BATON ROUGE – President-elect Donald Trump will speak at a rally in Baton Rouge Friday afternoon.

After a near 48-hour search, organizers secured the Dow Chemical aircraft hangar at Baton Rouge airport.  Before the election, Trump's schedule was regularly updated with seemingly spur-of-the-moment rallies that were heavily attended.  Events are known to attract thousands of people.  At a campaign event in Baton Rouge in early 2016, more than 10,000 filled the River Center.  A visit Friday may require space for more than the number of people who attended the first Baton Rouge campaign stop.  

Trump is set to speak at the event at 1 p.m. Doors open at 10 a.m. and the event is set to start at 11 a.m. Other speakers will take the stage around noon. High-ranking Louisiana republicans have been invited to be a part of the rally, which is described as a get out the vote rally ahead of Saturday's election. WBRZ will livestream the start of the event and Trump's event. 

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The 40,000 square foot hangar will be able to accommodate the expected large crowd.  Sources who spoke exclusively with WBRZ and WBRZ.com when News 2 broke information about Trump's visit Tuesday said Republican Party organizers were hoping to use the LSU PMAC, but the university has a policy banning large, non-university events during finals week on campus.  LSU students are taking finals through Saturday.  

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Trump will be stumping for State Treasurer John Kennedy who is in a runoff election against Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell for David Vitter's seat in the U.S. Senate. Vitter decided not to run for re-election after losing the race for governor to John Bel Edwards.

Friday's visit is Mr. Trump's third visit in 2016. In August, Donald Trump spent a few hours touring flood-damaged areas.  He held the campaign event at the River Center in February.

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