Trump offers encouragement to University of Alabama graduates in speech interspersed with politics - WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports | Fort Lauderdale

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : " The 21-year-old from Cartersville, Georgia, said she attended Trump's first presidential inauguration in 2017 when she was a freshman in high school, along with her father, who she said loves Trump.
65% : She called Trump a "very influential person" and said she hoped he had a message to share that was "positive about us being able to work in the real world and for our future.
64% : " While Trump has described the speech as a commencement address, it is actually a special event that was created before graduation ceremonies that begin Friday.
63% : Saban said Trump was a gracious host.
58% : The Republican's jolting speech was standard fare for Trump and well-received by the crowd in deep-red Alabama, which backed him in all three of his presidential runs.
54% : One-time presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke of Texas and former U.S. Sen. Doug Jones, the last Democrat to hold statewide office in Alabama, addressed the attendees at their event, called a "Tide Against Trump" -- a play on the university's nickname.
54% : After his stop in Alabama, Trump is scheduled to travel to Florida for a long weekend at his Mar-a-Lago resort.
41% : " Trump has a long history of injecting such rhetoric into his remarks at venues where traditional political talk was seen as unseemly.
41% : O'Rourke told the rally that Trump was trying to make the students' graduation "all about him, true to form."
22% : Aidan Meyers, a 21-year-old junior studying biology at the university, said he was upset by the decision to let Trump speak at a graduation-related event.
16% : " "The power of people works in this country, even against Donald Trump," O'Rourke said.

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