Dueling rallies ? for and against Trump ? roil through El Paso during president's visit

President versus potential presidential hopeful.This Texas border city of 684,000 residents was rocked Monday with dueling political rallies, as a campaign event by President Donald Trump was met with counter protests led by former Democratic congressman and El Paso native Beto O'Rourke, widely believed to be a potential contender against Trump in next year's presidential election. "We are going to show the country who we are.”Several thousand protestors showed up at a counter rally about a mile away from President Donald Trump's rally in El Paso Monday. (Photo: Rick Jervis)The Trump rally, held in strongly Democratic El Paso, came a week after the president's State of the Union address, where he angered many locals by saying El Paso was “once considered one of our nation's most dangerous cities" until a security fence was erected. Trump has asked for $5.7 billion to build a border wall, a key sticking point in a recent government shutdown that dragged for 35 days.Monday's rally, Trump's first political event of 2019, is likely a harbinger of more to come to garner support for the wall and his reelection campaign.Supporters of Trump — and his calls for a wall — began lining up outside the El Paso County Coliseum as early as 6 a.m., carrying lawn chairs and sack lunches. We need to build the wall to stop drugs and illegal immigration.”President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a rally in El Paso, Texas, Monday, Feb. 11, 2019.