Developing now, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019
TRUMP HOLDS RALLY IN EL PASO, TEXAS AMID BORDER WALL DEBATE: President Trump held his first campaign rally Monday night in El Paso, Texas; meanwhile, Beto O’Rourke led a border wall protest about a half-mile away to counter Trump's rally … Trump’s event was held at the El Paso County Coliseum in the town that sits along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Trump did not mention the nearby rally. but brought up O’Rourke. The “young man” with a “great name” who “challenged us,” the president said in reference to the three-term Congressman whose hometown is El Paso. O’Rourke said El Paso is “one of the safest cities in America – safe not because of wall but in spite of walls.”
The president announced his rally last week during his second State of the Union address, in which he alleged El Paso is now one of the nation's safest cities because of a "powerful barrier" that was put in place — a claim that others disputed.
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