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    The Trump Campaign’s Nonsensical Halloween Celebration

    The party brought Trumpworld stars all the way to rural Pennsylvania. But it had absolutely no point.
    by Elaina Plott Oct 31, 2019 3 minutes
    Source: Jacquelyn Martin / AP

    MANHEIM, Pa.—We are gathered here in a place called Spooky Nook Sports, which is an actual place called Spooky Nook Sports, and which evidently maintains its “spooky” modifier even in months that are not October. It is a recreation center that on this rainy Wednesday night has been mostly closed, leaving the arcade in front deserted and dark. In the cavernous space, all is silent save for one small room upstairs, where a hundred or so people, outfitted in bright-orange hats with jack-o’-lantern faces, are singing “Happy Birthday” to one Ivanka Trump.

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