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| Trump ends Illinois rally with poem about terrorism — campaign live | Trump ends Illinois rally with poem about terrorism — campaign live |
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| 7.54pm GMT | |
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| Megan Carpentier | |
| Megan Carpentier is still outside the Cincinnati rally, where pro- and anti-Trump bands are acting up. | |
| As Trump spoke in the venue, roving groups of Trump supporters and protestors milled outside the event, mingling and exchanging insults. | |
| In the designated protest area, a group of young people yelled “Dump Trump!” at passersby, who sometimes responded with insults. “Fuck you, you commie! Go back to Africa!” yelled one, at the most vociferous protestor. | |
| “Fuck you, you’re the one voting for a commie!” he yelled back. | |
| A group of very young men in American flag clothes rolled up and started blowing an air horn at them, to jeers from the protestors: “Ooh, your mommy bought you an air horn!” | |
| The woman who’d harassed me pointed at the kids with an air horn and laughed. | |
| 7.49pm GMT | |
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| Trump is on the stage in Cincinnati, where he waits for protesters to be escorted out and his supporters boo the demonstrators. | |
| Once they’re out, they chant: “Trump! Trump! Trump!” | |
| The candidate kicks off by saying that his wife and daughter asked him not to engage with rivals during the last Republican debate. They asked him to be presidential, Trump says. | |
| “I said, ‘I can’t do that. When they go after you I have to go back at them.’” | |
| He criticizes Ohio governor John Kasich, saying, “he ran Lehman Brothers into the ground” and almost destroyed the world’s economy. Kasich made hundreds of thousands while with the financial firm until it collapsed in 2008 – along with the US economy – but Kasich was not at all a central player in running the company. | |
| Then its on to boasting about elections. “I won evangelicals the day after the pope scolded me,” he says, apparently having missed the 16th-century religious revolution and counter-revolution that separated Protestants from Catholics, and the subsequent centuries of American revivalism that created the loose group of sects we call “evangelicals” today. | |
| “I said, ‘the pope!?’ I said, ‘well that’s a big problem.’ I said, ‘I like the pope.’” | |
| He’s talking about Pope Francis’ remarks that Trump’s desire to keep out immigrants is “not Christian”. Trump is Presbyterian, and the head of his church also disagrees with him on the issue. | |
| Then Trump says Pete Rose, the disgraced former athlete who bet on games as a baseball player, “should be in the Hall of Fame”. | |
| Related: Trump's own Christian denomination defies him on immigration policy | |
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| 7.23pm GMT | |
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| Megan Carpentier | |
| Donald Trump has just begun a rally in Cincinnati, Ohio, where my colleague Megan Carpentier is speaking with the fans and protesters outside. | |
| Though Secret Service shut the doors at 1.30pm and Donald Trump didn’t arrive at Cincinnati’s Savannah Center until nearly 3pm, hundreds of people stood out in the intermittent rain just to cheer his arrival. | |
| From under an awning where people were sheltering from the rain – by two men holding a banner reading “THE SILENT MAJORITY IS PISSED!” for attendees to add their signatures and a large Donald Trump impersonators – a yell went up when the motorcade was spotted and bedraggled fans rushed towards the entrance, slipping in the mud and jostling for position. | |
| “Trump! Trump! Trump!” some young men shouted, as people held cell phones and selfies sticks over the heads of the crowd and “The Donald”, as one older lady called him, waved at his fans before walking. Inside to take the stage. | |
| Pictures snapped, some people headed for their cars, while others retreated to the few dry spots to wait it out. | |
| Meanwhile, vendors selling both Trump-specific and general conservative swag worked the remaining crowd. “Oh, we’re local vendors,” one leathered older man said. “We offered him a donation, but he said he don’t want our money, just asked for our votes.” | |
| “He don’t need my money anyway.” | |
| Meanwhile, a short, middle-aged woman in a Trump shirt followed a trio of younger folks – a white woman in a hoodie, a white man in a blue T-shirt and duck camouflage cap (a popular Ohio print) and a black man with short dreadlocks – and shouted “Yeah, you better put your hoodie up!” at the girl. | |
| As I looked up, she glared at me, too. “How’d you get in here first?” she demanded. I smiled, and told her I hadn’t gotten in anywhere, as I was stuck outside in the rain. Satisfied, she wandered off. | |
| 7.00pm GMT | 7.00pm GMT |
| 19:00 | 19:00 |
| Things are getting weird in Boca Raton, Florida, where the Daily Beast’s Olivia Nuzzi is reporting for a Trump rally set to begin this evening. | Things are getting weird in Boca Raton, Florida, where the Daily Beast’s Olivia Nuzzi is reporting for a Trump rally set to begin this evening. |
| Scene from America, 2016: a woman on a scooter chases a man, dressed as Donald Trump's giant penis, around a park. | Scene from America, 2016: a woman on a scooter chases a man, dressed as Donald Trump's giant penis, around a park. |
| 6.48pm GMT | 6.48pm GMT |
| 18:48 | 18:48 |
| Meanwhile, hamming it up on the campaign trail, Bernie Sanders has a surprise guest in St Louis: | Meanwhile, hamming it up on the campaign trail, Bernie Sanders has a surprise guest in St Louis: |
| WATCH: @DannyDeVito surprises @BernieSanders rally in St. Louis: "We need you, Obi-Wan!" https://t.co/4RUewIWMHThttps://t.co/SvbyJCUt5S | WATCH: @DannyDeVito surprises @BernieSanders rally in St. Louis: "We need you, Obi-Wan!" https://t.co/4RUewIWMHThttps://t.co/SvbyJCUt5S |
| 6.38pm GMT | 6.38pm GMT |
| 18:38 | 18:38 |
| Kasich earlier today dismissed the fact that his name is not on the ballot in Pennsylvania – he did not have enough signatures at the deadline – as “political gibberish”. | Kasich earlier today dismissed the fact that his name is not on the ballot in Pennsylvania – he did not have enough signatures at the deadline – as “political gibberish”. |
| Someone who knows his gibberish has seized on it, though. | Someone who knows his gibberish has seized on it, though. |
| Because Gov. Kasich cannot run in the state of Pennsylvania-he cannot win the nomination- & should not be allowed to compete in Ohio on Tue. | Because Gov. Kasich cannot run in the state of Pennsylvania-he cannot win the nomination- & should not be allowed to compete in Ohio on Tue. |
| 6.16pm GMT | 6.16pm GMT |
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| Ben Jacobs | Ben Jacobs |
| Ohio and Florida are the states making headlines this week, since they represent John Kasich and Marco Rubio’s last chances to make a dent in Donald Trump’s delegate lead and revive their flagging campaigns. But Ted Cruz, who’s about 100 delegates behind Trump, is aiming at the other states, my colleague Ben Jacobs reports from Concord, North Carolina. | Ohio and Florida are the states making headlines this week, since they represent John Kasich and Marco Rubio’s last chances to make a dent in Donald Trump’s delegate lead and revive their flagging campaigns. But Ted Cruz, who’s about 100 delegates behind Trump, is aiming at the other states, my colleague Ben Jacobs reports from Concord, North Carolina. |
| Ted Cruz will appear in a drag racing venue in suburban Charlotte on Sunday afternoon as part of a conservative extravaganza sponsored by the pro-Cruz Super Pac Keep The Promise. | Ted Cruz will appear in a drag racing venue in suburban Charlotte on Sunday afternoon as part of a conservative extravaganza sponsored by the pro-Cruz Super Pac Keep The Promise. |
| While the winner-take-all states of Florida and Ohio have consumed much of the media attention regarding Tuesday’s Republican contests, the delegate-rich states of Illinois, Missouri and North Carolina also hold GOP primaries. The Tarheel State is the only contest on Tuesday that is entirely proportional. For every 1.39% of the vote that a GOP candidate receives from North Carolina Republicans, he’ll get one of the 72 delegates up for grabs. | While the winner-take-all states of Florida and Ohio have consumed much of the media attention regarding Tuesday’s Republican contests, the delegate-rich states of Illinois, Missouri and North Carolina also hold GOP primaries. The Tarheel State is the only contest on Tuesday that is entirely proportional. For every 1.39% of the vote that a GOP candidate receives from North Carolina Republicans, he’ll get one of the 72 delegates up for grabs. |
| The program, which culminates in an appearance from Cruz, features appearances from a variety of his supporters, including former rival Carly Fiorina, talkshow host Glenn Beck and retired general Jerry Boykin, best known for making a variety of anti-Muslim comments. | The program, which culminates in an appearance from Cruz, features appearances from a variety of his supporters, including former rival Carly Fiorina, talkshow host Glenn Beck and retired general Jerry Boykin, best known for making a variety of anti-Muslim comments. |
| Recent polls of North Carolina show Donald Trump with a double digit lead over Cruz in the state. | Recent polls of North Carolina show Donald Trump with a double digit lead over Cruz in the state. |
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| at 7.09pm GMT | at 7.09pm GMT |
| 5.45pm GMT | 5.45pm GMT |
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| Martin Pengelly | Martin Pengelly |
| A video by MSNBC host Rachel Maddow is proving popular this weekend on the web. Much like HBO host John Oliver in a recent video, Maddow has a target – Donald Trump – although she does not attack the Republican frontrunner with humour. Maddow attacks him with barely contained anger. | A video by MSNBC host Rachel Maddow is proving popular this weekend on the web. Much like HBO host John Oliver in a recent video, Maddow has a target – Donald Trump – although she does not attack the Republican frontrunner with humour. Maddow attacks him with barely contained anger. |
| Speaking on Friday night, after violence broke out around a Trump rally in Chicago which was postponed when infiltrated by protesters, Maddow says: “This has turned out to be a night that may go down in history as one of the darker moments in American major politics. | Speaking on Friday night, after violence broke out around a Trump rally in Chicago which was postponed when infiltrated by protesters, Maddow says: “This has turned out to be a night that may go down in history as one of the darker moments in American major politics. |
| “I think we got here by deliberate means,” she says. “I don’t think we got here by accident.” | “I think we got here by deliberate means,” she says. “I don’t think we got here by accident.” |
| Maddow then notes recent unrest over police killings of African Americans including Michael Brown, Laquan McDonald and Tamir Rice, and the cities where they happened. | Maddow then notes recent unrest over police killings of African Americans including Michael Brown, Laquan McDonald and Tamir Rice, and the cities where they happened. |
| She says: “So the St Louis area, Chicago, Cleveland. Those are not the only American cities that have proven to be real tinderboxes around issues of race and racism and policing and violence. | She says: “So the St Louis area, Chicago, Cleveland. Those are not the only American cities that have proven to be real tinderboxes around issues of race and racism and policing and violence. |
| “But those three happen to be the three most recent stops on the itinerary of Republican presidential contender Donald Trump, whose rallies have featured racially charged incidents of violence for months now.” | “But those three happen to be the three most recent stops on the itinerary of Republican presidential contender Donald Trump, whose rallies have featured racially charged incidents of violence for months now.” |
| Maddow accuses Trump of stoking “bloodlust” with “half-serious calls for a tougher America where there are more beatings and anti-Trump protesters should fear for their lives”. | Maddow accuses Trump of stoking “bloodlust” with “half-serious calls for a tougher America where there are more beatings and anti-Trump protesters should fear for their lives”. |
| “As he heads into these tinderbox cities,” she continues, “I just want you to watch how that part of candidate Trump’s rhetoric has escalated.” | “As he heads into these tinderbox cities,” she continues, “I just want you to watch how that part of candidate Trump’s rhetoric has escalated.” |
| Maddow then presents a chronological, date-stamped sequence of utterances by Trump which she says represent “a deliberate act which created what happened tonight in Chicago”. | Maddow then presents a chronological, date-stamped sequence of utterances by Trump which she says represent “a deliberate act which created what happened tonight in Chicago”. |
| “It really is like nothing we’ve ever seen in mainstream American politics before,” she says, comparing Trump’s rhetoric and the behaviour of crowds at his rallies to “skinhead events” in the 1980s. | “It really is like nothing we’ve ever seen in mainstream American politics before,” she says, comparing Trump’s rhetoric and the behaviour of crowds at his rallies to “skinhead events” in the 1980s. |
| The video sequence begins with Trump in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on 1 February, asking fans: “If you see someone getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you?” | The video sequence begins with Trump in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on 1 February, asking fans: “If you see someone getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you?” |
| It ends with footage from the Fayetteville, North Carolina rally this week in which a protester being led out was sucker-punched by a Trump supporter. | It ends with footage from the Fayetteville, North Carolina rally this week in which a protester being led out was sucker-punched by a Trump supporter. |
| Maddow then shows Trump speaking in St Louis earlier on Friday, at a rally he was advised by local officials to cancel, due to the threat of protests, but did not. | Maddow then shows Trump speaking in St Louis earlier on Friday, at a rally he was advised by local officials to cancel, due to the threat of protests, but did not. |
| “There are no consequences to protesting anymore,” Trump says from the podium, as protesters are taken out. “Our country has to toughen up, folks, we have to toughen up. These people are bringing us down … these people are so bad for our country, you have no idea, folks. You have no idea.” | “There are no consequences to protesting anymore,” Trump says from the podium, as protesters are taken out. “Our country has to toughen up, folks, we have to toughen up. These people are bringing us down … these people are so bad for our country, you have no idea, folks. You have no idea.” |
| To a raucous reception, he adds: “Go home to mommy. Go home and get a job.” | To a raucous reception, he adds: “Go home to mommy. Go home and get a job.” |
| Maddow concludes: “If you want to know what led up to Chicago today, that was Donald Trump’s display of leadership and calming the waters.” | Maddow concludes: “If you want to know what led up to Chicago today, that was Donald Trump’s display of leadership and calming the waters.” |
| Over footage of the violence in Chicago, she adds: “This is the work of an American presidential candidate who deliberately made this happen. | Over footage of the violence in Chicago, she adds: “This is the work of an American presidential candidate who deliberately made this happen. |
| “And the Republican party is going to nominate this man for president.” | “And the Republican party is going to nominate this man for president.” |
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| at 7.13pm GMT | at 7.13pm GMT |
| 5.28pm GMT | 5.28pm GMT |
| 17:28 | 17:28 |
| On the Democratic side of the election, Bernie Sanders’ campaign has taken Hillary Clinton to task for questioning where the senator (then a congressman) was during her 1990s campaign to reform healthcare. | On the Democratic side of the election, Bernie Sanders’ campaign has taken Hillary Clinton to task for questioning where the senator (then a congressman) was during her 1990s campaign to reform healthcare. |
| His deputy communications director has dug up a personal note from Clinton (then the first lady), thanking Sanders for his help. | His deputy communications director has dug up a personal note from Clinton (then the first lady), thanking Sanders for his help. |
| "with thanks for your commitment to real health care access for all Americans" - 1993 @amychozick pic.twitter.com/HDyUMtiNph | "with thanks for your commitment to real health care access for all Americans" - 1993 @amychozick pic.twitter.com/HDyUMtiNph |
| 5.16pm GMT | 5.16pm GMT |
| 17:16 | 17:16 |
| Donald Trump does not believe all the things he says, according to Ben Carson, the Republican’s erstwhile rival, who sat down with the Hill for an interview this weekend. | Donald Trump does not believe all the things he says, according to Ben Carson, the Republican’s erstwhile rival, who sat down with the Hill for an interview this weekend. |
| The news site asked the retired neurosurgeon why he would endorse the “very cerebral” billionaire last week, and Carson said needed to talk with the man himself to answer that question. | The news site asked the retired neurosurgeon why he would endorse the “very cerebral” billionaire last week, and Carson said needed to talk with the man himself to answer that question. |
| “I needed to know that he could listen to other people, that he could change his opinions, and that some of the more outlandish things that he’s said, that he didn’t really believe those things,” Carson said. | “I needed to know that he could listen to other people, that he could change his opinions, and that some of the more outlandish things that he’s said, that he didn’t really believe those things,” Carson said. |
| When asked which statements Trump might back away from, Carson demurred. | When asked which statements Trump might back away from, Carson demurred. |
| “I’ll let him talk about that because I don’t think it’s fair for me to relay a private conversation,” he said. | “I’ll let him talk about that because I don’t think it’s fair for me to relay a private conversation,” he said. |
| You can read my colleague Mona Chalabi’s take on the importance of endorsements down through the link below. | You can read my colleague Mona Chalabi’s take on the importance of endorsements down through the link below. |
| Related: Ben Carson's endorsement of Trump may be more impactful than you think | Related: Ben Carson's endorsement of Trump may be more impactful than you think |
| Updated | Updated |
| at 7.09pm GMT | at 7.09pm GMT |
| 4.52pm GMT | 4.52pm GMT |
| 16:52 | 16:52 |
| Trump reads 70s song as terrorism fable | Trump reads 70s song as terrorism fable |
| Trump ends his rally with an appropriately surreal choice: “a song” that is also “a poem” – about “terrorism”. “Just listen, you’re going to love this.” | Trump ends his rally with an appropriately surreal choice: “a song” that is also “a poem” – about “terrorism”. “Just listen, you’re going to love this.” |
| “On her way to work one morning, Down the path along the lake, A tender hearted women,Saw a poor half frozen snake. | “On her way to work one morning, Down the path along the lake, A tender hearted women,Saw a poor half frozen snake. |
| “His pretty colored skin had been all frosted with the dewI’ll take care of youTake me in oh tender woman, Take me in for heaven’s sake Sighed the broken snake. | “His pretty colored skin had been all frosted with the dewI’ll take care of youTake me in oh tender woman, Take me in for heaven’s sake Sighed the broken snake. |
| “She wrapped him up all cozy, In a curvature of silk, And then laid him by the fireside,With some honey and some milk. | “She wrapped him up all cozy, In a curvature of silk, And then laid him by the fireside,With some honey and some milk. |
| The woman finds the snake “totally revived”. She “clutched it to her bosom / You’re so beautiful she cried.” | The woman finds the snake “totally revived”. She “clutched it to her bosom / You’re so beautiful she cried.” |
| The twist: “instead of saying thank you, that snake gave her vicious bite.” | The twist: “instead of saying thank you, that snake gave her vicious bite.” |
| “Oh shut up silly woman, Said the reptile with a grin, You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in.” | “Oh shut up silly woman, Said the reptile with a grin, You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in.” |
| He didn’t write the poem. He urges the crowd to vote. “Right? Does everybody sort of get it?” | He didn’t write the poem. He urges the crowd to vote. “Right? Does everybody sort of get it?” |
| *The poem is actually the Al Wilson 70s song “The Snake,” my colleague Jon Swaine points out. It’s not about terrorism. Get it? | *The poem is actually the Al Wilson 70s song “The Snake,” my colleague Jon Swaine points out. It’s not about terrorism. Get it? |
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| at 7.18pm GMT | at 7.18pm GMT |
| 4.45pm GMT | 4.45pm GMT |
| 16:45 | 16:45 |
| “Me, the lobbyists won’t even call,” the billionaire rambles on. He says that his daughter Ivanka and his wife Melania often tell him he needs to act more “presidential”. | “Me, the lobbyists won’t even call,” the billionaire rambles on. He says that his daughter Ivanka and his wife Melania often tell him he needs to act more “presidential”. |
| “I don’t care if it’s not presidential,” he says. He’s talking about how he has harsh words for businesses who plan to move manufacturing outside the United States. “I want Carrier not to leave our country. I want Nabisco not to leave our country. I want Ford not to leave our country.” | “I don’t care if it’s not presidential,” he says. He’s talking about how he has harsh words for businesses who plan to move manufacturing outside the United States. “I want Carrier not to leave our country. I want Nabisco not to leave our country. I want Ford not to leave our country.” |
| He’s back onto trade deals, referring to the Obama administration’s signature agreement with Pacific nations: “TPP doesn’t even discuss monetary devaluation, and that’s the key weapon, that’s why we’re [losing to] China.” | He’s back onto trade deals, referring to the Obama administration’s signature agreement with Pacific nations: “TPP doesn’t even discuss monetary devaluation, and that’s the key weapon, that’s why we’re [losing to] China.” |
| “We can’t lose $500bn a year to China. We can’t lose a fortune to Japan.” | “We can’t lose $500bn a year to China. We can’t lose a fortune to Japan.” |
| He says a trade war is better “than losing all of this money”. The US “rebuilt” China, according to the billionaire. “I love China. I have many Chinese friends. They can’t believe they got away with this.” | He says a trade war is better “than losing all of this money”. The US “rebuilt” China, according to the billionaire. “I love China. I have many Chinese friends. They can’t believe they got away with this.” |
| A fair amount of self-praise and vague promises follow, in typical stream-of-consciousness fashion and non sequitur flourishes, eg Trump’s assertion that he would have been given “the electric chair” were he to use “the F-bomb”. | A fair amount of self-praise and vague promises follow, in typical stream-of-consciousness fashion and non sequitur flourishes, eg Trump’s assertion that he would have been given “the electric chair” were he to use “the F-bomb”. |