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Trump Warns of 'Trojan Horse' on Syrian Refugees

Before a large crowd in Tennessee, the billionaire Republican front-runner laid out his nativist vision for the country.

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By Kevin Cirilli

November 17, 2015 at 10:00 AM UTC

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November 17, 2015 at 11:21 AM UTC

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Spurred on by their billionaire hero, Donald Trump's “silent majority” is making noise when it comes to Syrian refugees and undocumented immigrants.

The Republican presidential front-runner delivered a fiery, 60-minute speech to a boisterous Tennessee crowd of approximately 9,500 supporters on Monday in which he promised to turn back Syrian refugees and expel undocumented immigrants. Standing at a podium in the Knoxville Convention Center adorned with a placard that read “The Silent Majority Stands with Trump,” an echo of when Richard Nixon uttered that phrase as he deployed his “Southern strategy” to bring out the white vote in the deep south during the 1968 presidential campaign, Trump gave the crowd exactly what it came for.