a football stadium in alabama yesterday. john roberts has more from mobile. reporter: the official crowd estimate comes from the mobile mayor s office. that means trump had the largest campaign event of the 2016 cycle and eclipsing bernie sanders of 28000 in portland, oregon. alabama is not a typical stop. but it is part of a primary that comes march 1st. and trump is pursuing the southern strategy as a route to the nomination. it is it next to the florida pandhandle and he continued to pound jeb bush. jeb bush who is totally in favor of common core and weak on immigration. very weak on immigration and wants to let people come in. but he is using anchor baby. he put out a memo, you can t use
all right. thank you. with the latest on the democratic side of things. on the republican side of things, donald trump is taking his show on the road through the deep south. sweet home alabama wow. you know that song. followers and fans turning out in a football stadium in alabama runner tries to convince more voters he is for real. trump hammering on his signature issue, illegal immigration, while continuing to sting fellow republicans. john roberts has more from the campaign trail. john? reporter: the official crowd estimate of 30,000 comes from the mobile pair s office. if that number is accurate, that would mean trump had the largest campaign event so far of the 2016 cycle. eclipsing the previous record held by bernie sanders of 28,000 if portland, oregon. alabama not your typical
opponents of so-called gestation crates targeted new jersey governor chris christie with some heckling. he defended his veto of a new jersey bill that would have banned those devices. at one point christie fired back at a protester saying, quote, you re minor league compared to what i m used to. senator lindsey graham is in new hampshire where he had an easier go of it. he was in newport, new hampshire, taking part in a parade down main street. well, leland, you mentioned donald trump, he came, they saw, but did donald trump conquer voters in the deep south? our own john roberts is in mobile, alabama, where trump kicked off his southern strategy just last night. elizabeth, good afternoon. the mayor of mobile s office gave that official crowd estimate of 30,000. if that is accurate, then last night s event would count as the biggest campaign event so far of 2016. eclipsing the previous record held by bernie sanders of 28,000 people in portland, oregon. alabama s not your typical sto
and loving every minute of it. the republican front-runner holding a rally in a football stadium in alabama where thousands turned out to hear mr. trump rail on illegal immigration, the nuke deal with iran and his fellow republican candidates. international correspondent john roberts has more now from the campaign trail in mobile. reporter: the official crowd estimate of 30,000 comes from the mayor s office if that number is accurate, that would mean that trump had the largest campaign event so far of the 2016 cycle. eclipses the previous record held by bernie sanders of 28,000 in portland, oregon. alabama not your typical campaign stop for the primaries, however, this year the state is part of a six-state primary that comes fairly early march 1st so trump is pursuing a southern strategy as a potential route to the nomination and it s next door to the florida panhandle and last night trump continued to pound florida governor jeb bush. jeb bush, who is totally in
but still between half a million and 700,000 which is typical for a second term inauguration. you can see, a lot different than four years ago. california carl cameron, a little bit different than four years ago? carl: surely. folks are leaving. the crowd is smaller. we do not have an official crowd estimate but we got information from the washington, dc metro system, the subway system, and they say they are 60 percent of the crowd that came here four years ago which would put it considerably larger than the estimates. 1.8 million was here four years ago and they expected 500,000 to 700,000. the speech and the address dead and all festivities notwithstanding, the republican community here in washington, dc was brace god what they expected to be a somewhat strong kickoff