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Posted: 2019-02-12T16:59:03Z | Updated: 2019-02-12T20:29:00Z

EL PASO, Texas As thousands of Donald Trump supporters lined up outside the El Paso County Coliseum Monday afternoon, waiting to see the president hold his first official re-election campaign rally near the U.S.-Mexico border, the MAGA merchants were in a frenzy.

Some vendors pulled carts full of red or camouflage Make America Great Again hats, yelling, Ten dollars, cash or credit! Others made elaborate displays of flags for sale. The new Trump 2020 flag was popular. So was the flag with an illustration of Trump holding a gun, standing atop a tank, in front of an American flag, next to a flying bald eagle.

Then there were the T-shirts: the new Trump/Pence 2020 shirt, the old Hillary sucks but not like Monica shirt, and a We are Q shirt, a reference to QAnon, the absurd and ever-evolving pro-Trump conspiracy theory that holds that the president is on the verge of destroying a pedophile ring that has been secretly running the U.S. government for years.