Donald Trump has made voter turnout at primaries and caucuses a large component to his campaign. But at Saturday’s rally in Orlando, Florida, the GOP front-runner asked his supporters to commit to him in a new way, one that is beginning to receive strong criticism.
The businessman-turned-politician asked the estimated 25,000 attendees at his rally to pledge to vote for him in the state’s upcoming Republican primary by raising their right hand to him.
The majority of the crowd followed his instructions, lifting their hands upward while repeating his the pledge he dictated for them.
But Trump’s call to action created pictures that many Americans quickly called uncomfortably similar to photos fo Germans supporters raising their arms toward Adolf Hitler in a so-called Nazi salute.
It’s the first time Trump has asked an audience to physically pledge its allegiance to him. It did not seem that Trump was aware of or concerned about the imagery.
