{"id":27528,"date":"2016-01-30T15:11:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T21:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=27528"},"modified":"2016-01-30T15:11:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T21:11:06","slug":"the-strange-power-of-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/the-strange-power-of-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"The strange power of Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Alison Martin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>DAVENPORT, Iowa &#8212;<\/strong> For some undecided Iowa voters, the head and heart don\u2019t agree. While Margaret Osborne listens attentively to Chris Christie at a town hall meeting in Davenport, Iowa, her heart can\u2019t forget the passion and excitement of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Every four years, Osborne and her mother, Patricia, attend rallies and town hall meetings for all types of presidential candidates, hoping to see as many as possible before heading to the caucuses. Before Christie, Osborne and her mother saw Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe love politics,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Going into the Trump rally, Osborne did not know what to expect. The snippets she saw on TV painted a portrait of Trump as brash, arrogant, a bit of a blowhard.<\/p>\n<p>On stage, a different Trump revealed himself.<\/p>\n<p>This Trump smiled, cracked jokes and appeared genuinely concerned with the fate of the country. To Osborne, here was a man so patriotic that he joined the presidential race just to fix what he saw was wrong with the United States.<!--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>\u201cWhat you hear is what he is,\u201d she said, calling him &#8220;much more down-to-earth than on TV.&#8221; She found the rally \u201cinformative, engaging and enlightening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The crowd screamed and chanted. Osborne said she never felt more patriotic or proud of her country in her life.<\/p>\n<p>Towards the end of the rally, Trump walked close to where Osborne and her mother were standing. She shouted out to him, \u201cMr. Trump, America needs you!\u201d And in a quiet aside that only she may have heard, he replied,\u00a0 \u201cWell, we\u2019re going to try.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, given her delight, what logic could overpower the heart\u2019s passion? Osborne reconsidered her feelings when Trump called for a ban on admitting Muslims to the United States. Though her head and heart have yet to fully reconcile, perhaps Trump\u2019s anti-Muslim policy may be what finally brings them together &#8211; in support of another candidate.<\/p>\n<div class=\"featurcaption\">Photo at top: Donald Trump supporters waited outside in freezing temperatures for hours after being shut out of his debate boycott event (Caroline Kenny\/MEDILL)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alison Martin DAVENPORT, Iowa &#8212; For some undecided Iowa voters, the head and heart don\u2019t agree. While Margaret Osborne listens attentively to Chris Christie at a town hall meeting in Davenport, Iowa, her heart can\u2019t forget the passion and excitement of Donald Trump. Every four years, Osborne and her mother, Patricia, attend rallies and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":27288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[452,766,1145,30,1144,978,585],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beyond-chicago","category-election2016","category-election-2016","category-public-affairs","category-the-iowa-caucuses","category-iowa-caucuses","category-winter-2016"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The strange power of Donald Trump - 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\/the-strange-power-of-donald-trump\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The strange power of Donald Trump - Medill Reports Chicago\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Alison Martin DAVENPORT, Iowa &#8212; For some undecided Iowa voters, the head and heart don\u2019t agree. 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