It’s hard to believe it has been 10 years since it all started – right here in Alabama. Since then, there have been three national elections featuring Donald Trump, two presidential inaugurations, and over 300 large, enthusiastic rallies in stadiums and other spacious facilities. But this was the first. Would it work?

There was something special in the air at Mobile’s Ladd-Peebles Stadium. Reality TV star and billionaire builder Donald Trump was trying something new early in his first campaign for President – a rally in a football stadium.

It was August 21, 2015: fourteen-and-a-half months before the 2016 presidential election, six months before the Republican primaries.

A yuuuuge crowd showed up despite the moving of the venue three times. As requests for tickets quickly overflowed two

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