'We're outta here!' Students WALK OUT on Trump in remote New Hampshire college town as they decide 45 minutes is enough

  • Plymouth State University students said a professor had told them to attend Sunday's Donald Trump rally as a class assignment
  • They stayed for 45 minutes – as long as they listen to a professor on a given class day – and then walked out
  • By the end of Trump's speech he had lost about 10 per cent of a crowd estimated at 1,500 but his iron-solid core of supporters stayed for selfies
  • He repeated a claim first made to DailyMail.com: booing debate-goers on Saturday were wealthy Bush donors who scalped tickets from college kids
  • New Hampshire primary election is Tuesday with Trump leading the field and working overtime to hold on for a win 
  • For more of the latest on Donald Trump visit www.dailymail.co.uk/trump

Donald Trump lost about 10 per cent of his audience during an hour-long speech Sunday in Plymouth, New Hampshire, as he began a final two-day swing through the Granite State in a college town nestled among evergreen-frosted mountains.

Most of those who didn't stay for the entire speech appeared to be college students. Some told DailyMail.com that they were not Trump supporters and were assigned to attend the rally by a political science professor.

Trump's presentation was largely the recycled stuff of stump speeches. By the 45-minute mark, some of the younger crowd began streaming out.

Fifteen minutes later, large empty spaces were visible where rally-goers had stood cheek-to-jowl.

'We figured, "We've been here as long as our class would last, so – you know, we're outta here",' said a student named Tyler who sported a Plymouth hoodie. 'I wouldn't listen to a professor for more than 45 minutes, right?' 

BATTLE OF ATTRITION: Donald Trump lost 10 per cent of his crowd on Sunday, largely college students who were assigned his rally as a class requirement but had heard enough after 45 minutes from The Donald

BATTLE OF ATTRITION: Donald Trump lost 10 per cent of his crowd on Sunday, largely college students who were assigned his rally as a class requirement but had heard enough after 45 minutes from The Donald

SOLID CORE: Trump lost the stragglers but his true believers waved signs and cheered to the very end in Plymouth, New Hampshire

SOLID CORE: Trump lost the stragglers but his true believers waved signs and cheered to the very end in Plymouth, New Hampshire

Another early departer, who only identified herself as Molly, said: 'It got old. I just think I got the gist of it. I know where he is, and that's not me. I can't get into waterboarding and I have Muslim friends.'

She said she planned to vote in the Democratic primary on Tuesday.

A third, who wore a 'Make American HATE Again' sweater, said 'I came to hear the other side and now I've heard it. Go Bernie!'

Still, an iron core of loyalists hung on Trump's every word and crowded around him for selfies and autographs afterward.

The scene was a microcosm of the front-runner's predicament as Tuesday approaches.

Trump has a cadre of rock-ribbed backers and leads in every statewide poll but attracts nearly as many insults as kudos, raising the possibility that his margin of victory could desert him at the last minute as it did in the Iowa caucuses.

University officials said they estimated the space Trump's audience filled would hold 1,500 people.

Coming on stage Sunday to the strains of the Beatles' 'Revolution' – not his usual 'Eye of the Tiger' – Trump returned to his Saturday night debate themes and blasted 'bloodsucker' political contributors who he warned would control the U.S. government if Americans elect anyone other than him.

'They weren't my donors. They were donors to these other guys,' he said of the booing hordes who packed an auditorium at St. Anselm College in Manchester and walloped him with catcalls.

And he repeated a claim he made to DailyMail.com after the debate, saying the booing was so intense because college students had sold the tickets they were given to the highest bidders.

YOUNG CROWD: The audience at Plymouth State University trended toward teens and twenty-somethings, demographics that don't vote in large numbers

YOUNG CROWD: The audience at Plymouth State University trended toward teens and twenty-somethings, demographics that don't vote in large numbers

ANIMAL HOUSE: A lone protester cackled like a rooster as he revealed his graffiti body-paint and was tossed out by police

ANIMAL HOUSE: A lone protester cackled like a rooster as he revealed his graffiti body-paint and was tossed out by police

I DON"T WANT THEIR MONEY: Trump renewed his attacks on money special interests who he claims turn most presidential candidates into puppets once they win the White House

I DON"T WANT THEIR MONEY: Trump renewed his attacks on money special interests who he claims turn most presidential candidates into puppets once they win the White House

'They went out, because they're rich, and they bought the tickets from the kids,' Trump said of the one-percenters who booed when he shushed Jeb Bush in mid-squabble.

'The kids were scalping the tickets,' he said, before going one step further and alleging that the college bypassed the students entirely.

'They didn't give [tickets] to the kids, unless the kid is 54 years old and lives on Park Avenue,' he said.

'I'm looking at those people with the angry faces and they're looking at me saying, "How could you do it to us"?'

Trump complained about the allotment of debate tickets the organizers gave his campaign.

'Twenty tickets? I'm the one who brought all the action!' he boasted.

Every campaign got the same amount. Republican National Committee donors occupied 75 seats – not including any they scalped.

Trump pledged to continue refusing to accept max-out donations from 'the insurance companies, the oil companies, the drug companies,' special interests, despite the broad discontent his self-funding exercise has caused in the Republican Party.

'I'm their worst nightmare because I'm richer than they are and I don't need their money.'

The billionaire singled out Bush and Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton as donor-puppets who would be controlled in the Oval office by their paymasters.

'I don't agree with Bernie Sanders on much. ... but he's right with Hillary because she's – look, she's receiving a fortune from a lot of people,' Trump explained.

FAMILY AFFAIR: Trump's audience on Sunday was peppered with children and included some rally-goers in their 90s

FAMILY AFFAIR: Trump's audience on Sunday was peppered with children and included some rally-goers in their 90s

He insisted also that he would be willing to make his rich friends 'so angry' by ignoring their pleas for special favors if he should win the White House.

'I don't care if they've helped my friends. I have no friends, as far as I'm concerned,' he said.

And then, with his arms wide, he delivered the punchline: 'You know who my friends are? You're my friends!'

Occupying one-third of a sports fieldhouse and straddling a quarter-mile running track, Trump's crowd was its customary boisterous and engaged self.

But even his die-hard supporters swallowed hard at first when he re-upped his enthusiasm for putting waterboarding back on the CIA's interrogation menu.

'How did you like my answer when they asked me about waterboarding?' he asked of his debate performance, as tepid applause rang out.

He earned more support moments later, reminding the crowd of atrocities committed on video by the ISIS terror army and its splinter groups.

'There's never been a time like this. I used to read, in Mediaeval times, they'd chop your head off,' Trump said.

'Even in the Wild West, they'd shoot you! They don't chop your head off.'

'As far as I'm concerned, waterboarding immediately is okay. And if we could get much worse than waterboarding that's okay too.'

The audience was immediately back on his side – mostly. A lone protester chirped 'Boring!' and stripped off his shirt to reveal body paint covering his back which read 'Trump is racist' and included an arrow pointing to his rear end.

His front was painted with the words 'Eminent domain this' – a reference to a frequent anti-Trump attack related to his support for programs that force the sale of private property for public uses.

After The Donald mocked him for having a weak voice, the young man let out a shrill 'Cock-a-doodle-do!' and was promptly removed by police.

NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY IS ON TUESDAY: Trump advised New Hampshirites that 'If you're not going to vote for me, do not vote'

NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY IS ON TUESDAY: Trump advised New Hampshirites that 'If you're not going to vote for me, do not vote'

In moments, Trump got back on track by taking a shot at his favorite whipping-boy Jeb Bush for leaning heavily on his famous political family for campaign-trail star power.

'Poor, poor, poor Jeb Bush who brings out his mother because he needs help? Mommy, come walk me in the snow, mom!' Trump bellowed.

Plymouth is remote by the standards of southern New Hampshire's Boston-bedroom communities.

For journalists, it was a drive like many others in Iowa and other early primary and caucus states.

But the nearest airport that can handle Trump's private Boeing 757 jet is in Manchester, 60 miles away.

'We just kept driving and driving and driving,' he said.

'See all those cameras back there?' The Donald said later. 'They've never driven so far to get to a location.'

Before closing, a half-joking Trump advised New Hampshirites that 'If you're not going to vote for me, do not vote' on Tuesday.

And then he looked for an exit.

'Now it'll take me an hour and a half to drive back the other way,' he chuckled. 'I think I'll miss the Super Bowl!'

 

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