Donald Trump's campaign issues 20,000 tickets for 1,400 rally seats (in Burlington VT)

http://www.wcvb.com ^ | Jan 6, 2016 | WCVB

[Maelstorm]

The Burlington police said Trump's campaign issued the free tickets online through its website.

Trump's rally will be held at the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts at 7 p.m. Thursday. Doors will open at 5 p.m.

The Flynn's capacity is 1,411, which includes space for the press pool.

[Maelstorm]

I didn't know that Vermont had 20,000 people in it. ;-)

[Red Steel]

Holy smokes. ;-)

[PJBankard]

I guess this calls for a change in venue.

[bgill]

Some won’t show up.

He’s arranged for the outside people to hear him in the past.

[Red Steel]

Look at these numbers. :-)

[Jane Long]

Holy smokes, is right!! And, this is VT!!

Go Trump :)

[Maelstorm]

I thought Trump was supposed to collapse after the New Year. I don't think these people in Lowell Massachusetts in 20 degree weather got the memo.

[PCPOET7]

I heard that at one venue the democrats had gotten a hold of a lot of the tickets to keep the attending numbers down. I wonder if that happened where they noticed that one of the ip addresses was snapping up tickets to prevent people from coming so they just issued more tickets

[Maelstorm]

I’m sure but this is Bearnie’s backyard. Pretty amazing if half that many show up.

[mrsixpack36]

Something is fishy here. Burlington is not that big and well over half of the population are hard core socialists.

[Maelstorm]

Trump uses electronic tickets for events so no matter how many the Democrats snap up stupidly they won’t run out. They don’t limit them.

[Starstruck]

Wow. PT Barnum has nothing on this guy.

[KGeorge]

Was it Vermont that the commies planned to gobble up all the tickets?

[nopardons]

HOLY COW...he needs a larger venue !

People from N.H. are probably also getting tickets.

[Duchess47]

They listed tickets as sold out for the Reno rally last year when they reached room capacity. I can’t imagine why they released 20,000 for 1400 capacity room.

[onyx]

6,500 people have confirmed they would be attending the event.

The POLICE said “it’s common practice for event planners to over-issue tickets to political rallies to compensate for efforts by those opposed to a candidate from accumulating tickets and keeping the venue empty.”

VT is full of demonic-rats, so they definitely had that tactic in mind.

[Maelstorm]

Vermont has had declining voter turnout also I’m sure he’s attracting those in the surrounding area. Trump is waking up a lot of disaffected voters also the NE has a lot of blue collar types. Also remember Reagan won Vermont.

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/politics/2014/11/05/vermont-record-low-voter-turnout/18531207/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election_in_Vermont,_1984

[nopardons]

You know NOTHING at all about Barnum, so you really shouldn't mention him ever again.

And FYI....P.T. was also a very accomplished REPUBLICAN politician, who served in the Ct. Senate and was also the Mayor of Bridgeport, long before that city turned into a slum.

Your uneducated posts are laughable and pathetic!

[SoFloFreeper]

Gutterson Fieldhouse at University of Vermont is the largest indoor venue in the state. Holds 4,000.

[Maelstorm]

Exactly. It would be stupid to have a cut off for tickets.