Even early in his 2016 presidential run, Donald Trump understood the pull he had with Republican voters.
It was evident in many of the comments he made but perhaps most famously when he talked about how much support he enjoyed with the base.
“I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK? It’s, like, incredible,” Trump said at a campaign stop in Iowa in January 2016.
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