{"id":27283,"date":"2016-01-29T16:08:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T22:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=27283"},"modified":"2016-01-30T09:26:07","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T15:26:07","slug":"at-trump-rally-a-crowd-of-more-than-die-hard-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/at-trump-rally-a-crowd-of-more-than-die-hard-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"At Trump rally, a crowd of more than die-hard fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Max Greenwood<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>DES MOINES, Iowa &#8212; <\/strong>When Donald Trump decided to skip Thursday night&#8217;s GOP debate, plenty of supporters showed up at his last-minute rally just three miles away.<\/p>\n<p>So did lots of other people, from the simply curious to the outright opposed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really just here to see the spectacle that is Donald Trump,\u201d Braden Stanley, 22, a senior at Drake University, which hosted the event as a benefit for military veterans&#8217; charities.\u00a0 \u201cHe\u2019s loud, he\u2019s entertaining; it\u2019s just something I had to see while I have the opportunity.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_27423\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27423\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/category\/topics\/election2016\/iowa-caucuses\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27423\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/01\/MedillReportsLogo1-300x141.jpg\" alt=\"Campaign 2016\" width=\"300\" height=\"141\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/01\/MedillReportsLogo1-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/01\/MedillReportsLogo1.jpg 556w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click here to check out all of Medill Reports&#8217; coverage of the Iowa Caucus and the road to the white house.<\/figcaption><\/figure>Stanley plans to caucus for Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders on Monday as Iowa launches the 2016 presidential season. Jason Carsello, another Drake student and Sanders supporter, said he wanted to the \u201ccultural difference\u201d between Sanders and Trump events.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s pretty clear that [Trump] doesn\u2019t deal with people who disagree with him very well,\u201d Carsello said. \u201cWith Bernie\u2019s people, things seem more open, so I just really wanted to see this. How often does Donald Trump come to your school?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just outside the rally, protesters holding signs that said, \u201cDump Trump,\u201d argued with security guards. Other spectators were removed from the auditorium after shouting criticisms of Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Celander, 23, said he was there to support veterans, rather than Trump himself. He plans to caucus for a Republican candidate. He is leaning toward Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy guy isn\u2019t here tonight, but that doesn\u2019t mean I can\u2019t respect Donald Trump for this,\u201d Celander said. \u201cI\u2019m here to support veterans, and just hear what he has to say. I mean, he\u2019s an interesting guy, just not who I think I\u2019m going to caucus for.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\">Photo at top: Supporters gather outside a Trump Rally Thursday to watch the GOP frontrunner speak. But the event drew opposition as well, including supporters of Bernie Sanders and Marco Rubio. (Max Greenwood\/MEDILL)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Max Greenwood DES MOINES, Iowa &#8212; When Donald Trump decided to skip Thursday night&#8217;s GOP debate, plenty of supporters showed up at his last-minute rally just three miles away. So did lots of other people, from the simply curious to the outright opposed. \u201cI\u2019m really just here to see the spectacle that is Donald [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":27284,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[452,766,30,978,585],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beyond-chicago","category-election2016","category-public-affairs","category-iowa-caucuses","category-winter-2016"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>At Trump rally, a crowd of more than die-hard fans - Medill Reports Chicago<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/at-trump-rally-a-crowd-of-more-than-die-hard-fans\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"At Trump rally, a crowd of more than die-hard fans - Medill Reports Chicago\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Max Greenwood DES MOINES, Iowa &#8212; When Donald Trump decided to skip Thursday night&#8217;s GOP debate, plenty of supporters showed up at his last-minute rally just three miles away. 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