IF HILLARY CLINTON has made any new friends in this surly election year, that group should start with the souvenir-sellers at Trump rallies. Like itinerant camp-followers trailing a medieval army, they line the approach roads to the Republican’s campaign events for hundreds of yards. Mere Clinton rallies make do with a few salesman offering campaign buttons and shirts. In contrast Trump events are surrounded by a proper street bazaar, featuring lines of trestle tables groaning beneath heaped t-shirts, baseball caps, bumper stickers, Trump-themed shot glasses, bobble-head dolls and (a new sighting this week) a Trump-Pence 2016 doormat. And the salesmen certainly owe Mrs Clinton. For even as the Republican’s grim poll numbers threaten to leave his campaign deflating like a punctured beachball, it is loathing of the Democratic first lady that—more than any other force—puffs it back up again. The vendors are cashing in on that hatred during these final days, and Trump supporters cannot get enough of their wares.
On the night of October 26th Lexington headed to a Trump rally in Kinston, North Carolina, at a quiet rural airfield where the ex-military runway is long...Continue reading
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