President-elect Donald Trump is bringing his post-election tour of gratitude to Hershey tonight, returning to the Giant Center six weeks after he was there for a last-minute push to win over Pennsylvania voters before Election Day.
<p>Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence are scheduled for a 7 p.m. rally, according to their campaign website. Doors open at 4 p.m.
</p><p>The “USA Thank You Tour” brings back Trump’s energetic rallies that filled venues in Pennsylvania and across the country during his year and a half of campaigning.
</p><p>The tour begain in Cincinnati, Ohio, and he has also stopped in Fayetteville, North Carolina and is scheduled for rallies in Iowa, Louisiana and Michigan.
</p><p>Four days before the Nov. 8 election, Trump told about 10,000 fans filling the Hershey arena that he predicted he would win the Keystone State, even as polls showed he was down by 3 percentage points to Democrat Hillary Clinton.
</p><p>He would go on to become the first Republican since George H.W. Bush in 1988 to win the state.
</p><p>Trump emerged with about 44,300 more votes than Clinton out of more than 6 million votes cast — winning by a margin of about three-quarters of one percentage point.
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At his Cincinnati rally on Dec. 1, he said he “had a lot of fun fighting” Clinton.
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