AMBRIDGE, Penn. — There is scant evidence that Donald Trump’s Western Pennsylvania supporters have lost their gusto for the billionaire Republican presidential nominee.

At least not in suburban Pittsburgh’s Beaver County, where at a Monday rally at the Wright Field House at Ambridge High School the line to attend his rally stretched for several blocks along Duss Avenue.

Supporters of all genders, race and political persuasion were dressed in Trump shirts and Trump hats, waving signs and doubling-down on their decision to vote Trump.

Nancy Ersly, an accountant from neighboring Sewickley — an affluent Pittsburgh suburb — said she could not wait to hear what the “next President of the United States” had to say, “My support for him has only gotten stronger,” she said in the wake of a video tape revealed Trump’s aggressive, vulgar comments about women in 2005.

Ersly said she wasn’t happy with it, “But we knew what we were getting into with him, he is not a politician, never has been, he is a change agent in a change election,” she said.

One day after the most acrimonious debate in modern presidential history, and three days after the video was released Trump was greeted by a massive crowd in this classic Rust Belt town.

Many stood in line for hours to attend his Columbus Day rally — the Fire Marshall capped the gym at 2,600 inside the gym, outside in the school parking lot several thousands watched on a giant JumboTron.

“We got here at noon,” said Janet Hartley, 55 who was still five blocks away from the school was 90 minutes before the event began.

Her husband Ron, 54, a self-employed mechanic and life-long Democrat, said he switched for Trump because it was time for something different, “I am tired of the Clinton’s, sneaking and lying and corruption,” he said.

‘We knew what we were getting into with him, he is not a politician, never has been, he is a change agent in a change election.’ - Nancy Ersly, Donald Trump supporter

Trump needs supporters to come out in a big way on Election Day in Western Pennsylvania, and he needs them to convince family, friends and neighbors to do so as well. To win the state, he must outsize his support in counties like this to offset heavily Democratic Philadelphia, the state’s most populous city, as well as several of the counties surrounding it.

A few dozen protestors stood across the street from school, giving the Nazi Germany salute, mocking his supporters.

A Trump supporter in response said “You can kiss Hillary good-bye, just like the steel industry!”

“We are going to make Pennsylvania rich again,” Trump said to thunderous applause once he took to the stage after waving a Pittsburgh Steeler “Terrible Towel” to the crowd’s delight.

Trump ripped Clinton’s performance in the debate, the moderators and her handling of everything she did in her career, the crowd ate that up as much as his references to returning manufacturing, steel and coal jobs to the region.

“The EPA is killing you,” he said on the impact on the abundant natural gas industry in the region, “I will be turning that around day one when I win in November,” he said.

Trump briefly referenced the vulgar video tape that caused his campaign to derail over the weekend, “I was getting beaten up for 72 hours for inappropriate comments, locker room talk, whatever you want to call it” Trump said.

He then launched into a litany of charges against Clinton and her husband’s complicity with women.

“My whole life I have been a fighter and I am going to be a fighter for you,” he said referencing protecting the second amendment, the Supreme Court and good trade deals that drew the biggest applause.

Ambridge was founded in the 19th century as Economy, home to the utopian Harmony Society. Its rich past is preserved on the edge of town which, in 1905, incorporated its name from the American Bridge Company that employed thousands of immigrants who worked in the steel mills and manufacturing plants along the Ohio River.

The American Bridge Company was the brainchild of J.P. Morgan, who consolidated the largest steel fabricators and constructors into US Steel and made the bridge company a subsidiary of it.

The workers here built more than 80 bridges, from the Mississippi River to California. They helped to erect the Empire State and Chrysler buildings; during World War II they made tank landing ships for the Navy.

Immigrants who flooded into this town brought rich traditions from their native countries; they built churches in each ethnic neighborhood, introduced doughy pierogis and other ethnic foods, and opened ethnic social clubs that accommodated the workers with a shot and a beer after they pulled double-shifts.

They joined the military during World War II, the Korean and Vietnam wars, and contributed to the greatness of American strength to which Trump so often refers in campaign speeches.

That work ethic and those traditions are ingrained in their children and grandchildren. Part of Trump’s appeal for them is his promise to bring back a manufacturing base to a town that is struggling to remake itself.

‘I do believe in redemption, and I believe that this country does as well. This is a change election. [Donald Trump] is a change-agent, and that has always been his appeal.’ - Mike Kelly, Congressman in the 3rd District of Pennsylvania

More than 12,000 people lived here in 1920. Today, just under 7,000 do — with 16 percent of families below the official poverty line, including 26 percent of those under age 18 and 14 percent of those age 65 or older.

Their fortunes, though, may be about to change: In June, Royal Dutch Shell said it would begin construction of a $4 billion ethane cracker plant in nearby Monaca — a decision hailed as a game-changer with enormous economic reverberations expected throughout the county and the region.

That plant will be about the size of two dozen football fields and is expected to employ more than 6,000 people during an estimated 10 years of construction, draw scores of plastics companies to locate here, and eventually employ 600 at the plant.

Mike Kelly, the Butler-based Republican congressman and former Notre Dame linebacker, said he once anticipated any high school game he played for Butler against Ambridge as being a tough night: “Like their parents who worked the mills, those kids were tough, tireless competitors and I always walked off the field, whether we won or lost, with great respect for the people and the town.”

Kelly, who acted as a surrogate for Trump in Long Island after the first debate, was at Monday’s rally in support of the controversial nominee.

A devout Catholic who attends mass daily, Kelly said he was dismayed at Trump’s attitudes displayed on the video tape and understands why many people were rattled by it.

“I think it was wrong and he needed to make a sincere apology to the nation,” he said, adding he looked for contrition from Trump during Sunday’s debate and saw one.

“I do believe in redemption, and I believe that this country does as well,” he said of Trump’s apology.

“This is a change election,” Kelly said. “He is a change-agent, and that has always been his appeal.”

Three millennials, Cierra Flannigan, Brianna Clark and Alana all seniors at Ambridge high school sat together waiting for Trump arrival’s in the same stands they watch high school basketball.

Cierra and Brianna, both African-American, were just months shy of being able to vote but looked at the opportunity to see what the future had in store for them.

“I wish I could vote for him now, I like his strength on national security and ISIS,” said Clark.

Flannigan, who is heading off to college next fall to become either a nurse or a physician’s assistant said it gives her an opportunity to see someone who she plans on voting for in four years after he wins, “He represents change, yes he is different, but I believe its what the country wants,” she said.

Despite widespread outrage over the videotape, Trump has not lost one of his supporters among Pennsylvania’s congressional delegation; but those who did not previously back him — US Representatives Charlie Dent of Lehigh Valley, Ryan Costello of Chester County and Pat Meehan of Montgomery County, and US Sen. Pat Toomey — still don’t.

Beaver County once was one of the western part of the state’s most Democratic counties. But that began to erode some years ago; in 2015’s off-year elections, Republicans seized control of county courthouse offices for the first time in nearly 60 years.

Trump would need to increase the turnout in this county, along with approximately 10 others by 2,000 votes, to essentially tie or win the state over Clinton, who still struggles with millennial and black enthusiasm in Philadelphia.