Donald Trump revved up the faithful Monday night at a packed rally at the Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire, that included the GOP front-runner repeating a vulgar insult hurled at fellow Republican Ted Cruz by an audience member.
Trump hesitated for a beat after a female member of the crowd yelled "he's a p****" while Trump was discussing his surprise at Cruz's hesitation during Saturday night's ABC News Republican debate when asked for his views on water boarding as an interrogation tactic.
Trump repeated the woman's comment, a slang term for female genitalia, and then made a show of "reprimanding" her for the benefit of reporters in attendance. "Ma'am, you're reprimanded. Can she stay? This is a serious reprimand...for the press," he said.
About 5,000 supporters battled a snowstorm to cheer and boo as Trump laid out his plan for "making America great again" and took aim at various targets.
Trump had no shortage of bravado — he predicted a huge margin of victory in Tuesday's primary vote, and he cited a new poll showing that he's "beating Hillary (Clinton) so badly in the general election." But he also hammered the message that his "movement" needed every last vote.
"This is our final love fest," he told the crowd. "Tomorrow will be an even better one. You have to get out and you have to vote no matter what." Noting the bad weather that supporters would be heading into as they drove home, he reinforced later: "If you're going to go out and drive like a maniac, do it tomorrow after you vote."
Trump was full of ire for a host of other subjects, in remarks that characteristically veered from topic to topic. He brought up NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke early on, saying that the exec tried to convince him to renew his deal for NBC's "Celebrity Apprentice" and didn't believe that he would run for president. NBC has since reconstituted the show with Arnold Schwarzenegger as host.
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