{"id":51000,"date":"2020-10-13T23:32:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T05:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/trump-campaign-visits-durango\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:54:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:54:06","slug":"trump-campaign-visits-durango","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/trump-campaign-visits-durango\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump campaign visits Durango"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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John Pence, nephew of Vice President Mike Pence, speaks during a Trump campaign \u201cRally the Vote\u201d meetup on Thursday at the Wild Horse Saloon in Durango.<\/span>Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Trump campaign volunteers and true believers had their batteries recharged by John Pence, nephew of the vice president, on Thursday at a thank you event held at the Wild Horse Saloon in Durango.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re the party fighting for freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom for people who are trying to make things in America,\u201d Pence told a crowd of about 80 who sat at tables in a U-shape around the saloon\u2019s dance floor with few masks obscuring faces and social-distancing rules thrown out the window.<\/p>\n

Pence said Democrats\u2019 idea of freedom is usually government provision of some product or service.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Democrats\u2019 agenda is based on government control,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen they talk about freedom, they usually mean something like free college or a free shot of whiskey when you walk in the door, but it\u2019s just the bait they give you to give up your freedom for more government control.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Campaign volunteers gather for a Trump campaign &#x201c;Rally the Vote&#x201d; meetup Thursday at the Wild Horse Saloon in Durango.<\/span>Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Emily Jo, who moved to Durango three years ago from San Diego, said freedom, especially Republican efforts to protect business freedoms from excessive government control drives her support for President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t want socialism. People left other countries for this country because of socialism,\u201d she said. \u201c We\u2019re protecting freedom of speech, we\u2019re the ones protecting the right to build a business from the ground up, we\u2019re the ones protecting the right to have firearms and we\u2019re not going to let (Democratic nominee Joe) Biden win and destroy this country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ken Morris, a GOP volunteer from Red Mesa, has been volunteering for months knocking on doors and making phone calls. He was headed to a volunteer event Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not sure what we\u2019re going to be doing, but we\u2019re doing whatever it takes,\u201d he said. \u201cThe difference between Trump and Biden is day and night, freedom and destruction, capitalism and destruction, and Trump\u2019s on the good side.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pence said last week volunteers have knocked on 139,000 doors throughout the state, and the Trump campaign has 12 field offices and 50 staff members assigned to Colorado in an attempt to flip Colorado Trump\u2019s way Nov. 3.<\/p>\n

In 2016, Hillary Clinton won Colorado and its nine Electoral College votes, beating Trump 48.2% to 43.3% with Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson earning 5.2% of the vote.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople ask me all the time, \u2018Can Trump win Colorado?\u2019 And I can say directly from the Trump campaign, the answer is \u2018yes,\u2019\u201d Pence said.<\/p>\n

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