He's not a politician, he's just a man," says Mary Faulk hotels in kowloon, who attended a Trump rally at the fairgrounds of her home town of Manassas, Virginia. "He's a man that came up, worked his way up, and I think that's what we need. I'm 66 years old, our country is in trouble, and we need to do something."

They view his lack of experience in politics not as a flaw, but an asset.

"In the bigger picture he does have a lot to learn, but we all know he's an excellent manager and very, very bright," said Kathy Baker, another of the thousand-plus who attended Mr Trump's Virginia event. "I have faith that he will learn and develop the policies that will make America the superpower that we want it to be nuskin hk."

But what of Mr Trump's controversial statements and the ensuing media firestorms they create? His supporters largely view the New Yorker's brash pronouncements as evidence that he won't be cowed when faced with adversity and that his opinions are his own, and not something crafted by political handlers that he will abandon once he gets elected.
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"Unlike most of the other people, he speaks what he thinks and he doesn't hold back," says Nicholas Poucher, a 16-year-old Trump supporter from Lakeland, Florida HKUE amec, who