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14th August 2015, 12:49 PM
This should be a hoot, especially with Hillary there.
I hope the media covers it fairly.
The Donald Show to arrive by chopper
Jennifer Jacobs, jejacobs@dmreg.com 5:52 a.m. CDT August 14, 2015
The Donald Show will make a big Iowa entrance on Saturday.
Donald Trump, the newly crowned frontrunner in the GOP presidential race in Iowa, will arrive by helicopter for his afternoon at the Iowa State Fairgrounds, campaign aides said Thursday.
The private chopper will land in a fenced field near the fairgrounds as reporters with television cameras watch. He'll step up to the mass of microphones and open himself up to press questions.
Then, aides said in a news release, "At 1 p.m. Mr. Trump will proceed into the fair for meet and greet. He will be seeing the butter cow."
His visit could collide with that of the frontrunner in the Democratic race in Iowa — Hillary Clinton will be at the State Fair on Saturday, as well.
Trump is digging in hard to organize for the first-in-the-nation caucuses on Feb. 1, Trump's Iowa strategist, Chuck Laudner, told The Des Moines Register on Thursday.
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The campaign has opened his first campaign office here, in a West Des Moines space just south of Valley West Mall, Laudner said.
A blue campaign bus emblazoned with "TRUMP: Make America great again" is essentially a second campaign office, he said.
The campaign advertises the bus's schedule and invites Iowans to stop by for free goodies like T-shirts. Aides collect their contact information and invite supporters to sign on as volunteers and county campaign chairs — and the lists are growing daily, Laudner said.
Trump has authorized his campaign to build on its current ground force of 10 staffers, but so many volunteers have come forward to help throughout the state that said they really don't need to hire more staff right now, Laudner said.
"Between me and Ryan Keller, we've got enough political hacks," Laudner said with a laugh, referring to Trump's deputy Iowa director.
Last presidential election cycle, Laudner's candidate was a virtually anonymous Pennsylvania Republican operating on a shoestring budget. Rick Santorum, who at times struggled to attract an audience of five people, went on to win the 2012 caucuses.
Trump, a billionaire real estate mogul, is mostly self-financing his campaign, although Iowans in recent days have begun to receive emails soliciting financial donations.
"I am rising in the polls because of you — and the fact that I am offering the American people an alternative to the inept career politicians who talk big but never produce results," Trump said in one email, circulated by the Daily Caller to its readers. "I have a long track record of producing big results. Very big results."
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Trump said in the fundraising request that he'd personally match donations.
His full-throttle effort here has begun to gain national attention.
"An Iowa surprise: Donald Trump is actually trying to win," the Washington Post said in a headline of a news story published online Thursday afternoon.
"You cannot swing a dead cat in Iowa and not hit a Trump person," conservative Iowa influencer Sam Clovis, who is state chairman for Rick Perry's presidential campaign, told the Post. "It's unlike anything I've ever seen. ... Every event we go to — the Boone County Eisenhower Social, the Black Hawk County Lincoln Dinner, the Boots and Barbecue down in Denison — the Trump people are everywhere with literature and T-shirts and signing people up."
Why are so many people — including Iowans who have never participated in the caucuses before — hopping on the Trump bandwagon?
Laudner told the Register: "People are fed up with politicians as usual, which leads to government as usual."
Trump's staff agreed to credential Register reporters for access to his chopper landing event. Last month, Trump decided to exclude the Register from his Oskaloosa rally as punishment for an editorial the opinion staff wrote calling on Trump to quit the race.
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2015/08/13/donald-show-will-arrive-chopper/31662915/
I hope the media covers it fairly.
The Donald Show to arrive by chopper
Jennifer Jacobs, jejacobs@dmreg.com 5:52 a.m. CDT August 14, 2015
The Donald Show will make a big Iowa entrance on Saturday.
Donald Trump, the newly crowned frontrunner in the GOP presidential race in Iowa, will arrive by helicopter for his afternoon at the Iowa State Fairgrounds, campaign aides said Thursday.
The private chopper will land in a fenced field near the fairgrounds as reporters with television cameras watch. He'll step up to the mass of microphones and open himself up to press questions.
Then, aides said in a news release, "At 1 p.m. Mr. Trump will proceed into the fair for meet and greet. He will be seeing the butter cow."
His visit could collide with that of the frontrunner in the Democratic race in Iowa — Hillary Clinton will be at the State Fair on Saturday, as well.
Trump is digging in hard to organize for the first-in-the-nation caucuses on Feb. 1, Trump's Iowa strategist, Chuck Laudner, told The Des Moines Register on Thursday.
DES MOINES REGISTER
CNN/ORC poll: Walker drops, Trump rises in Iowa
The campaign has opened his first campaign office here, in a West Des Moines space just south of Valley West Mall, Laudner said.
A blue campaign bus emblazoned with "TRUMP: Make America great again" is essentially a second campaign office, he said.
The campaign advertises the bus's schedule and invites Iowans to stop by for free goodies like T-shirts. Aides collect their contact information and invite supporters to sign on as volunteers and county campaign chairs — and the lists are growing daily, Laudner said.
Trump has authorized his campaign to build on its current ground force of 10 staffers, but so many volunteers have come forward to help throughout the state that said they really don't need to hire more staff right now, Laudner said.
"Between me and Ryan Keller, we've got enough political hacks," Laudner said with a laugh, referring to Trump's deputy Iowa director.
Last presidential election cycle, Laudner's candidate was a virtually anonymous Pennsylvania Republican operating on a shoestring budget. Rick Santorum, who at times struggled to attract an audience of five people, went on to win the 2012 caucuses.
Trump, a billionaire real estate mogul, is mostly self-financing his campaign, although Iowans in recent days have begun to receive emails soliciting financial donations.
"I am rising in the polls because of you — and the fact that I am offering the American people an alternative to the inept career politicians who talk big but never produce results," Trump said in one email, circulated by the Daily Caller to its readers. "I have a long track record of producing big results. Very big results."
DES MOINES REGISTER
Editorial: Trump should pull the plug on his bloviating side show
Trump said in the fundraising request that he'd personally match donations.
His full-throttle effort here has begun to gain national attention.
"An Iowa surprise: Donald Trump is actually trying to win," the Washington Post said in a headline of a news story published online Thursday afternoon.
"You cannot swing a dead cat in Iowa and not hit a Trump person," conservative Iowa influencer Sam Clovis, who is state chairman for Rick Perry's presidential campaign, told the Post. "It's unlike anything I've ever seen. ... Every event we go to — the Boone County Eisenhower Social, the Black Hawk County Lincoln Dinner, the Boots and Barbecue down in Denison — the Trump people are everywhere with literature and T-shirts and signing people up."
Why are so many people — including Iowans who have never participated in the caucuses before — hopping on the Trump bandwagon?
Laudner told the Register: "People are fed up with politicians as usual, which leads to government as usual."
Trump's staff agreed to credential Register reporters for access to his chopper landing event. Last month, Trump decided to exclude the Register from his Oskaloosa rally as punishment for an editorial the opinion staff wrote calling on Trump to quit the race.
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2015/08/13/donald-show-will-arrive-chopper/31662915/