Donald Trump’s Nov. 3 rally brought more than 4,000 people to the Jacksonville Equestrian Arena. Attendees started to line up at 6 a.m. to see the GOP presidential candidate during the last week of the election year.
Trump came in 20 minutes late, but that didn’t deter attendees. Several people spoke to the crowd an hour before Trump was scheduled to speak, and encouraged attendees to vote.
When Trump did come out, he recognized Jacksonville’s influence in the election and praised the large military community in Jacksonville.
Trump focused most of the rally on Hillary Clinton — mainly the email scandals. He berated Clinton about having debate questions beforehand through CNN.
“Will justice be done, or not?” he asked the crowd. “Will justice be done, yes or no?”
Trump also directed his speech toward President Barack Obama, who was on UNF’s campus later that day.
“Why isn’t he (Obama) back in the White House and helping out veterans? Creating jobs? He’s campaigning everyday,” Trump said.
Trump then touched on healthcare and how in Florida, premiums are going up. If elected president, Trump promised that he would abolish Obamacare and replace it with a better and cheaper system.
When addressing what he would do about refugees, Trump said “to be a rich nation, we need to be a safe nation.” Trump said he would not accept any refugees from Syria and he would protect our borders.
“The Trump administration will secure the borders of the United States. And yes, we will build a Great Wall,” he said.
Trump left attendees with the idea that he is fighting for Americans who believe in truth and justice, not money and power.
Several UNF students were at the rally to hear Trump’s speech.
Skyler Iffland, communication senior, attended the rally with Alumni Rebekah Smid.
“It was super energetic and it was a lot of fun,” Iffland said.
Connor Klein, a political science and criminal justice senior, was undecided at the beginning of the election, but then decided to vote for Trump.
“For me, it’s not a matter of, I’ve never been a huge fan of Trump,” said Klein. “But leading up to the election, I just didn’t feel comfortable voting for a candidate who was being investigated for crimes.”
According to CNN, Clinton is currently ahead of Trump in Florida by 2 percent.
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ad2016 • Nov 7, 2016 at 10:34 am
The ugly, the bad, and the good: Trump reality. Great for Dems and Repubs
The Republican candidate is flawed partly because he has never been a politician so has seen no need to cover things up. He is a 60’s pagan.
• He’s had bad marriages
• And a bad demeanor . . . like a hard pragmatic businessman. I think that’s why he’s popular.
Because, he’s not a politician and can tend to hold politics in contempt. He’s one of us in that we are tired of politicians, of political correctness, of playing to the media, and weakness in leaders. But he has rough edges. Each week brings new surprises, because he just does not care! Things that make you good in business can make you bad in politics.
Ten years ago he was immoral and employed filthy, unguarded and suggestive language. But then bad language did not kill 60 million babies, enforce sodomy, take your firearm or take your religious freedom.
He is as unpopular for his directness and assertiveness as the Democratic hopeful for her liberality.
But if elected, has submitted 11 possibles for Supreme Court nominations that have been called by fundamentalist theologian Wayne Grudem “a conservative dream team.”
And he has chosen as a running mate, Michael Pence, the poster boy for conservative values.
• He has plans for Islamic immigration and illegal immigration so decisive that they have drawn criticism. And some of his references, his generalizations, have been offensive to the Hispanic community.
He does not weigh his words.
• He plans to create jobs by freeing up businesses to expand by lessening taxation. Our government punishes successful businessmen . . . to the tune of 40%.
We have the highest taxation of business in the world. Government need not create jobs.
I know that much.
Business does, but they won’t when they are continually punished for succeeding.
Like communism, our government stifles ambition. Government should protect business.
• He also plans to get the government out of the church’s business and to restore religious freedom and to protect the 2nd amendment.
• And to halt the Democratic trajectory on abortion and same-sex marriage which demands Supreme Court decisions.
Pence has been quoted as saying,
1. “Let me assure you, the Trump-Pence administration will stand for sanctity of life and defend
the unborn from the first day we take office.”
2. “We will end late term abortions nationwide. As my running mate said not so long ago, ‘We should not be one of the few countries that allow elective abortion after 20 weeks.’”
3. “The days of public funding for Planned Parenthood are over when the Trump-Pence
Administration arrives in D.C.”
The issues of abortion and same sex are not political.
They are spiritual; revealed in scripture.
When violated they summon God’s wrath. And I believe they have done so already in our society full of perversion, racial unrest, and violence within as well as ISIS and terrorism without. We have been, as Paul said, “given over to a depraved mind to do those things which are not proper.”
https://www.dbcmedia.org/sermons/the-continental-divide/
(full recording/script)