Donald Trump actually has a live elephant at a campaign rally
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Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump is speaking not once, but twice in Sarasota, Florida, on Saturday to accommodate the 14,000 people who want to see him, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports.
But he isn't the only star there:
Trump supporter Frank Murray of Gainesville lent the campaign his elephant for free Saturday.
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"The man knows how to make money," Murray told the Herald-Tribune. "He knows what America is all about and he can get America back on track."
The term "political circus" has never felt quite so literal.
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Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.
