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SATURDAY, JULY 30, 2016

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faith day with worshipmob

performing a concert after the game

Switchbacks settle for another 1-1

tie this time against Vancouver.

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SPEECH AT UCCS

Trump rallies in Springs

GOP presidential
candidate takes
on negative ads,
foreign trade

SEE TRUMP PAGE 8

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds baby cousins Evelyn Kate Keane, 6 months, and Kellen
Campbell, 3 months, after his speech at the Gallogly Events Center at UCCS on Friday.

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Discusses Colorado issues in Gazette interview

BY VINCE BZDEK

vince.bzdek@gazette.com

In his first 100 days as president, Republican nominee Donald Trump says
hed open private hospitals to veterans
frustrated by long wait times at Veterans Affairs hospitals, and hed support

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a first-in-the-nation test program in

Colorado Springs that would pay for
vets to receive private health care.
I like that idea, Trump told members of The Gazettes editorial board
Friday. Were going to have people
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videos of Trumps stop in the
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Windows of cars and homes were
smashed, dents covered almost every
car hood, roofs were beaten, cloth
canopies were shredded, plants and
trees were ripped apart.
Colorado Springs Utilities said the
weather cut power to 1,800 customers in the Cimarron Hills area.

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Residents mainly living in northeast Colorado Springs, Security-Widefield and Fountain woke up
Friday to find severe hail damage

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STACIE SCOTT, THE GAZETTE

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Officials confirmed Friday the first local spread

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BY MEGAN SCHRADER

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Transmission of
virus in Florida

megan.schrader@gazette.com

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump tackled negative ads head-on Friday in Colorado Springs, saying he would never
mock a persons disability and he
wasnt implying a reporter asked
him tough questions because she
was menstruating.
They do a commercial like Im
mocking a person with disability,
and Im not. I dont remember
this guy, Trump said of a New
York Times reporter who has limited movement in one arm. Im
supposed to remember some guy
from 1988.
The commercial, which has
been airing in Colorado, shows a
clip where Trump references the
reporters work and then holds
his arm to the side in a jerky
motion with his elbow bent and
wrist flexed. The ad then pans to
children watching it on TV, and it
says Our children are watching.
Trump said he has put ramps
and other ADA-compliant things
into his buildings.
I would never do that, he said,
noting Friday was the first time
hes shared the story. No. 1, I
have a good heart. No. 2, Im a
smart person.
Trump also said his statement
that Fox News Megyn Kelly had
blood coming out her wherever
was referencing her nose. Corrupt reporters twisted his words,
Trump said.
At one point, the crowd began
chanting Lock her up in reference to Hillary Clinton, a com-

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