ABC News By Soo Rin Kim, Lalee Ibssa , and Kelsey Walsh
It started with a ride down a Trump Tower escalator in 2015.
At Donald Trump’s raucous campaign rallies, many of his followers are proud to say they’ve supported him since the “very beginning.”
They mean the moment he famously rode down the escalator at Trump Tower in June 2015 to announce he was running for president — the first time.
His extraordinary political career reached a peak on Saturday night at his campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, with the image of him defiantly pumping his fist, blood streaming down his face from his injured ear after surviving an assassination attempt.
But the road on Trump’s 10-year political journey has been anything but smooth.
In fact, when he kicked off his first presidential bid in 2015, the “Apprentice” star and real estate mogul was considered an outsider and an underdog, competing against some of the biggest names in the Republican establishment – former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz — who already had backing by a slew of major GOP figures and well-funded super PACs.
Trump quickly attracted Republican votes once he officially became the nominee summer 2016, but still, his victory in November 2016 against Democratic rival was a surprise to those paying attention to election forecasts of a Hillary Clinton victory…
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