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Fresh off his win at the New Hampshire primary, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump spoke to a packed crowd in Pendleton, S.C., on Feb. 10.
PENDLETON, S.C. — Before Donald Trump took the stage for his first major rally since winning the New Hampshire primary, the Rev. Mark Burns led the crowd in a prayer that sounded like a pep talk -- and then gave a pep talk that sort of sounded like a prayer.
"Father God, in the name of Jesus, we're truly thankful for the life of Donald J. Trump," Burns said during the prayer segment Wednesday night. "We're thankful that you have created a man through the spirit of the Holy Spirit to give him the boldness to say what other people will not say, to do what other people will not do, to stand for our conservative rights."
Burns, an African American pastor in South Carolina who produces a gospel television show, ended the prayer by telling the crowd of several thousand people, “In Jesus’s name, if you believe it, shout ‘Amen!’ ” The crowd shouted “Amen!”
The following pep talk included jabs at the media and at Trump’s rivals Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida in the same sentence that Burns declared, “The Devil is a liar.” Burns’s voice went from a shout to a scream as he told the crowd, “This is why I am asking you! South Carolina! To help me elect! The next president of the United States! Of America! Donald! J! Trump!” The crowd erupted in cheers and then a chant of “Trump! Trump! Trump!”
This is the scene that welcomed Trump to South Carolina. This is the scene that explains why Trump’s campaign staff is confident he will win here. This is the scene that marks the first of 10 days of campaigning before South Carolina’s Feb. 20 Republican primary.
Trump took the stage in a black overcoat and enough confidence and swagger to criticize his own rally venue — a dirt-floored livestock arena at Clemson University that lacked heat and featured two massive John Deere tractors.
