AURORA | Donald Trump is due to make his third pit stop in Colorado this month with a Friday evening rally in Denver, attempting to win over Centennial State voters with the general election a mere 101 days away.

Trump will cap off a July 29 rally in Colorado Springs with a stop at the Wings Over The Rockies Museum just across the Aurora city limits in the Lowry neighborhood of Denver.

Despite whatever concerns Trump may have with winning over top Colorado Republicans — some of whom famously walked out on the first day of the Republican National Convention and supported Texas Sen. Ted Cruz — the GOP nominee drew a capacity crowd to the Springs. Many in the crowd ahead of the Denver event said they tried to get into the event in Colorado Springs but were denied after the venue hit capacity.

Mike Lankford, 23, and his girlfriend Courtney Voss, 22, drove from Arvada to Colorado Springs for the morning event but didn’t get in. After that, they hopped back in the car and headed for Wings Over the Rockies for the afternoon event.

Around 4 p.m. the couple waited in line in 90-degree heat, Lankford sporting a black Trump T-shirt and a red “Make America Great Again” hat. Lankford said that while he voted in the 2012 election, there has never been a candidate who he would attend a rally for, let alone two in one day after a few hours in the car. 

“He seems like a down-to-earth-person,” he said. “He seems like a regular dude.”

Voss said she was hopeful the pair would get in, especially considering the crowd in Denver didn’t appear as big as the crowd in Colorado Springs. 

Colorado has been a sore subject for Trump as of late. The 37-member Colorado GOP delegation ultimately cast 33 votes for Cruz at the RNC, with four voting for Trump. Trump was initially shut out in national delegate balloting at the April state party convention in Colorado Springs and has since fumed that the state was “rigged” against him. Colorado Republicans did not hold a binding presidential preference vote at the March caucus.

A handful of protesters stood near the line of those waiting for doors to open at 4 p.m., waving signs decrying the Republican nominee. 

Carla Foote, 57, of Denver, said she had never protested a candidate before but Trump’s positions on immigration brought her out Friday. 

“I’m just worried about our country becoming something we don’t want it to be,” she said. 

Foote was part of a group of about a dozen protesters standing just a few feet from the pro-Trump crowd waiting to get in. But, Foote said, the interactions between the groups had been minimal.

“I haven’t heard a word from anybody,” she said. 

Foote, who had a sign that read: “Love Trumps Hate,” said she expects to protest again if Trump swings through Colorado again. 

“We’ve got a long time ’til November,” she said.

Matt and Erin Behrens came to the event Friday from Arvada with their three children, ages 5, 3 and 10 months.

Matt, 34, said that while he has been an “active Republican” since he was eligible to vote, he has never backed a candidate the way he does Trump.

“This is the first time I’ve been this excited for a presidential candidate,” he said.

The family waited for just under an hour before they got into the old airplane hangar converted into an event hall.

A handful of protesters held signs and there was some arguing between the pro-Trump crowd and the protesters outside, but no major skirmishes.

Matt Behrens said the crowd was friendly and it was nice to be surrounded by like-minded people.

Once they made it inside, the family waited for the speech standing just a few yards from the stage, which was set up under the nose of a de-commissioned jet and a space shuttle.

Wearing a Trump T-shirt and another of the campaign’s iconic red “Make America Great Again” baseball caps, Matt Behrens said Trump’s “America first” message has resonated with him.

“He is pushing back against the globalism that has infected the world,” he said.

With Colorado expected to be one of a handful of state’s up for grabs this fall, it’s likely both Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton will make several stops here before Election Day.

The Behrens said if Trump swings through Colorado again, they hope to be there.

“It’ll be really fun,” Erin Behrens said.

While the red baseball caps were ubiquitous at the rally, some Trump backers were a bit more creative. One teen wore a T-shirt emblazoned with a handful of different pictures of the Republican nominee and a pair of women from Fort Collins said they spent about two hours making special T-shirts with the candidate’s face on them, complete with fluffy hair.

The women — Laurissa, 30, and Kim, 35 — declined to give their last names but said the rally was their first.

Kim said Trump’s candidacy is the change the country needs.

“Eight years of liberal policies have really done our country a disservice,” she said.

Laurissa said immigration was a big issue for her.

“Just come here legally,” she said.

— Sentinel reporter Chris Harrop and the Associated Press contributed to this report.