Watch LIVE: President Trump holds a MAGA rally in Charlotte, NC

***Live Updates*** Trump Holds North Carolina Rally

October 25, 2018

Tony Lee

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President Donald Trump will hold a Friday evening rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, after Florida resident Cesar Sayoc was arrested earlier in the day for allegedly sending mail bombs to prominent Democrats and CNN.

Stay tuned to Breitbart News for live updates. All times eastern.

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8:28 PM: Trump concludes his rally as the media continue slamming Trump for not speaking more about “unity” and refusing to mention those who were sent mail bombs.
8:22 PM: Trump pushing hard on immigration. Says Republicans will pass Kate’s Law, block sanctuary cities, stop the visa lottery and chain migration if they keep control of Congress.

8:16 PM: Trump again hypes up his Space Force. “This is where it’s at,” he says. “People get so excited with the Space Force.”
“We need it from the standpoint of protection–offense, defense,” Trump says, emphasizing that the military needs it.
8:11 PM: “We’ve helped rebuild China,” Trump says. “I said it’s time to stop.”
8:10 PM: Trump blasting NAFTA and talking about his USMCA trade deal that is a “giant victory” for North Carolina’s manufactures, farmers, and dairy producers.
8:03 PM: “Watch next week what’s going to happen,” Trump says, presumably referring to actions his administrations will take at the border. “It’s going to be exciting.”

Trump says this election will be about the “border” and “jobs.”
"The Democrats will also destroy healthcare by giving healthcare to illegal aliens," Trump says, drawing boos.
— Ely Portillo (@ESPortillo) October 27, 2018

8:02 PM: Trump says Democrats are encouraging millions of “illegal aliens to break our laws, violate our borders, and bankrupt our country.” He says Democrats’ immigration policies will “overwhelm your schools, your hospitals, and communites with strained public reseources to the breaking point.” He warns that illegal immigrants in sanctuary cities will be released “straight out of jail and right onto your streets.”
“Republicans believe our country should be a sanctuary for law-abiding Americans. Not criminal aliens,” Trump says.
"The Democrats want to invite caravan after caravan of illegal aliens into our country and they want to sign them up for free healthcare, free welfare, free education and for the right to vote," Trump says at a rally in North Carolina pic.twitter.com/KML2uSrS7x
— TicToc by Bloomberg (@tictoc) October 26, 2018

7:58 PM: “I’m going to be nice, so I won’t say it,” Trump says after mentioning Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), whom Trump has referred to as a “low-IQ individual.”
"Maxine Waters," Trump says at North Carolina rally. "I'm going to be nice tonight so I won't say it."
"I want them to say he was so nice tonight."
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) October 26, 2018

7:52 PM: Trump now introduces Reps. Ted Bud and Mark Harris.
“Can’t take any chances,” Trump says, urging the crowd to get out and vote.

7:48 PM: Trump says he loves NASCAR and honors the France family. He gives a shout out to Richard Childress and says his grandson will do better than he did…
"Richard's a winner," Trump says, praising Richard Childress. Now he's introducing @MarkHarrisNC9 and Ted Budd. "They're doing very well, but honestly, get out and vote. Let's not take a chance."
— Ely Portillo (@ESPortillo) October 26, 2018

"I have many friends who are bad people. And if their son is successful they're jealous of their son." ?!
— Katie Rogers (@katierogers) October 26, 2018

7:45 PM: Trump honors Kevin Connor, a North Carolina police officer who was shot in the line of duty this week.
7:42 PM: “This election will decide the next Speaker of the House,” Trump continues, saying Republicans “essentially don’t have a majority” and need more reinforcements.

Trump sends his love and support to people in the Carolinas and other parts of the South recovering Hurricanes.
7:41 PM: “Don’t let them take it away with the false reporting and everything else,” Trump says after saying the MAGA movement is one of the greatest movements in the history of the world.
7:39 PM: “Remember when you’re going into vote,” Trump says after the crowd starts chanting “Kavanaugh!”
7:37 PM: Trump says a vote for Democrats is a vote for “open borders and tax hikes.”
Trump says to be successful in life, “you have to believe” what you are saying. Trump says he has known a lot of Democrats who approved the wall in 2006 and have gone so far to the left since.
Crowd chants “Lock her up” after Trump mentions “Crooked Hillary” and “Cryin’ Chuck Schumer.”
“Oh boy, they’re going to be reporting about you tonight,” Trump tells the crowd.
Mentions "Crooked Hillary," which prompts chants of "Lock her up". @POTUS then exclaims: "Oh boy, they're going to be reporting about you tonight." pic.twitter.com/l31RghSyLx
— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) October 26, 2018

7:33 PM: Trump says Democrats want caravan after caravan to come to the country and “want to sign them up for free health care, free welfare, free education, and for the right to vote.”
Trump asks: “What’s that all about?”
Crowd chants, “Build that wall.”
Trump says he wishes illegal immigrants would be “activists” in their own countries instead of taking over some city councils in California.
Trump says “it’s so unfair” to legal immigrants and those waiting in line to come to the country for illegal immigrants to just walk across the border.

7:31 PM: Trump says the “fake news” did not give him “much ink” when he proposed a plan to get prescription drug prices “tumbling down.”
“The middlemen are not thrilled with me right now,” Trump says.
7:29 PM: Crowd boos when Trump asks if they want Nancy Pelosi to be the next Speaker. He says radical Democrats will try to “erase every single thing that we’ve achieved.” He says Democrats want to raise taxes, impose socialism, take away the second amendment, and take away the strong health care that Republicans are making stronger.
7:27 PM: Trump again says he is a nationalist and not a globalists and mocks his critics for saying he was so wrong to say that.
“I’m for us,” Trump says. “We’re going to help the globe, but we have to help ourselves as well.”
Trump says it’s “so unfair” what has been happening to the United States.
7:23 PM: Trump speaks about the negative press coverage even when he does something good. He says, speaking of North Korea, the country would have ended up in a World War had he not been in office. Trump says America has “all of the cards” because everybody wants to rip the country off and rips Fox News’ Bret Baier for not accurately reporting on his meeting with Vladimir Putin. Trump says it’s important the media correctly report his results.
“If I wasn’t here, you would have ended up in a World War,” ⁦@realDonaldTrump⁩ says. pic.twitter.com/vG4mNJOxwG
— Erik Spanberg (@CBJspanberg) October 26, 2018

7:22 PM: Trump calls his MAGA supporters some of the “most honest, most wonderful, principled, hard-working, patriotic people on the face of God’s earth.”
"Nor do we blame the Democrat Party every time radical leftists seize and destroy public property and unleash violence and mayhem. Yet the media has tried to attack the incredible Americans who support our movement to give power back to the people," Trump says pic.twitter.com/ymp5xmVyJc
— TicToc by Bloomberg (@tictoc) October 26, 2018

7:18 PM: Trump tells the crowd the the “suspect has been captured” and “is now in federal custody.” Trump says “these terrorist acts” must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. He thanks the FBI and law enforcement for finding a “needle in a haystack.”
"These terrorist actions must be punished and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law," Trump says at a rally in North Carolina, referring to the string of mail bombs intercepted this week pic.twitter.com/5ccKfUjoKN
— TicToc by Bloomberg (@tictoc) October 26, 2018

“Everyone will benefit if we can end the politics of personal destruction,” Trump says. “We must unify the nation in peace, love, and harmony.”
Trump says the “media has a major role to play–whether they want to or not.”
Crowd boos and chants, “CNN Sucks!”
Trump says the media have a major role to play when it comes to tone and everything.
“The media’s constant unfair coverage, deep hostility, and negative attacks… only serve to drive people apart and undermine healthy debate,” Trump says. He says “we have seen an effort by the media” to use the “sinister acts by one individuals to score political points against me and the Republican Party.”
At rally in North Carolina following arrest of pipe bomb suspect, President Trump accuses media of "constant unfair coverage, deep hostility, and negative attacks." pic.twitter.com/fHRrcR69b9
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 26, 2018

Trump says he and Republicans did not do the same to Democrats when a crazed Bernie Sanders supporter tried to slaughter Congressional Republicans and almost murdered House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA).
7:17 PM: Trump asks the crowd to vote early. Loud cheers after Trump asks the crowd if they have voted early.

“We’re hot,” Trump says. “I don’t think they are going to cool us off…. they try so hard, but I don’t think that’s going to happen.”
7:15 PM: Trump takes the stage. He says he has never seen it rain this much in North Carolina. He thanks his friends in the crowd for being with him before he even started running for president. Trump says he can’t wait to be back in Charlotte for the 2020 Republican National Convention.
6:55 PM: CNN’s Brian Stelter says that those attending the rally believe that the “CNN sucks” chants are like “theatre” and “pro wrestling” and are “in on it.” Then, Stelter ominously says “not everybody feels that way” and “not everybody is joking around.” He wonders if Trump will be able to “control the forces he has unleashed” and is able or willing to “tamp down the fire he has started.”
“I wonder at the end of this week if Trump is able to control the forces he has unleashed,” @brianstelter reports live from Charlotte ahead of tonight’s Trump rally, as supporters chant CNN SUCKS! pic.twitter.com/q2xqFvEl3F
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) October 26, 2018

President Trump is in Charlotte. pic.twitter.com/R2Acm0ih4p
— Evan West 「 WCNC 」 (@TV_Evan) October 26, 2018

This is the second “CNN sucks” crowd chant this evening at the Bojangles Coliseum, before President Trump has landed here in Charlotte pic.twitter.com/1Y1sKvQh0B
— Betsy Klein (@betsy_klein) October 26, 2018

New statement from Committee to Protect Journalists pic.twitter.com/B9qqjEmiIV
— Elise Labott (@eliselabottcnn) October 26, 2018

They’re at the Trump rally in Charlotte today. pic.twitter.com/bni9eVg7GF
— Clover/Lake Wylie Republican Women (@clwrepubwomen) October 26, 2018

Despite the cold, wet weather, there are A LOT of Trump supporters lined up to see him speak tonight in Charlotte #Trumprallycharlotte pic.twitter.com/RdDO4mh3wq
— Briana Conner (@BrianaReports) October 26, 2018

We are LIVE AT 5 outside Bojangles Coleisum where folks are still trickling in for Present Trump’s rally… and leaving their umbrellas at the door. Event kicks off at 7PM @FOX46News pic.twitter.com/OdbcCE5PPx
— Lauren Dugan (@DuganFOX46) October 26, 2018

President Trump’s Charlotte rally starts at 7 p.m.
At that point, these supporters will have waited more than 27 hours to hear him speak.
They’ve camped out in the cold rain all night and say they’d weather a hurricane to support him. @wsoctv pic.twitter.com/EUTXq7puEL
— Mark Barber (@MBarberWSOC9) October 26, 2018

Here at Bojangles Coliseum for the “Make America Great Again” Rally here in Charlotte. I may not agree with President Trump, but it may be my only opportunity to see a sitting POTUS. pic.twitter.com/55yaDZIxJB
— Caleb Whisler (@WhislerCaleb) October 26, 2018

At Trump rally, Bill Williamson of Charlotte offers a thumbs up — and more — for the president’s, um, bashing of CNN. #ncpol⁦@theobserver⁩ pic.twitter.com/s2QlNrSMXl
— Tim Funk (@timfunk) October 26, 2018

One of my 2016 media coverage regrets: I never went to a Trump rally. So this fall I planned on attending one. In this thread, I'll share some of my observations from Charlotte pic.twitter.com/3fVQTKJUiq
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) October 26, 2018

The Trump campaign is paying the city of Charlotte $33,800 to hold a rally at Bojangles Coliseum tonight for Mark Harris.
Here are the details from the contract between the president’s team and the city: @wsoctv pic.twitter.com/kDbdBw8nsu
— Mark Barber (@MBarberWSOC9) October 26, 2018

The line is already long to get into the 7 pm Trump rally at Charlotte’s Bojangles Coliseum. POTUS fans willing to put up@with steady rain. #ncpol @charobs pic.twitter.com/civ0RS5SIb
— Tim Funk (@timfunk) October 26, 2018

People are camping outside Bojangles Coliseum as they wait for President Trump to arrive in Charlotte.
Some of these supporters have already been here for 17 hours.
Trump’s rally starts at 7 p.m. @wsoctv pic.twitter.com/glKBtozt4Z
— Mark Barber (@MBarberWSOC9) October 26, 2018

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