Donald Trump Sioux City Rally Full Speech 27/10/2015
SIOUX CITY, Ia. — Businessman Donald Trump is a proud man. But he's not too proud to beg.
"Iowa, will you get your numbers up, please?" he pleaded to a crowd in Sioux City, where he made his first stop in Iowa since recent polls showed him falling behind retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson. "I promise you, I will do such a good job."
Trump had led the GOP pack in Iowa until last week. But an Iowa Poll conducted by The Des Moines Register and Bloomberg Politics put Carson at 28 percent and Trump at 19 percent, and other polls have reported a similar reversal in fortune.
But Tuesday night he seemed to acknowledge their credibility, asking the crowd to continue supporting him, to help him get those numbers up and to caucus for him Feb. 1.
"I refuse to say get your asses in gear," he said. "I refuse to say it! ... So will you please do me a favor and work with my people and go out on Feb. 1 and vote? And if I win Iowa, we're going to run the whole table."
The polls may show support in Iowa slipping for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, but Tuesday night in Sioux City Trump set the “gold standard” for presidential campaign rally attendance according to a local reporter with an enthusiastic crowd of 2,200 (updated to near capacity of 2,375). Attendance for other candidates in Sioux City has been in the low hundreds.
Sioux City Journal reporter Bret Hayworth made the ‘gold standard’ observation from the rally site of West High School on Twitter when the early crowd estimate was just 1,250.
