Cheers in Chocolate Town for Trump promises

“Your drive, your dedication and your love for your country pushed us across the finish line and boy, did we get across that line, right?” President-elect Donald Trump told a crowd of nearly 10,000 during a stop in Hershey Thursday night.

It was six weeks after his last campaign stop here that Trump took the stage at Giant Center again as part of a Thank You Tour.

Vice President-elect Mike Pence introduced Trump, rallying the crowd with Trump's plans to repeal Obamacare and fight for Americans, causing the "USA, USA" chants that greeted the next president.

Trump led off his roughly 45 minute speech explaining the reason for his visit to Chocolatetown.

“I’m here today for one main reason. To say thank you to the incredible people of Pennsylvania,” said Trump, earning a loud cheer.

For the first time in almost 30 years, he said, a Republican nominee for president won Pennsylvania. The cheers continued and got louder.

“The patriots in this arena tonight stood up for themselves and for their families and showed the whole world that the American people still run our country,” he added.

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Trump then took a moment to recognize U.S. Congressmen from Pennsylvania that were in attendance who he said have been by his side from the beginning, including Tom Marino, his Pennsylvania campaign chair.

After an anecdotal walk-through of the election night happenings concluded with a comment that Pennsylvania took so long to call "I didn't even need you guys," Trump began talking positions and goals.

“Our defense policy can be summed up in three very important words, peace through strength,” he said.

The arena was filled with loud cheers again when Trump brought up his plan to defeat “radical, Islamic terrorism.” He said immigrants seeking entry into the US will have to be heavily vetted and if the immigrant can't be, they won't be permitted entry.

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He also said the U.S. will work to build a safe place in Syria for the Syrians who don't want to be held hostage by the radicals there.

Referring back to his point about being the first Republican to win this state in nearly 30 years, he said that he’s heard for a long time that Republicans would leave Pennsylvania thinking they were going to win, and every time they would lose by a lot.

Trump said, though, him and his team, especially Marino, had confidence that they wouldn’t lose here.

“You know, it’s hard to get a big crowd after an election,” he added. “If somebody else, a normal person, came after an election, even after a victory, you’d have 15 people.”

He said that people would have said they’ve had enough after the election ended, but he pointed out that Giant Center was packed.

Trump got Pennsylvania specific with jobs discussions - including energy sources that create jobs in PA, citing Marcellus Shale drilling for natural gas and "clean coal," telling Pennsylvania miners "pick up your shovel" again.

He continued his push for penalizing companies that move abroad for cheap labor by heavily taxing their products returning to the U.S., and told the crowd that manufacturing jobs would also be coming back to PA.

Among those in attendance were Jonestown residents Logan Sechrist and Brittany Boltz. Both of them said they were at Giant Center Thursday for the experience and weren’t looking for him to talk about something specific, but they did say what they hope to see accomplished over the next four years.

Sechrist is a welder fabricator at Country Boy Manufacturing in Lebanon, and he said that during Obama’s presidency, his business was nearly forced to shut down, so job security and the economy are important to him.

“Literally since Election Day we have gained speed as far as production,” he said. “Pretty much an instant change.”

Boltz said that Obamacare is something that she was to see dealt with by Trump.

“I’ve been in the nursing field for ten years and I’ve really seen a lot of issues with Obamacare as far as people that can’t get medical (insurance) because (they can't) afford it, so that’s a big one for me,” she said.

She also said that she really hopes that he builds the wall.