americans of the dangers of communism and why a Joe Biden administration that’s friendly to China would be bad for America.
Circling back to Loeffler and Perdue, when they got up to speak the crowd shouted, “fight for Trump.” Every Trump supporter I met agreed that we needed them to win the Georgia senatorial runoff elections as a safeguard against socialism, but they also wanted the senators to know that they believed the presidency was stolen from President Trump and they expected them to do something about it.
In my view, the Valdosta, Georgia, rally was a true representation of what America really is – a bunch of people who don’t look like me, don’t talk like me, don’t dress like me, don’t have the same life experiences as me, and don’t always agree with me, but they love freedom and they love everyone who loves freedom too.
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Nice to see silver linings.
Praying for a Trump victory over the fraud of the left.
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Excellent article - thank you for posting!
Just curious to know if the Trump organizers asked you to fill out a voter info card?
I have relatives there, and Waycross and all over the general area.................
I’ve been to three Trump rallies...August 2016,2019 (can’t recall the month) and February 2020.All in New Hampshire.it seems that unless I’m willing to travel many,many miles I’ll never get another chance.
It would be interesting to see scans of the material the Chinese folks were passing out. Every American should probably read them.
Thanks for posting this report!
That’s what I love about Trump rallies...it’s just people who love America and their primary identity is as Americans who love freedom. They want to be free from being defined by their sex, their color, whatever, and just free to create, have businesses, go to church or synagogue, and have families in a stable, respectful environment where the future looks brighter every day.
That’s what Trump offered, and that’s what people want.
conservatives/pubs/patriots.....we're so disorganized...
there was a Trump train thru my area last Sunday and I never heard a thing about it, thank God I drove by them....
Just so you know I am not the author of the op-ed. You would have to ask the author at Townhall.com
I am so very happy for you, your wife and your friend that you got to revel in that experience. It sounds like an incredible day.
And that information about the Chinese people warning of a Biden presidency is fascinating. It might be too late; it might not, but President Trump should consider making some sort of infomercial with willing Chinese people who made it over and have some warnings about an impending Biden presidency.
Even if it does nothing, it will be part of the public record and could wake some people up.
There is no way Trump lost this election.
And they say that #NOJOE won. BS.
Nice report from Carl Jackson.
One point—having lived in North Dakota in the past, and living in Chicagoland now, I beg to differ that 46 degrees is “frigid and cold.”
Eh unless wind-chill was a huge factor ;)
Likely Carl lives in a warm climate—another clue is that he said “frigid and cold” which is redundant ;) I hope to be in a warm climate sooner than later :)
THANKS FOR THAT........
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I went to Carson City and Minden to see The President.
Freaking awesome and I could not believe I was in a crowd and didn’t have a panic attack for the 1st time ever.
Amazing events and sitting 3rd row dead center from the President and him saying, two of my friends, “I love you too” and pointing at me as I screaming at the top of my lungs.
It was every Christmas and Birthday all in one.
Great article... No way did Biden won the election. If he gets the office, America will never have an honest election.
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