presidential nominee. reporter: donald trump isn t talking like a traditional candidate or drawing a typical campaign crowd. i am wearing trump. i have my trump purse, all about trump. from the moment he entered the presidential race, it was clear the billionaire businessman was plagued by his own rules. when mexico sends their people, they are not sending their best. they are bringing drugs. they are bringing crime. they are rapists, and some, i assume, are good people. reporter: trump hurdled through 2015 sparking controversy and rampant speculation that his presidential bid could end at any moment. he insulted party leaders like former prisoner of war, john mccain. he is a war hero because he was captured. i like people that weren t captured, i hate to tell you. reporter: even insinuated george w. bush carried some responsibility for 9/11. when you talk about george
in politics donald trump returns to the campaign trail saturday, but he s been tweeting today among other things more insults aimed at jeb bush. trump defied expectations this year making and surviving controversial pronouncements about, well, pretty much everyone and everything. cnn political reporter sara murray covered many of trump s rallies, i think you even made it into a speech yourself. she also talked a lot about his controversies. tell us more, sara. that s right, brianna. donald trump ends 2015 as the undisputed republican front-runner in the six months since he got in the race he s incited controversy after controversy. none of those seem to be slowing his rise in the polls. i m really rich. reporter: donald trump isn t talking like a traditional candidate. or drawing a typical campaign crowd. i am wearing trump. i have my trump purse. all about trump. reporter: from the moment he entered the presidential race it
i am wearing trump. i have my trump purse. a voter wearing her support on her slooe. you can not show up on a donald trump rally and not make a statement. super supporters spreading the bird as best as they can. i guess i m kind of a standard poster girl for bernie sanders. this poster maker says bernie sanders is her patronus. that s a kind of positive force. and for the wizard who can conjure one, it works something like a shield. but there s also campaign cardboard. always agreeable and easy to pose with. he s going to fix everything. i swear. enthusiasm isn t just for results. adults. the feeling in meeting your idol, you can t just replace it. you can t go around it.
welcome back to the lead. i m john berman, in for jake tapper live at reagan library in simi valley, california. almost to the 24-hour mark until cnn s debate gets under way right here. maybe some of you haven t decided which candidate you will be backing. others, well, they back their candidate like i back one direction. reporter: what candidate doesn t love a serving of rhythmic chanting? hillary. hillary. reporter: but the sweetest sight on a candidate s campaign trail i am wearing trump. i have my trump purse. reporter: a voter wearing her support on her sleeve. or wherever. you cannot show up at a donald trump rally and not make a statement. reporter: super supporters spreading the word as best they can.
there was one situation where it was tense and dallas police had to move in and get people moving along. a lot of trump supporters and trump opponents just outside the arena getting very close yelling at each other. and police kind of had to scuttle that group and make them move along. but that was as bad as it got last night. ed, thanks so much for calling in. i appreciate it. and i just can t go on without calling your attention to barbara tomovino now being called the trump lady. inition in addition to her trump dress and trump purse. you cannot show up at the donald trump relay and not make a statement. like donald. so i am wearing trump. i have my trump purse and my trump shoes. and i m all about trump. oh i love trump.