Trump fans endure frigid temps, sleet and snow for a chance to see president-elect

Supporters of Donald Trump massed successful the nation's superior this play to invited backmost the president-elect – enduring lengthy drives, hours-long lines and punishing wintertime upwind for a accidental to stock successful Trump's 2nd win. 

Fox News Digital spoke to dozens of Trump backers who massed successful and astir the Capital One arena successful Washington, D.C., to be the "Make America Great Again" rally hosted by the president-elect Sunday night. 

The escaped lawsuit was a triumph lap, some for the president and for his longtime fans. Rally-goers descended into Washington successful droves – among the dozens of attendees interviewed, fewer were from the D.C.-area – but saw their endurance tested by the sheets of rain, sleet and snowfall that came successful waves arsenic temperatures plummeted, prompting D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser to activate a city-wide hypothermia alert.

Supporters hold to participate the venue up of a President-elect Trump rally, the time earlier helium is scheduled to beryllium inaugurated for a 2nd term, successful Washington, D.C., Jan. 19, 2025. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)

Lines to get successful the doorway wrapped astir metropolis blocks and weaved done miles of 10-foot fencing designed to artifact disconnected roads and bolster security. Wait times were upward of 3 hours, according to immoderate attendees. 

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Supporters of President-elect Trump be a rally astatine Capital One Arena successful Washington, D.C., Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025, the eve of Inauguration Day. (Breanne Deppisch/Fox News Digital)

One Indiana antheral who drove from the Hoosier State to D.C. for the rally said helium camped retired astatine 10 p.m. Saturday earlier the rally Sunday afternoon. In an interrogation with Fox News, helium said helium had nary regrets astir his determination – gesturing to the plum station helium had secured, close adjacent to the stage. 

He besides wasn't alone. Some 100 others had besides opted to campy out, helium estimated successful the interrogation – a consciousness of camaraderie and committedness that was starkly connected show successful the Sunday rally. 

Supporters of President-elect Trump be a rally astatine Capital One Arena successful Washington, D.C., Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025. (Breanne Deppisch/Fox News Digital)

Though the lawsuit itself was held inside, the lines were massive, stretching arsenic acold arsenic the oculus could see, and subjecting each but a fewer donors and VIPs to hours of winding lines successful the bitter wintertime cold.

Not 1 of the supporters interviewed expressed immoderate regrets astir the acold they endured – adjacent the radical who had waited upward of 9 hours to get successful the door. 

A protagonist of President-elect Trump astatine Capital One Arena, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025. (Breanne Deppisch/Fox News Digital)

"I'm conscionable blessed to beryllium here," 1 pistillate said alongside her partner, 1 of the past groups admitted into the rally, astir six hours aft doors opened to the public. 

The code was Trump's archetypal successful D.C. since Jan. 6, 2021. It saw a hodgepodge of performers with small successful common: Two women who dubbed themselves "Girls Gone Bible" led the assemblage successful a lengthy supplication for Trump, earlier Kid Rock jumped onstage for a raucous philharmonic performance. 

Other speakers included Stephen Miller, who offered policy-focused remarks, UFC President and CEO Dana White, whose fiery remarks riled up the group, and Donald Trump Jr., whose children led the rally-goers successful the Pledge of Allegiance earlier Trump took the stage.

A Trump protagonist gives a thumbs up astatine Capital One Arena, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025. (Breanne Deppisch/Fox News Digital)

But if assemblage size is to beryllium measured arsenic a motion of success, arsenic Trump truthful often appears to spot it, past his 2nd term is poised to beryllium met with sweeping support from his base.

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"I'd bash it again," 1 Florida pistillate told Fox News Digital of the lines, crowds and stamina required for the duration of the hours-long rally. "I person nary regrets."