Posted on 02/14/2016 6:02:39 PM PST by nikos1121
Okay, I know it's like almost 24 hours until this starts, but everyone is mailing me to start a thread. And frankly, I'm excited too.
This could be the beginning of the end to this primary fight as the winner potentially can take all 50 delegates. I will tell you how this can happen later.
Monday, February 15, 2016: GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump will hold a campaign rally in Greenville, SC at the TD Convention Center. The event is scheduled to begin at 7:00 PM EST.
GREENVILLE, SC
This is the first stop in a busy week for Donald Trump.
UPCOMING LIVE EVENTS
Donald Trump Rally in North Augusta, SC (2-16-16)
Donald Trump Rally in Walterboro, SC (2-17-16)
Donald Trump Rally in Sumter, SC (2-17-16)
Donald Trump Rally in Myrtle Beach, SC (2-19-16)
Trump was here on August 28, 2015 speaking to a sold out crowd of 1500 people who attended the rally in the TD Convention Center.
In fact, it was here that he had a young lady pull on his hair to prove that it was not a wig.
Greenville, SC has a population of 62,252 as of 2014. It is the sixth-largest municipality in the state. The population of the surrounding area was 400,492 as of 2010, making it the third-largest urban area in South Carolina as well as the fastest growing.
CHEROKEE NATION
Those of you who have followed my background information of the city hosting the rallies, we once again have a story about the Cherokee Nation, siding with the Loyalists over the Patriots, and being chased off their land, but with a slightly different twist.
The land of present-day Greenville was once the hunting ground of the Cherokee which was forbidden to colonists. A settler named Richard Pearis married a Cherokee woman and received about 100,000 acres from the Cherokee around 1770. Pearis established a plantation on the Reedy River called the Great Plains in present-day downtown Greenville.
The American Revolution divided the South Carolina country between the Loyalists and Patriots. Pearis supported the Loyalists and together with their allies the Cherokee attacked the Patriots. The Patriots retaliated by burning down Pearis' plantation and jailing him in Charleston.
Pearis never returned to his plantation but Paris Mountain is named after him. The Treaty of Dewitt's Corner in 1777 ceded almost all Cherokee land, including present-day Greenville, to South Carolina.
If makes you wonder, had the Cherokee sided with the Patriots, would the outcome for them have been different?
CIVIL WAR
Greenville in the 1850s favored Union until events such as John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry and Abraham Lincoln's election persuaded the town to vote secession in 1860.
During the American Civil War Pleasantburg became a town for refugees fleeing from the Union Army. The town supplied food, clothing, and firearms to the Confederacy.
Greenville saw no action from the war until 1865 when Federal troops came through the town looking for President Jefferson Davis of the Confederacy.
Thank you to Wikipedia.
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Creepy!
It is very hard to get rid of head lice.
I have my ticket in hand for this rally tomorrow. I can’t wait! I will be out of town Saturday so I already voted for Trump absentee. That’s one vote in the bank already.
Can hardly wait for Saturday and then the March 1 primaries. I heard CNN is holding some kind of town hall event this wed & Thur with the remaining GOP candidates.
I’m sure Silk had to have a drink on that one!
LOL. They crack me up.
Lucky you!
Have fun and report in!
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Trump has added another rally for tomorrow:
Mount Pleasant, SC
Holiday Inn Charleston-Mt Pleasant
12 pm
This will be followed by a press conference:
​Charleston, SC
2:30 PM
http://www.donaldjtrump.com/schedule
Sorry screwed my numbers.
#2 Bo H
#3 Joanne W
#4 Joe J
#5 Jesse H
Believe it or not but think it is fitting for Mike Murdock to endorse Mr. Trump!
WOW 8 rallies from tomorrow thru Friday!
Trump is the energizer bunny!
Can't watch. If I have to look at Bush again I'm going to run screaming down the street.
I will!
....or bedbugs for that matter.
A photoshop opportunity if there ever was one.
Vote Trump!
You’ll notice that there aren’t any scheduled for Thursday. I’ll bet that at least one will be added later for Thursday, maybe 2. It will be a big week. All of them will be maximum capacity, so in this week alone, Trump will have more people at his rallies than all the others combined, probably several times their combined totals.
But, if Bush could teach his lucky pocket turtle to talk, and could get the turtle to endorse him, I’d watch that.
One of my first articles posted on Free Republic was Scalia’s dissenting decision in the Playboy case back in 2000. I knew a government librarian and she sent it to me.
That was also a huge rant and argument that introduced me to the nastier side of Free Republic when I just a noob.
Years later I went to a lunch at the Athletic Club where he spoke. All lawyers but me, and they had the best questions. At the time Judge Napolitano was touting the Declaration of Independence as part of our legal code and Scalia kind of clarified the issue. Other interesting questions that I can’t remember now.
The room was thick with the respect that everyone had for him. It was palpable, as they say. Very impressive event.
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