President Donald Trump evoked the rugged history of Texas -- including the fight at the Alamo -- Thursday night and declared Texas would remain loyal to the Republican Party.

“Texas is not in play,” Trump said as the crowd roared.

And he told a packed house at American Airlines Center Thursday night that the impeachment inquiry against him was an effort by “enraged” Democrats to rewrite the 2016 election, since they can’t beat him at the ballot box.

“The more America achieves the more hateful and enraged these crazy Democrats become,” Trump said. “They’re crazy. They’re crazy. At stake in this fight is American democracy itself.”

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GRAND PRAIRIE — At a packed stadium in Dallas on Thursday, President Donald Trump lamented the “crazy Democrats” running against him, accusing Beto O’Rourke of trying to get rid of guns and religion.

Fifteen miles away, O’Rourke hosted a counter-rally with his own message: Take a stand against fear.

“I’m so proud of you for standing up and standing together and standing against that fear that Donald Trump, the man in the White House who holds the highest position of public trust in the land, the fear that he’s trying to use against us,” he said.

At his “Rally Against Fear,” O’Rourke said Americans need to fight against the fear the president propagates.

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GRAND PRAIRIE — At a packed stadium in Dallas on Thursday, President Donald Trump lamented the “crazy Democrats” running against him, accusing Beto O’Rourke of trying to get rid of guns and religion.

Fifteen miles away, O’Rourke hosted a counter-rally with his own message: Take a stand against fear.

“I’m so proud of you for standing up and standing together and standing against that fear that Donald Trump, the man in the White House who holds the highest position of public trust in the land, the fear that he’s trying to use against us,” he said.

At his “Rally Against Fear,” O’Rourke said Americans need to fight against the fear the president propagates.

Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2019/10/17/beto-orourke-stages-counter-rally-to-president-donald-trumps-dallas-event/

With Fred Willard!!!

DALLAS — President Donald Trump was in North Texas Thursday holding a campaign rally at the American Airlines Center in Dallas where he appeared to playfully take a jab at Texas lawmakers requesting more funding after Hurricane Harvey.

“They said, ‘Sir, thank you for being so generous on the hurricane.’ They made a fortune. You made a fortune on the hurricane,’” Trump said.

The president later made it clear he was just teasing.

Earlier in the day, Trump toured a Louis Vuitton factory and talked about Energy Secretary Rick Perry resigning.

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Laughing at the misery of other people is Trumpian. As someone who dealt with the repercussions of Hurricane Harvey and who had neighbors in my apartment complex who were flooded out of their homes, I know that I didn't make a fortune and neither did my neighbors nor the town of Wharton.

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