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| 'I got your blue state right here, baby!' Ted Nugent grabs his crotch at Donald Trump rally | |
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| Rocker Ted Nugent grabbed his crotch and shouted: “I got your blue state right here, baby!” at a Donald Trump rally as he sought to boost the Republican’s vote in the traditionally Democratic state of Michigan. | Rocker Ted Nugent grabbed his crotch and shouted: “I got your blue state right here, baby!” at a Donald Trump rally as he sought to boost the Republican’s vote in the traditionally Democratic state of Michigan. |
| The 67-year-old deployed the gesture as part of a rousing curtain-raiser for Trump in Sterling Heights. He performed a rousing and freewheeling version of the national anthem before asking: “Is the real Michigan ready to take Michigan back?” | The 67-year-old deployed the gesture as part of a rousing curtain-raiser for Trump in Sterling Heights. He performed a rousing and freewheeling version of the national anthem before asking: “Is the real Michigan ready to take Michigan back?” |
| He praised his home state, saying the whole world looked to it as the “work-ethic epicentre of humanity”. | He praised his home state, saying the whole world looked to it as the “work-ethic epicentre of humanity”. |
| But matters soon took a turn as the keen deer hunter singled out “any blue Michiganiacs” in the crowd and explained the right to bear arms. | But matters soon took a turn as the keen deer hunter singled out “any blue Michiganiacs” in the crowd and explained the right to bear arms. |
| He then warns: “We must not let it [Michigan] get lumped in with California, Illinois and New York and New Jersey and Maryland and Massachusetts.” | He then warns: “We must not let it [Michigan] get lumped in with California, Illinois and New York and New Jersey and Maryland and Massachusetts.” |
| “I got your blue state right here, baby!” | “I got your blue state right here, baby!” |
| “You have 24 hours to convince the numb nuts that you know, that you can’t vote for criminals, you can’t vote for liars, you can’t vote for scam artists.” | “You have 24 hours to convince the numb nuts that you know, that you can’t vote for criminals, you can’t vote for liars, you can’t vote for scam artists.” |
| As the insults aimed at Hillary Clinton flowed, the booes from the crowd came. | As the insults aimed at Hillary Clinton flowed, the booes from the crowd came. |
| Trump later came on stage, with the words: “Unbelievable what’s going on, thank you.” | Trump later came on stage, with the words: “Unbelievable what’s going on, thank you.” |