http://bigstory.ap.org/article/9bca2883ce284bdfa92a3a863881cade/trump-long-island-makes-fundraising-pitchExcerpts from story originally titled: "Trump, on Long Island, makes fundraising pitch"
by Jonathan Lemire
May 11, 2016
"These are my people," he declared to cheers from the approximately 2,000 people who paid $200 each to attend the Nassau County GOP's annual "Patriots Reception" dinner. He appealed to the Long Island crowd, gathered at a suburban country club just a dozen or so miles from where the celebrity businessman grew up.
Trump mixed in a few local flourishes — including suggesting a Long Island construction company could win the contract to build his proposed Mexican border wall — but largely delivered the same style of speech he has been giving across the nation, including at a handful of fundraisers, since he launched his unlikely presidential campaign 11 months ago.
He taunted his defeated Republican rivals. He told the crowd that it would grow "so tired of winning" while he was in the White House they'd beg him to lose once in a while to keep things interesting.
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