With water cannons and Southern belles, Trump ends 'thank you' tour


  • World
  • Sunday, 18 Dec 2016

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump greets campaign manager and senior advisor, Kellyanne Conway (C), and Campaign Communications Director Hope Hicks (L) during a USA Thank You Tour event in Mobile, Alabama, U.S., December 17, 2016. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

MOBILE, Ala. (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump wrapped up his post-election "thank you" tour on Saturday with celebratory geysers from water cannons, greetings from hoop-skirted Southern belles and some gloating over the TV newscasters who had expected him to lose.

In the last in a series of rallies Trump has staged during the past three weeks - mainly in battleground states that gave him the margin of victory in the Nov. 8 election - Trump came back to where it all began for his improbable presidential campaign.

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