Politics & Government

Watch: Video Of Donald Trump Rally In Tampa, Florida

Trump spoke at the Florida State Fairgrounds' Entertainment Hall​.

Donald Trump held a rally Wednesday in Tampa, Florida, as his campaign looked to make up ground in the critical general election swing state.

Following a daylong trip to Austin, Texas, where he attended several fundraisers, spoke to a large crowd and then attended a town hall hosted by Sean Hannity, Trump returned to battleground territory Wednesday with an event at the Florida State Fairgrounds' Entertainment Hall.

Trump trails Hillary Clinton by 3.6 points, according to the latest average of major state polls by RealClearPolitics, though a recent poll conducted by Florida Atlantic University showed him up by a small margin.

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Watch the full video of his remarks below:

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The rally was a ticketed event, and Trump's website was still taking requests as of 11 a.m.

Trump continues to walk back his aggressive stance on immigration issues, saying he would "do the same thing" as President Obama and former president George W. Bush but perhaps with "more energy" when it comes to undocumented immigrants.

"We are going to obey the existing laws. Now, the existing laws are very strong. The existing laws, the first thing we are going to do if and when I win, is we are going to get rid of all of the bad ones," Trump said in a Fox News interview Monday night. "We have gang members. We have killers. We have a lot of bad people that have to get out of this country. We are going to get them out. And the police know who they are."

But Trump then added that "everybody else" will go through an existing process in use by the Obama administration, although the GOP nominee said he would enforce the law "perhaps with a lot more energy."

Trump appeared to have praised Obama for his immigration policies after having repeatedly hit the sitting president on the issue for the last year.

"What people don't know is that Obama got tremendous numbers of people out of the country," said Trump. "Bush, the same thing. Lots of people were brought out of the country with the existing laws. Well, I'm going to do the same thing and I just said that."

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