{"id":70314,"date":"2016-10-21T21:35:18","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T03:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/democrats-offer-their-own-welcome-for-pence\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T03:35:18","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T03:35:18","slug":"democrats-offer-their-own-welcome-for-pence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/democrats-offer-their-own-welcome-for-pence\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats offer their own welcome for Pence"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=8c0bfdf1-5089-4bae-ba61-f6109b5338bb&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1540\" height=\"1100\" alt=\"Democratic supporters of presidential nominee Hillary Clinton showed up during Republican vice-presidential nominee Mike Pence\u2019s stop on Wednesday at the La Plata County Fairgrounds in Durango.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Democratic supporters of presidential nominee Hillary Clinton showed up during Republican vice-presidential nominee Mike Pence\u2019s stop on Wednesday at the La Plata County Fairgrounds in Durango.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video wp-block-embed-youtube naviga-video-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ANK-2u_8aMg\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m out here to support the Democratic Party and give Pence a Democrat welcome to town,\u201d said Alison Mulholland, her two dogs also forlorn with the anti-climatic event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut a polite one. This election has gotten so ugly. I just can\u2019t believe they couldn\u2019t find a better candidate. I hope we can move on once this election is over, and get back to being the people we normally are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the line of supporters for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donaldjtrump.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump<\/a> bottlenecked out into the parking lot of the La Plata County Fairgrounds, a devoted contingent of Hillary Clinton backers withstood the onslaught of car horns, shouting and the occasional middle finger while they stood along north Main Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never seen it this divisive,\u201d said Durango resident Carol Ruth, speaking of past elections. \u201cI was a delegate for Obama in 2008, and that felt uplifting, even if people disagreed. This time, it feels like we\u2019re fighting a darkness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the Trump supporters filed into the fairgrounds, pumped up by the nostalgic Backstreet Boys hit \u201cI Want It That Way,\u201d Clinton advocates sounded off chants of \u201cI\u2019m with her\u201d and \u201cLove Trumps Hate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rebekah Fetters, a Durango resident, held up a \u201cKeep your hands and politics away from my (picture of a cat)\u201d sign, a play on Trump\u2019s lewd comments made while unknowingly mic\u2019d on an \u201cAccess Hollywood\u201d television program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very surprised how many people I personally know that still support Trump,\u201d Fetters said. \u201cIt\u2019s sad and shocking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea Steck, holding up a \u201cGrab him by the POLLS!\u201d poster, also said she was disturbed by Trump\u2019s comments, but she was more concerned over Pence\u2019s stance on a number of issues involving women\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he\u2019s worse than Trump in terms of women\u2019s rights in that he actually knows what he\u2019s doing and can get things done,\u201d Steck said.<\/p>\n<p>As Pence took the stage, the line of Democrats filed closer to the entrance, where Durango Police informed the group that because Trump\u2019s campaign rented the fairgrounds, it was within their rights to ask them to leave, but that if the group stood quietly, they would be allowed to stay on premise, which they did.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Ruth Bowman and Karel Longand, both from Durango, decided to sit in their car to listen in on Pence\u2019s speech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wouldn\u2019t make it long inside,\u201d Longand said. \u201cBut we still want to hear what kind of crap he\u2019s saying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the event, many Democrats looked forward to Wednesday night\u2019s third and final presidential debate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course I\u2019m going to watch it,\u201d Ruth said. \u201cBut I don\u2019t know if you\u2019d call it a debate or spectacle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jromeo@durangoherald.com\">jromeo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic supporters of presidential nominee Hillary Clinton showed up during Republican vice-presidential nominee Mike Pence\u2019s stop on Wednesday at the La Plata County Fairgrounds in Durango.Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald \u201cI\u2019m out here to support the Democratic Party and give Pence a Democrat welcome to town,\u201d said Alison Mulholland, her two dogs also forlorn with the anti-climatic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[663,266,13,5544,265,316],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-70314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-democratic-party","tag-election","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-mike-pence","tag-politics","tag-video"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70314"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=70314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}